... the Commune Health Stations (CHS) and established national health programs. Why did the retrenchment paths of these two countries diverge? This article finds that political, economic, and social factors can explain variation across China and Vietnam. Whereas in the 1980s and early 1990s, politics...

... on the ways in which religious and state bodies have responded to populism and geopolitics. Email: [email protected] © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Moldova Bulgaria politics religion refugee crisis Orthodox Christianity In an interview...

...Wojciech Woźniak Sport mega events are the most prominent manifestations of the multidimensional and global interrelation between sport and politics. The purpose of the paper is to present the contrasting cases of two Polish SMEs: UEFA European Championships in football (Euro, 2012) and the bid...

... distrust to most significant political and administrative institutions. * Corresponding author. © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Corruption Trust Slovenia Politics...

...Walter D. Connor A rather consistent picture of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy in Putin's second presidential term emerges from the four works discussed. Elements of authoritarian rule, welcome or at least acceptable to large segments of a public weary of the political and economic...

... (2002) 353 368 Beneath the veneer of reform: the politics of economic liberalisation in Vietnam M. Gainsborough Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Abstract Scholars working on transition countries are generally more hesitant than they used to be about...

...David W. Lovell The citizens of postcommunist states have relatively low levels of trust in their basic political institutions. This paper argues that to consolidate the advances towards civil society and democracy particular attention must be paid to strengthening trust. Trust requires not just...