Number Of Scandals Research Articles

FEELING OF LONELINESS IN CHILDREN: DATA FROM THE SURVEY OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS IN THE PROJECT “CHILDREN WELLBEING INDEX”

The feeling of loneliness is a multiple phenomenon, that affects many sides of children’s wellbeing. In order to realize “Russian Child Wellbeing Index” project since  Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation has been collecting “children’s voices” – the survey data of children at the age - and their parents. This information allows us to talk about wellbeing from six points of view in the domains of education, health, material wellbeing, self-realization, security and social relations. Apart from main questions to indicate domain values, there are some supplementary questions, needed for better and wider understanding of wellbeing. One of them is “How often do you feel lonely?” in children’s questionnaire, and the same one in parents’ questionnaire. So, the report is based on the analysis of   children and their parents’ responses regarding the feeling of loneliness. The main outcome is that there is a stable connection between the regularity of the feeling of loneliness and general children wellbeing. Students, who often feel lonely also think that their classmates threaten them worse, they more frequently encountered with bulling, at home their parents scream at them more often, than in typical families and the number of scandals in their families is also bigger. The main risk factors for loneliness are identifi ed. They are the inability to be heard by parents and adults (to a lesser extent this applies to peers), as well as psychological or even physical violence against a child. Moreover, children’s loneliness relates with such parameters as overall life satisfaction, the presence of their own items and a room, the presence of bulling at school and some others. In comparison with children responses parents’ assessment often belittle the role of positive factors and exaggerate the role of negative features. Especially it is true for the question about relations between the child and family.

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2022

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2022

Cultivating compassion through compassion circles: learning from experience in mental health care in the NHS

PurposeThis paper aims to discuss the importance of compassion in health care and experiences of Compassion Circles (CCs) in supporting it, placing this into the national policy context of the National Health Service (NHS), whilst focusing on lessons from using the practice in mental health care.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual paper is a discussion of the context of compassion in health care and a description of model and related concepts of CCs. This paper also discusses lessons from implementation of CCs in mental health care.FindingsCCs were developed from an initial broad concern with the place of compassion and well-being in communities and organisations, particularly in health and social care after a number of scandals about failures of care. Through experience CCs have been refined into a flexible model of supporting staff in mental health care settings. Experience to date suggests they are a valuable method of increasing compassion for self and others, improving relationships between team members and raising issues of organisational support to enable compassionate practice.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is a discussion of CCs and their conceptual underpinnings and of insights and lessons from their adoption to date, and more robust evaluation is required.Practical implicationsAs an emergent area of practice CCs have been seen to present a powerful and practical approach to supporting individual members of staff and teams. Organisations and individuals might wish to join the community of practice that exists around CCs to consider the potential of this intervention in their workplaces and add to the growing body of learning about it. It is worth further investigation to examine the impact of CCs on current concerns with maintaining staff well-being and engagement, and, hence, on stress, absence and the sustainability of work environments over time.Social implicationsCCs present a promising means of developing a culture and practice of more compassion in mental health care and other care contexts.Originality/valueCCs have become supported in national NHS guidance and more support to adopt, evaluate and learn from this model is warranted. This paper is a contribution to developing a better understanding of the CCs model, implementation lessons and early insights into impact.

What Can the New Vatican Spokesman Do in the Era of Abuse Crisis?

The Catholic Church (Further referred to as “Church” for shortening) has been facing a number of scandals regarding its priests and religious figures for several decades. Therefore, effective measures, considering legal or pastoral changes, and a working communication strategy are necessary to deal with the sad facts and to regain credibility through means of accountability, transparency, and solidarity. The expectations of what the official Vatican media—which has been undergoing multi-layer reform since 2015—is for are changing quickly and dramatically in the era of abuse crisis, possibly even having a wicked character. Among the initial commitments of the curial Dicastery for Communication included the criteria of paying “special attention to situations of hardship, poverty and difficulty”. We shall necessarily ask whether the employees and servants in Catholic Church communication are aware of all the contemporary risks and possible consequences of being resistant to it. The goal of this contribution is to inquire if and how the character of Vatican communication changed in this direction and whether it reacted to the critique and to the doubts made on the level of credibility and accountability. The time limitation is the second half of 2019—since the appointment of the new Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni in July 2019 to November 2019. The article takes into account the official Vatican News website data source and asks how flexibly Bruni responded to the critical situation.

