Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAnalysis of Intention to Continue Services Among Recruited Voluntary SoldiersKuo-Wei Lin, Chia-Mu Kuan, Chi-Hao LuIn order to attract more promising young people to join the military and enhance combat capability, Taiwan’s Department of Defense is transforming the nation’s military service system from a draft system, which has been in effect for more than sixty years, to an all-volunteer military force system. The government hopes that the new system not only can recruit promising voluntary … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 11 Sep 2012 · 7,484 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Voice of Exit - Towards a Theory of Democratic InconsistencyMarco GoliThe international armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are only the most apparent manifestation of the dilemmas that challenge the European liberal democracy. A much more crucial paradox, as far as certain European countries are concerned, is produced by the inertia of the democratic game it self. That is the construction of religious and ethnic affiliation as the very entrance … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2007 · 7,742 accessesView PDFCite