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"A century of vampiric lust" : representation of women and power in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation (1992)
2015
Bram Stokerin vuonna 1897 julkaistua Draculaa pidetään nykyään yhtenä kirjallisuuden klassikkoteoksena, ja sen sisältämää symbolismia sekä viktoriaanisen aikakauden kuvausta on analysoitu kirjallisuudentutkimuksen piirissä toistuvasti. On kuitenkin huomattava, että Draculasta on tehty lukemattomia filmatisointeja, jotka kaikki välittävät uudenlaisia representaatioita ja muovaavat alkuperäistä myyttiä. Näitä elokuva-adaptaatioita on tutkittu huomattavasti vähemmän kuin Stokerin alkuperäistä teosta. Tämä tutkimus käyttää lähteenään sekä alkuperäistä Bram Stokerin romaania että Francis Ford Coppolan ohjaamaa filmatisointia (1992), ja se pyrkii tutkimaan eroja representaatioissa näiden kahden t…
How representative are referendums? Evidence from 20 years of Swiss referendums
2017
Direct democracy allows citizens to reverse decisions made by legislatures and even initiate new laws which parliaments are unwilling to pass, thereby, as its proponents argue, leading to more representative policies than would have obtained under a purely representative democracy. Yet, turnout in referendums is usually lower than in parliamentary elections and tends to be skewed towards citizens of high socio-economic status. Consequently, critics of direct democracy argue that referendum outcomes may not be representative of the preferences of the population at large. We test this assertion using a compilation of post-referendum surveys encompassing 148 national referendums held in Switze…
Problemi attuali della valutazione della ricerca giuridica
2016
The present contribution aims at underlying that the research quality assessment, beyond the debate on the functions of its system, is nowadays - even in the field of legal research - a fundamental tool for related public policies. At the same time, the increasing complexity of the evaluation's systems and methods is taken into account, especially with regard to the peculiarities of research in the legal field. Examples thereof may be found in the relationship between theory and praxis, in the importance of vocational training and, more generally, of didactics, as well as in the international dimension of the legal problems and in the growing tendency to provide researches, including the le…
Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration During a PhD Study : A Single-Case Study
2019
The academic-practitioner relationship has been alleged to be subject to various tensions and dualities; the divide between academia and practice has even been characterized as unbridgeable. This paper presents a research case of a long-lasting, successful collaboration between a researcher and senior practitioners during a PhD research process. An intensive single-case study was conducted to describe the unique characteristics of this collaborative process and to analyse and discuss the factors which contributed to the success of the collaboration. The objectives, practices as well as benefits and drawbacks of the collaboration are also described and discussed. Several factors of success r…
An Ethical Perspective on Loot Box Purchasing : Examining Psychosocial Antecedents and the Association with Indebtedness
2023
Loot boxes are popular random reward mechanisms in digital games, attracting players to invest real money to enhance their gaming experiences. Loot boxes share striking similarities to gambling and might contribute to one’s economic strain, but more research is needed on the underlying vulnerabilities and motivational traits in loot box purchasing. This paper examines associations with self-reported increase in loot box purchasing and debt problems during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. International survey data were collected in 2021, consisting of Finnish, Swedish, and British respondents (N = 2,991) aged 18 to 75. Partial least squares modeling was used as an analytical techniqu…
Employees Resistance Within a Knowledge Intensive Firm
2016
The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical basis for understanding the issue of resistance within knowledge intensive firms. The paper initially provides a theoretical investigation identifying the research gap within the literature. The research gap further is explored through an empirical research. Research findings derive from the analysis of 11 in-depth interviews taken from a new media consultancy in UK. Moreover, the findings distinctively support that, staff resistance is beyond previously (traditional) assumed polar distinctions. In that way, the investigation illustrates that, staff resistance combines opposing meanings of their actions. Thus, it is revealed new aspects…
Social innovation in a post-conflict setting : examining external factors affecting social service NGOs
2021
While the study of the influence of external environmental factors on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is well explored in the international development literature, the importance of these factors on NGOs’ transformative roles in a post-conflict development setting remains less understood. Nevertheless, external environmental factors could have a crucial impact on NGOs in such a context, especially when NGOs want to integrate a socially innovative approach into the social services they provide. Using survey data of staff members of social service NGOs from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (N = 120) and applying resource dependence theory, this study identifies three environmental f…
Human Duties and Rights in an Intercultural Perspective
2022
This paper reflects on the possibility of opening new ways of revaluing the role of human responsibilities and duties by establishing a relationship with rights that goes further than a simple correspondence between correlative terms. Approaching the interdependence between the language of rights and the language of duties from an intercultural perspective helps achieve an increasingly broader, but necessarily more complex, consensus. This analysis goes back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which left duties in the background but showed the incipient presence of an intercultural purpose thanks to the work of UNESCO. The final part of the paper is devoted to those international …
Methodological approach for the study of the interaction between waiters and customers through verbal and non verbal resources.
2009
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The need for change in the approach to insolvency of sport clubs in the regulations of the European Football Federation
2020
This study concerns the issues of league regulations related to the legal problem of insolvency of football clubs in the context of licenses to participate in competitions. The study presents a brief description of modern European football, including the phenomenon of financial oligarchization of sport, and uneven redistribution of the benefits of sport. The following section presents the relation between lex sportiva and state law; the legal position and importance of UEFA; licensing system rules for participating in games. Particular attention was paid to regulating the impact of participation in proceedings giving protection against creditors on obtaining and maintaining a license. Attri…