The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis

Abstract As the number of scandals involving politicians in office rises worldwide, the number of studies dedicated to analysing these scandals and their consequences rises as well. In this article, we try to summarise this emerging literature focusing on quantitative studies that use scandal as an independent variable to model its influence on politicians’ electoral results. The analysis finds that scandal-ridden politicians tend to get fewer votes at the ballot box, are more likely to lose elections, and are less likely to win re-election. It also finds that the link between scandal and turnout is unclear; some models indicate that scandals depress turnout, while others report an increase in turnout.

Does Sharing Economy Have a Moral Capital? Comparing Semantic Networks in Social Media and News Media

Sharing Economy organizations appear to enjoy positive moral capital associated with supporting local entrepreneurs, the economy, and the environment. However, they operate in a regulatory limbo allowing them to engage in business practices that would not be permitted in other sectors. Hence a question remains: Does Sharing Economy (SE) have a moral capital? To explore whether the sharing economy has a moral capital, we explored the discussions around Uber after a number of scandals in 2017 in news media and on Twitter. Our findings show that news media play a critical role in developing and maintaining a positive moral capital of Uber, while the general public on Twitter tend to be more negative and do not afford SE much moral capital.

Reforma ključnih kamatnih stopa na tržištu novca i neke implikacije za tržišta kredita

Ongoing reform of key interest rates on the money market is one of the most significant events on financial markets in the world. This is due to the fact that most of the LIBOR rates in different currencies will be discontinued at the end of 2021. Cessation of LIBOR after a number of scandals following emerging global financial crisis in 2008 lead to existence of more benchmark rates constructed as risk-free rates based on transactions, from SOFR in the U.S.A. to SARON in Switzerland. Intention of EU regulators is to replace EURIBOR with ESTR in the future so that ESTR becomes benchmark for EU and EFTA. The last analysis of lenders and borrowers' positions indicates that EURIBOR is satisfactory reformed based on the fact that in its determination data about transaction and expert judgment are included. According to the current prevailed thinking in the banking industry EURIBOR could be continually used. True, not necessarily on the derivatives market, but certainly on the credit and mortgage markets which are particularly related to EURIBOR in eurozone.

Fact Searching in Investigative Reporting in Indonesia: A Case Study of Tempo and Gatra Magazines

Investigative journalism is a new development in the Indonesian press and the study is at infancy. However, news magazines have investigated quite a number of scandals and problems in Indonesia during the Reformation era, post-New Order authoritarian regimes. This research examines fact searching activities at two main news magazines in Indonesia namely Tempo and Gatra in the process of producing investigative stories. This study deploys case study and an in-depth interview in its exploration of identifying specific processes involved in the process of producing investigative stories in these two news organizations. The interview was conducted with six informants including journalists at Tempo and Gatra news magazine, book authors and journalism analysts. The results of the study indicate that news magazines in Indonesia reveal various issues and cases, which are deliberately hidden to the community. The findings also demonstrate that the facts searching process encompasses several styles that effectively complement each other in news narration, especially with the particular concept, attitude, direction and effort to report its best to the society. This suggests that investigative stories in Indonesia news magazines emphasize the originality of news with in-depth coverage based on independent position, free from the influence of other societal entities, government’s pressure, as well as from other interests. Keywords: Investigative journalism, reformation era, news magazine, Tempo, Gatra.

Debunking Brazilian Exceptionalism in its Africa Relations: Evidence from Angola and Tanzania

ABSTRACT From 2003, President Lula heralded a new dawn in Brazil’s expanding African relations. Brazil was claimed to be unlike other exploitative powers because of its cultural, geographic and historic connections; Africa’s true brother. Despite the passing of two decades and a number of scandals, this narrative of exceptionalism remains. Studies on Brazil–Africa relations tend to focus on the Brazilian state as the key, essentially benign agent. Our analysis uses the case studies of Angola and Tanzania to debunk the idea of Brazilian exceptionalism. We demonstrate the significant, overlooked agency of corporations in shaping and implementing Lula’s Africa Policy, and determining its developmentally dubious outcomes. Additionally, the paper shows how political elites in Africa directed Brazilian government and companies into their political and business norms. Thus, Brazil–Africa relations replicated much of the typical economic patterns of the continent’s trade, with oft-controversial and corrupt investment in commodity extraction and infrastructure.

