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The study argues that the structural crisis in EU-Russia relations and their competition in the shared neighbourhood had major long-term implications for the regional dynamics in Wider Europe. The academic reflection of the ongoing processes has, however, been marked by a range of imbalances that conceal some important developments in the region. In particular, three such knowledge asymmetries are pointed out: overwhelming focus on normative ...

Our study on perceptions of corruption consist of a large scale population survey (2,256 citizens and 352 police officers). The results of this quantitative survey show that there exists a significant difference between occupational status groups as well as between police departments in the perception of corruption. Specialized anti-corruption officers are more severe but also more selective in judging the situations compared to other police ...

This study is specifically designed to illustrate the differences between occupational status groups in the perception of corruption. Perceptions of corruption are studied in the present article using a theoretical framework based on Sutherland’s differential association theory. A questionnaire was sent to 2,256 Flemish citizens and 350 police officers. The core of the questionnaire was a set of 15 items describing potentially corrupt ...

This article reports the findings of a multi-method study that explored whether frequency and duration of parental smartphone use in the presence of children is associated with parents' perceptions of quality time and child restlessness, an indicator of difficult child behavior. Additionally, the study explored whether parental perceptions of technoference, respectively time displacement, mediate the association between smartphone use measures - ...

We conducted a survey about the 2014 FIFA World Cup that measured attitudes about FIFA, players, and officials in 18 languages with 4600 respondents from 29 countries. Sixty percent of respondents perceived FIFA officials as being dishonest, and people from countries with less institutional corruption and stronger rule of law perceived FIFA officials as being more corrupt and less competent running the tournament than people from countries with ...

The Spanish pronominalized infinitival construction is characterized by variable singular and plural verb agreement between the perception verb, the perceived participant and the subordinate infinitive. Traditional accounts relate this formal variability to a different reading of the construction, namely a passive (variable singular vs. plural concord) vs. impersonal (always singular) interpretation. This paper argues that variable agreement in ...

Background – Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that has been associated with auditory intensity perception deficits. To date, the audiological and neurophysiological background of these perception deficits is unknown, and it is unclear which levels of auditory intensity perception are involved. Our group aimed to develop a neurophysiological test battery to investigate the role of primary auditory perception, gating and ...