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Academic Circles (academic + circle)
Selected AbstractsIntroduction: Drug Trafficking, Organised Crime, and Public Policy for Drug ControlINTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, Issue 169 2001Michel Schiray This introduction to studies carried out mainly in Brazil, India, and China aims to show the importance, for an understanding of the drug trade and its consequences, of research that compensates for the limitations of information available either in the media or from official specialist institutions. It sketches an overview of current academic activity around the world, noting the undeniable pre-eminence of the United States but also the exceptional efforts made by researchers in some closely involved countries, including Colombia and Italy, and, by contrast, the astonishing lack of engagement on the part of academic circles in most other countries. It selects for discussion some of the results of the various studies which might point the way for further research. It observes that the questions which arise vary considerably depending on the level considered , local, national or international; and identifies some of these. It demonstrates that the drug trade is linked to other criminal activities, and seeks to analyse the forms of organisation which control it. Lastly, it puts forward some basic questions about the potential contribution of research to national and international public policy for control. [source] Women in a Man's World: Gender Differences in Leadership at the Military AcademyJOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 12 2004Matthew J. Morgan This study responds to a deficiency of research on military leadership gender differences in spite of widespread interest in women in the military in policymaking and academic circles of various fields. Although scholarship in the field of women's leadership in recent years has asserted that there are stylistic differences between male and female leaders, there were few major differences in this study of 12 specific areas of leadership rated by 3 types of raters. Of the 36 possible occurrences of a statistically significant gender difference, only 6 manifested themselves in the cadet leader ratings. As a whole, evidence supports minimal gender differences in leadership performance or style in the West Point Class of 1998. [source] Who's Afraid of Eliza Haywood?LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2007Margaret Case Croskery Haywood's status within academic circles is still undergoing the type of canonical redistricting that makes more transparent the ideological tensions within competing standards of literary value. The curious patterns within her reception history, both in her own day and in the present, suggest both how much and how little has changed within commodity politics since the 1700s , when Haywood's publications helped to define the novel as a literary form , and today, when the definition of the ,literary' is once again in productive flux. [source] The empirics of microfinance: what do we know?THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 517 2007Niels Hermes Microfinance has received a lot of attention recently, both from policy makers as well as in academic circles. Two of the main topics that have been hotly debated are explaining joint liability group lending and its implications for reducing information asymmetries, and the trade-off between the financial sustainability and outreach of microfinance programmes. This Feature contains three novel empirical contributions providing new insights with respect to why and how joint liability group lending works. It also contains the first large-scale systematic analysis of the trade-off between financial performance and outreach of microfinance institutions. [source] | ||||||||||