Abuse of Companies: An Introduction

In recent years, there has been a renewed focus on the abuse of the corporate form. The primary focus has been on situations where the corporate form as such has been used in an abusive way (for instance to avoid liabilities, to cover (illegal) acts or to benefit from certain rules), and not so much on abuse practiced within companies (by shareholders, directors, etc.). In some cases, the abuse of companies has experienced much press coverage, such as the Panama Papers, the use of letterbox companies and a number of scandals involving European banks overlooking money laundering. A consequence of these and other scandals is that the reputation of limited liability companies in general suffers. As a reaction to this, over time, the judiciary and legislators have tried to handle such abuse of companies to minimise the damage. In recent years, also the European Union (EU) legislators have been active in this area taking steps to prevent the abuse of companies in the area of money laundering, posted workers, taxation and company law. Given that the topic has re-emerged in the way described, the moment seems ripe for an analysis of how abuse of companies has been addressed over time in order to assess whether the current solutions are sufficient. This is the aim of the book entitled Abuse of Companies and the following introductory chapter gives a brief overview of the book and presents some overall conclusions.

Regulating Finance: Poachers Turned Gamekeepers

Regulating Finance: Poachers Turned Gamekeepers Patrick Riordan SJ Vatican watchers have been surprised recently by a new publication addressing issues of justice in financial affairs. What is surprising is not that the Vatican might express views on such a topic: that has been an essential element in the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching (CST). The novelty is that two different departments of the Vatican administration collaborate in a joint publication. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development have together issued the document with the long but modest title Considerations for an Ethical Discernment Regarding Some Aspects of the Present EconomicFinancial System.1 Why the CDF would engage in such reflection is curious. Normally, this congregation is concerned with ensuring the orthodoxy of doctrine proposed to the faithful for their belief. The other dicastery replaces the former Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (among other bodies), which has traditionally addressed such concerns as ethics in the economy. Why the CDF would now also concern itself with the ethics of finance provokes some questions. Is it to lend weight to the authority of CST on such matters? Is it to reinforce Pope Francis’s agenda of reforming the Vatican’s own banking and commercial practices? Or is it perhaps to underline the urgency of responding to the instability of global financial markets as we approach the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers? The document’s reflection on the volatility of finance markets bemoans the lack of regulation, with resulting financial crises affecting the real economy (§§6, 14, 21). The unscrupulous behaviour of bankers has been revealed in a number of scandals which reached public attention, and sometimes prosecution and/or fines levied on the banks, as for instance the 2011 discovered manipulation of the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), and the marketing of expensive and unnecessary products such as PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) to trusting bank customers. The statement Patrick Riordan Studies • volume 107 • number 428 442 names such examples of abuse reflecting the inadequate regulation of the sector, remarking on the LIBOR manipulation: ‘The fact that this could have happened with impunity for many years shows how fragile and exposed to fraud is a financial system insufficiently controlled by regulations, and lacking proportionate sanctions for the violations which its stakeholders often encounter’ (§27). The repeated demand for more regulation echoes a shrewd comment by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Centesimus Annus, in which he commemorated Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum on its centenary in 1991. The context was the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Defenders of liberal markets were celebrating their triumph over their opponents, the advocates of planned or managed economies, as typified by socialism. Pope John Paul expressly raised the question: ‘Can it perhaps be said that, after the failure of Communism, capitalism is the victorious social system, and that capitalism should be the goal of the countries now making efforts to rebuild their economy and society? Is this the model which ought to be proposed to the countries of the Third World which are searching for the path to true economic and civil progress? The answer is obviously complex. If by “capitalism” is meant an economic system which recognises the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector, then the answer is certainly in the affirmative … But if by “capitalism” is meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of human freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.’2 The Pope’s answer is positive, specifying as a condition that economic freedom must be ‘circumscribed by a strong juridical framework’. What is that strong juridical framework? Is it sufficient that property rights be protected (commonly agreed to be a precondition for the market economy) and that contracts be enforceable? The temptation is to assume that...

