This thesis is built upon a research project aimed at providing interesting insights into plagiarism in the field of popular Chinese fiction, which has been a controversial issue on the Internet in China for the past decade. ...

Whereas political scandals expose the corrupt nature of a society’s public affairs, media play a central role in publicizing a scandal and influencing public opinion. The summer 2015 garbage management scandal in Lebanon ...

This dissertation challenges conventional approaches in the study of minority integration by looking at the spaces in which integration occurs, rather than at instances of conflict. It develops a framework that considers ...

In the late spring of 2013, Japanese politicians passed a revision to their election laws that essentially unbanned the use of the Internet in electoral campaigns. This dissertation is composed of three independent, but ...

This thesis analyzes the case study of Germany and explains why there is a larger prevalence of church asylum in Bavaria than in other German states. Due to a variety of factors, this research examines how church asylum ...

The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of people to neighboring countries. In Jordan, the government has handled the crisis in an exclusionary way attempting to reduce its impact on the labor market by enforcing an ...

The severe and chronic lag in the empirical indicators for Native American socio-economic development has created, in the words of President Obama, “a moral call to action.” Although collective statistics indicate substantial ...