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Political Science Law 01 NOVEMBER 2026

A Content-Analytical Framework for Examining Upstream Documents in Virtual Spaces

Dr. Hana Tesfaye Bekele

The increasing importance of virtual spaces in governance, institutional coordination, digital communication, and regulatory decision-making has created a need for systematic methods to examine the documents that shape these environments. Upstream documents, including strategic plans, policy directives, institutional guidelines, regulatory…

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Political Science Law 06 NOVEMBER 2026

Everyday Corruption: Mechanisms and Enabling Conditions Identified in Court Decisions

Zamirat Borsiyeva

Everyday corruption, understood here as informal payments and exchanges that arise in ordinary dealings between citizens and public bodies, is seldom visible in official statistics, and its mechanisms are not always easy to separate from related offences such as fraud. This article considers what court decisions can tell us about such mechanisms…

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