Title IX Protections for College Legislative Interns: What Should You Know and What More Can Your Program Do

The #MeToo movement brought new attention to sexual harassment in legislatures. The number of scandals is disconcerting, especially in light of how institutes of higher education (IHEs) send students, particular those in Political Science Departments, to intern in these offices. This article examines what protections are provided for interns by the legislatures and, specifically, looks at the Title IX responsibilities IHEs have in these situations. While, in spirit, Title IX would apply to these environments—it is not clear that IHEs could actually be held liable. We make the case that IHEs should still provide protections and provide details for the types of trainings that could be developed to provide protection to our student interns.

Administration and politics in the shadows: Councilors and officers in Danish local government

The interaction between politicians and officials has been widely discussed, not least because of a number of scandals, which have been seen as proof of a politicization of the role and behavior of officials. This discussion has only been concerned with central government. But local authorities are responsible for much of the welfare state and they have therefore been almost as bureaucratized as the ministries. In fact they have had their share of scandals. Councils do, however, lead a more quiet life – partly because the press shows less interest; partly because of institutional factors. Local authorities are governed by committees and there is a strong culture of consensus. The mayor is elected for four years and cannot be forced from office. Formally the mayor is just a chairman with limited executive responsibilities. In fact, he/she is often the central decision-maker. Officers see themselves primarily as advisers to politicians, less as classic administrators. Although without formal legal status they are in fact perceived as very strong. Backbench councilors, on the other hand, complain of having lost influence.

Scandals and Ethics Reform in the U.S. House of Representatives

This article uses new data to assess the impact of the Office of Congressional Ethics, established in 2009, to investigate ethical misconduct by members of the U.S. House of Representatives. A comparison of the 6 years immediately before reform (2003–2008) and the 6 years immediately after reform (2009–2014) reveals that the number of scandals actually increased by 60% after reform. Although the number of members investigated for malfeasance increased by 220%, the number of members sanctioned remained constant. However well-intentioned the reforms, they failed to stem the tide of scandal because they did not modify members’ incentives. Ironically, the reforms may have contributed to public dissatisfaction with Congress by publicizing investigations of members of Congress.

The effectiveness of combinations of CSR talk and action as strategies for (re)gaining legitimacy

A number of scandals have challenged the social legitimacy of companies. Since corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about the pursuit of public and stakeholder objectives beyond the bottom line...

Fair play? Not so much: Corruption in the Italian football

Not only football is one of the world's most popular sports, but it is also a multi-billion euro global business. Due to its large turnover, football may offer the stage for the commission of a wide variety of misconducts and corrupt activities. Progressively over the last decade, Italian football has severely suffered from a number of corruptive malpractices, in some cases also perpetrated with the aid of organised crime groups. A number of scandals have been put under the spotlight of public opinion, such as the ones of Calciopoli (“City of Football”) and of Calcio scommesse (“Football Bets”). In all, the search for profit seemed to have pushed the game into the background, and from the law enforcement investigations a widespread culture of illegality has emerged. Despite attracting a great deal of media attention and public demise, corrupt practices perpetrated within or through football organisations have seldom been analysed by scholars against the backdrop of relevant criminological perspectives. By drawing on documentary sources (judicial files and media news), this paper shall (1) categorise and describe different modalities and patterns of corrupt deals in the Italian football; (2) examine the findings through relevant criminological theories; and (3) identify systemic opportunities for corruption.

