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Evaluating and Improving the Metropolitan Economic Freedom Index
The Metropolitan Economic Freedom Index (MEFI) ranks cities based on their support of free market enterprise. In its current state, MEFI purports to...
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Economic Freedom and People’s Regard for Education
Using data on 48 countries, this paper finds that people in economically freer countries care more about education. This is probably mainly because...
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The International Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Committee—Challenges and Accomplishments
Established in 1886, the International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world’s largest federation of national, regional, and specialist...
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On becoming the subject of health screening: a case study in ‘Conditioned Freedom’
The paper mobilises a personal experience of participation in a population-based health screen to explore wider aspects of subjectivity, choice and...
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From Security to Freedom— The Meaning of Financial Well-being Changes with Age
Financial well-being is becoming more prominent in policy, research, and the financial sector. However, there is a lack of understanding of its...
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The Academic Freedom Index and Its indicators: Introduction to new global time-series V-Dem data
The Academic Freedom Index is the first conceptually thorough assessment of academic freedom worldwide and a times series dataset going back to 1900....
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TV Consumption Patterns and the Impact of Media Freedom on Political Trust and Satisfaction with the Government
This paper empirically assesses the impact of media freedom on citizen’s trust in politicians and satisfaction with national governments....
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An Alternative Aggregation Process for Composite Indexes: An Application to the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index
Composite indices of economic freedom may constitute a useful and practical guide and a significant source of information for experts in government...
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Academic freedom, the impact agenda, and pressures to publish: understanding the driving forces in higher education
Academic freedom is critical for the sound production and dissemination of new knowledge. However, the growing emphasis that research funders have...
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More than just collateral damage. Ramifications of the pandemic for freedom of the press
Confronted with a situation that was new to everyone, world leaders sought the best way to contain the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. The...
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Parallel Leisure Sport Activities Diversity with Economic, Social and Human Development Indicators
The purpose of this study attempts to borrow the accepted justification of current extant economic, social and human development indicators to give a...
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Understanding Freedom and Freedom as Conflict
What Gannicus expresses here in a joking tone and friendly gesture connects to Oenomaus’ honorific view that the quest as a gladiator can only be...
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The Freedom Party Austria (FPÖ) as the Party of the “Little Man”: The Economic Ideas of the FPÖ as a Topic in Socio-economic and Political Education
Dealing with right-wing populism and right-wing extremism is a determining topic of political education at many school locations. Mostly, the...
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The role of party preferences in explaining acceptance of freedom restrictions in a pandemic context: the Italian case
As a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, several governments adopted disease containment measures limiting individual freedom, especially freedom...
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Does economic misery stifle human development? empirical evidence from Asian countries
This study investigates the impact of economic misery on human development in 32 Asian countries from 1991 to 2022. In addition to the full panel,...
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Does Economic Growth Bound Political Rights in Non-democracies? An Empirical Evaluation
The present paper aims to examine whether the impact of economic growth on political rights/civil liberties depends on the political environment. The...
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Religious Freedom, Civil Rights, and Islam in Spain
Despite legislative attempts to facilitate freedom of religious practice for Muslims in Spain, the current challenges exceed the scope of legal...
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Constraints on Academic Freedom in the People’s Republic of China: A Transnational Issue
Higher education’s moves towards internationalization in China since the 2000s have received enthusiastic support from universities around the world....
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Media in Croatia: from freedom fighters to tabloid avengers
The article provides an overview of the Croatian media landscape and its transformation that has been driven by the processes of democratization,...
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Modeling economic migration on a global scale
We introduce a global-scale migration model centered on neoclassical economic migration theory and leveraging Python and Jupyter as the base modeling...
