Centre-periphery circulation patterns in Ghana’s print media landscape: exploring the underlying determinants by Jacob Nyarko

“…Since there are not enough studies that explore the circulation of print media under Ghana’s fourth republic to show its circulation patterns, this article analyses print distribution figures and views sourced from newspaper firms to examine the situation within the participatory communication and the political economy of the media frameworks. It uncovers that a few newspaper firms have regional offices but do not print in those locations. …”
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Hyperinflation argentine de 1989 : une interprétation post-keynésienne by Jonathan Marie

“…Secondly, this theoretical framework is confronted to economic facts observed in Argentina from the 1970’s to the 1989 hyper-inflationist spurt. The historical political economy analysis allows the spotting of the following sequence: the distributive conflict is highly violent, reshaped several times from the 1970’s onwards. …”
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ADDRESSING DESERTIFICATION TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE PEACE BETWEEN FARMERS AND HERDSMEN IN NIGERIA by Sani Sani Ibrahim

“…The research is situated within the theoretical framework of Political Economy Approach, to explain economic issues as the primary cause of tension and conflict between Farmers and Herdsmen in their struggle for economic survival. …”
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The EU’s neoliberal constitutionalism(s) by Guillaume Grégoire

“…From ordoliberal Ordnungspolitik to new classical macroeconomics and public choice, from Hayek’s ‘constitution of liberty’ to Vanberg’s ‘constitutional political economy’, an institutional agenda has emerged around a number of key tenets: enhancing the competition between jurisdictions through (state and international) federalism; safeguarding the competitive functioning of the market through supra-legislative rules; limiting fiscal policies and disciplining public spending through balanced budget rules; neutralising monetary policy through independent and price stability-oriented central banks. …”
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Local level institutional complementarities in contemporary China by Alexandre De Podestá Gomes

“…This study privileges a political economy definition of institutions (Amable, 2003; Boyer, 1988), and employs the concept of institutional complementarities (Amable, 2016; Aoki, 1994) in order to tackle the institutional arrangements of Nanjing and Suzhou. …”
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Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt<subtitle>The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022</subtitle> by Chiara Valli, Neil Dunne

“…Critical housing and political economy research have shown how, in the past three decades, housing, fiscal and legal reforms have consistently moved the Swedish housing system away from the tenure-neutrality principle in favor of homeownership. …”
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A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by two cases of community network development by Dong Hee Shin

“…<br><b>Results.</b> The political economy of the development process has biased the development toward private interests and away from the public benefit, and toward lucrative services and intra-organizational connectivity and away from community-oriented uses. …”
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How Health Systems World-wide Fail Type 2 Diabetics by Abdo S. Yazbeck, Son Nam Nguyen, Maria-Luisa Escobar

“…The immense and ever-growing health and economic burdens of T2DM should provide all the motivation needed for national and global efforts to counteract the political-economy constraints standing in the way of successful whole-of-system approaches to T2DM.…”
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Restructuring of Rural Governance in a Rapidly Growing Resource Town: The Case of Kitimat, BC, Canada by Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth, Sean Markey

“…Neoliberal public policy shifts include wider changes where the state has become less involved in program and infrastructure investments in resource-dependent communities. Even as this political economy continues to evolve, past neoliberal policy responses continue to restrict local supports, while also failing to provide a comprehensive strategy to guide rapidly changing communities. …”
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Indonesia-US Trade Barrier: A Study on the Halal Certification of Imported Chicken Leg Quarters by Akim Akim, Arfin Sudirman, Januar Aditya Pratama

“…This study uses a mercantilism approach in the global political economy, namely the theory of non-tariff trade barrier from Thomas Oatley. …”
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Reconfiguración del estado colombiano: el difícil balance entre consenso y coerción by Daniel James Hawkins

“…These interactions provide an exemplary illustration of the reconfiguration at multiple levels of the world political economy today.…”
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Political and socioeconomic implications of Classic Maya lithic artifacts from the Main Plaza of Aguateca, Guatemala by Kazuo Aoyama

“…First, combined with the results of analysis of 10,845 lithic artifacts collected in the Palace Group, the elite residential area along the Causeway, and other parts of the site by the Aguateca Archaeological Project First Phase, the data on obsidian artifacts indicate a skewed distribution, suggesting that the rulers of Aguateca controlled the main access to obsidian in the city while the procurement and distribution of obsidian polyhedral cores may have been administered by the royal court of the Aguateca dynasty as part of its political economy. Second, several lines of lithic evidence reinforce the argument advanced by Inomata et al. (2004) that Structure L8-8, a large temple building, was abandoned during its construction toward the end of the Late Classic period. …”
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THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY REPORTAGE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by ISA SA’IDU

“…With the use of the Political Economy of Communication, Framing, Social Responsibility, and Agenda Setting Theories, the paper reviewed relevant literature and established how Nigerian media used their organisations to report the phenomenon of insecurity both for and against the country’s national interest.The study found that many media outlets, both new and conventional, have over the years engaged inan unethical practice that both exacerbates security challenges as well as threatens Nigeria’s corporate existence. …”
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Analysis of the rural community behavior in the Area of Electoral Geography (Case study: Varzaqan county) by Aghil Khaleghi, Hossein Karimzadeh, kuomars Khaodapanah

“…This behavior is in accordance with the categories of "geographical and political characteristics" with the "rational choice theory", and in terms of "individual and social" with "the pattern of political economy (wise reformed approach)". Modeling results also show that the variable "geographical features" and "individual and social factors" are at the "significant" threshold and the variable "political factors" is within the "average" threshold; The quality test of the structural model shows that "political agents" and "social factors" have "strong" values and "geographic features" have average values to determine the predictive power of the electoral model.  …”
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BRICS as a Catalyst for Global Governance Transformation: Beyond Western Perceptions by Dylan Yanano Mangani

“…Scholarship on global political economy and global peace and security governance often depicts BRICS members as emerging powers with relatively limited experience in international leadership. …”
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A Study on the Changes of Urban System Pattern in Markazi Province by Alireza Sayyafzadeh, Mohammad Mireh, Morteza Nodeh Farahani

“…Urban system is spatial visualization of political economy and land management. Thestudyof urbansystems determinesthe distribution andbalance ofpopulation in thecities.According to the importance of urban system, this paper examines the urban system in part of the Iranian territory. …”
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Notes on Post-criticality: Towards an Architecture of Reflexive Modernisation by Robert Cowherd

“…To what extent can considerations of political economy, culture, globalisation, and environmental crisis be translated into the explicit performance criteria and computational parameters? …”
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Guest Editorial: The Gig Economy and Women Workers in the Middle East by Stella Morgana

“…By proposing a collection of original and pioneering research on an understudied topic as applied to specific contexts in the Middle East, the special issue broadens the analysis of the so-called gig economy beyond a mere economic lens, bringing together multi-disciplinary insights and approaches from sociology, political economy and digital anthropology. It shows that online gig work is neither a crystallised nor monolithic dimension. …”
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J. M. KEYNES AND HIS ECONOMIC THEORY: AN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE by S. N. Ivaskovsky

“…The article examines the philosophical and moral foundations of the biggest economist and political philosopher of the 20th century John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), who played an important role in rethinking a number of important provisions of the classical political economy and in creating the ideological and methodological basis of the "Keynesian revolution" and of the new field of economic analysis-macroeconomics. …”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In Africa: Challenges and Prospects by Kennedy Mahlatsi

“…It is noted that Agenda 2030 does not provide political economy approach to understanding the genesis and cycles of poverty and inequality. …”
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