The Beleaguered Ideal: Defending NCAA Amateurism

Amateurism defines a core value of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA is one of the country’s largest and most visible nonprofits that represent over 1000 colleges sponsoring athletic programs. The ideal and NCAA rules around Amateurism have generated a large number of scandals in intercollegiate athletics. Commentators attack amateurism as a hypocritical ideal that does not really exist and rationalizes student exploitation. This article argues the present NCAA definition of amateurism is too narrow and misses the dimension where all students legitimately aspire to use their student experience as preparation for careers. Once the idea of amateurism encompass its own foundations like glory, championship and self-worth and is connected more clearly to being a student, it opens up policies that keep the core ideal intact but address contemporary concerns about exploitation and student welfare. The paper examines the historical and moral foundation of the ideal and defines the ideal as a structure of moral and psychological aspiration that requires a cost and infrastructure to be realized. This reality undermines the NCAA’s narrow conception. In addition actors and forces that surround intercollegiate athletics drive the subversion of amateurism at the points of recruiting, staying in school or leaving. Seeing amateurism as a structure of aspiration can guide conversations on contemporary controversies involved in keeping students in school and addressing the problems involved in the transition from college to paid professional athletics.

Ethical and legal issues in organ transplantation: Indian scenario

In 1994, the Government of India enacted the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) to prevent commercial dealings in human organs. However, a greater number of scandals involving medical practitioners and others in the kidney trade has surfaced periodically in every state in India. The present regulatory system has failed mainly due to the misuse of Section 9(3) of the THOA, which approves the consent given by a live unrelated donor for the removal of organs for the reason of affection or attachment towards the recipient or for any other special reason. Currently in India, approximately 3500-4000 kidney transplants and 150-200 liver transplants are performed annually. However, the availability of organs from brain-dead persons is very low. As a result, live related or unrelated donors form the main source of organ transplantation. Therefore, physicians and policy-makers should re-examine the value of introducing regulated incentive-based organ donation to increase the supply of organs for transplantation and to end unlawful financial transaction.

Blackfriars: The Post Office Magazine : A Nineteenth-Century Network of “The Happy Ignorant”

In 1855, Anthony Trollope, who would serve thirty-three years in the British postal service, addressed the fact that many believed that government offices in general and the Post Office in particular “receive their recruits” from the “idle, the weak in mind, the infirm in body, the unambitious, the jolterheads, the ne’er-do-wells, the puny, and the diseased.”1 While this evaluation was harsh, postal employees did score lower on the civil service exam than most other civil servants. During the mid-to-late nineteenth century, postal employees also found themselves in a number of scandals. For example, between 1873 and 1888, nearly a thousand postal employees were dismissed because of “intemperate habits,” and the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889 revealed a prostitution ring composed of telegraph boys.2 Probably the most damning factor working against postal employees, however, was that the British public literally saw postal employees who were inefficient. Unlike other British civil servants, postal employees had direct, daily contact with the public, and the result was the Post Office became the “public whipping boy of the Departments.”3 Apparently, familiarity can breed contempt. In September 1885, postal servants, specifically those in the Savings Bank department, began to work against such bad press by publishing the Blackfriars Magazine, which was in print for five years.4 Identifying public contempt as the impetus behind the Blackfriars Magazine, however, does not take a reader far. Like any specialist professional press periodical, Blackfriars celebrated the honor, wisdom, efficiency, and all-around goodness of those who served its institution. The magazine, however, seldom ran articles reacting to public outcry against postal employees; it rather strove to create a network of readers and writers who engaged in intellectual and cultural discussions. “Networking” for the Blackfriars’s readers

Real-Time Enforcement of Crime in the Capital Markets

This paper was presented by the Author at the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, England.In the past few years, western countries have experienced a heightened level of concern for capital markets crime – concern that stems, at least in part, from the ever growing number of scandals plaguing our capital markets. Law enforcement around the globe is being pushed to pursue capital markets fraudsters with greater diligence. Key stakeholders are now losing patience and are demanding some real time examples of arrests and prosecutions. Investigators and Prosecutors of capital markets crime also have to deal with key stakeholders who are unsatisfied with the length of time it is taking to bring offenders to justice. They are demanding real-time responses to financial disasters and when dealing with perpetrators caught with their hand in the cookie-jar. In spite of increased resources and new innovative strategies, Law Enforcement often has difficultly in living up to stakeholder expectations. In some countries, there is little or no motivation for third party witnesses or facilitators of capital markets crime to cooperate with police investigations. Additional legislative tools may be necessary.