1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452425103321

Autore

Worcester Kenton

Titolo

Violence and Politics [[electronic resource] ] : Globalization's Paradox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-315-02340-7

1-136-70125-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

New Political Science Reader

Altri autori (Persone)

BermanzohnSally Avery

UngarMark

Disciplina

263

Soggetti

Political violence

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Political Theory of the State

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION Violence and Politics; PART ONE: States, Social Groups, and Contentious Politics; CHAPTER ONE Violent and Nonviolent Trajectories in Contentious Politics; CHAPTER TWO Private Armies and the Decline of the State; CHAPTER THREE State Violence and LGBT Rights; CHAPTER FOUR Globalization, Weak States, and the Death Toll in East Asia; CHAPTER FIVE Political Islam: Inclusion or Violence?; PART TWO: Identities, Adversaries, and Democratic Values

CHAPTER SEVEN From Protest to Retribution: The Guerrilla Politics of Pro-life ViolenceCHAPTER EIGHT Violence, Nonviolence, and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; CHAPTER NINE Ethnonational Conflicts, Democratization, and Hate Crime; CHAPTER TEN Economics, Violence, and Protest in Venezuela: A Preview of the Global Future?; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Clash Within: Intrapsychically Created Enemies and Their Roles in Ethnonationalist Conflict; CHAPTER TWELVE Fear and Democracy; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696955003321

Titolo

Nursing homes [[electronic resource] ] : addressing the factors underlying understatement of serious care problems requires sustained CMS and state commitment : report to congressional requesters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2009]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 72 pages) : illustrations, maps

Soggetti

Nursing homes - United States

Nursing homes - Complaints against - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (GAO, viewed Mar. 3, 2010).

"November 2009."

"GAO-10-70."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787001803321

Autore

Golunov Serghei

Titolo

The elephant in the room : corruption and cheating in Russian universities / / Serghei Golunov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : ibidem-Verlag, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-8382-6670-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Collana

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, , 1614-3515

Disciplina

378.1958

Soggetti

Cheating (Education)

Education, Higher - Russia (Federation)

Cheating (Education) - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The problem; 1.2. Existing works on the topic; 1.3. The approach; 1.4. Book structure; 2 VULNERABILITIES OF THE RUSSIAN HIGHEREDUCATION SYSTEM; 2.1. Russian higher education system at a glance; 2.2. Some key system trends of the post-Soviet period; 2.3. Influence of environment; 2.4. Conclusion; 3 CORRUPTION AND CHEATING PRACTICES; 3.1. Conceptualisations; 3.2. Corruption; 3.3. Cheating; 3.4. Consequences; 3.5. Conclusion; 4 COUNTERACTION EFFORTS; 4.1. Strategies and best practices; 4.2. Official efforts

4.3. Academic and student activism4.4. International impact; 4.5. Conclusion; 5 CONCLUSIONS; 5.1. Roots and relative importance of malpractices; 5.2. Damage from malpractice; 5.3. Efficiency of counteraction measures; 5.4. Recommendations; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a long overdue account of the wide range of corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education, including bribery, financial fraud, clientelism, plagiarism, exam cheating, and much more. Serghei Golunov ruthlessly uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favourable ground for such malpractices and evaluates the efficiency of measures taken against



corruption and fraud by various actors. Although corruption and cheating are so wide-spread in most Russian universities that the real value of their diplomas is very questionable, these problems are prioritiz