International Journal of Politics & Social Sciences Review (IJPSSR)
ISSN 2959-6467 (Online) :: ISSN 2959-6459 (Print) :: ISSN 2959-6459 (ISSN-L) International Journal of Politics & Social Sciences Review (IJPSSR) is a peer-reviewed & multi-disciplinary online open access journal, which provides the best platform for researchers and scholars all over the world to share the latest findings. Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original and innovative works in all social science fields. The journal focuses on, but not limited to the following…
Democratic governance in the twenty-first century confronts an accelerating legitimacy crisis: citizens increasingly distrust public institutions, technocratic policy processes fail to harness distributed knowledge, and conventional top-down reform cycles are too slow to address compounding social, economic, and environmental challenges. This paper introduces and theorizes the Participatory Policy…
Higher education authorities in Pakistan have been exploring new dimensions, ways, and strategies to make the teaching-learning process effective. Online teaching is one way to address the challenges of physical learning, and a research-based approach engages students by allowing them to investigate comprehensively. Research-based teaching approach in online classes requires teachers to…
The present study focus on effects of social media addiction on sports performance and psychological health of club-level athletes, with a special focus on the mediating role of parental motivation. A quantitative research design was adopted, and data were collected from 231 club-level athletes involved in cricket, football, and badminton in District Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Valid and…
The increasing integration of the artificial intelligence (AI) into the professional environments has transformed the work processes while the raising concerns about the employee well being and the burnout. This study aimed to examine a relationship between the AI usage and a burnout with particular focus on moderating role of the cognitive efficacy among the clinical and organizational…
Political instability remains one of the most enduring features of South Asia’s political landscape. Across the region—particularly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan—periodic governance crises, contested elections, civil–military tensions, polarization, and weak institutional capacity have repeatedly challenged state authority. These domestic conditions do not stay…
With the continued expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative , Chinese enterprises are increasingly operating in culturally diverse environments, where cross-cultural management challenges have become a critical concern. Among these, the effectiveness of Chinese leadership styles in foreign cultural contexts remains insufficiently understood. This research proposes to investigate how…
Public–Private Partnership (PPP) is a long-term contract between private enterprises and governments for providing public assets or services, in which the private sector assumes substantial risk, manages the project, and bears all associated responsibilities and costs. In essence, PPP refers to an agreement between public institutions—either central or local units—and private investors, whereby…
This study identifies three critical issues plaguing the professional development of local Chinese language teachers in Pakistan: the absence of systematic and localized teacher training programs, excessively heavy workloads that impede effective teaching and career growth, and a severe shortage of tailored, context-specific localized teaching resources. Adopting a rigorous mixed-methods research…
The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations in 2015 marked a global commitment to address poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, and governance challenges through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Pakistan adopted this agenda in 2016, integrating the SDGs into its Vision 2025 framework and establishing institutional mechanisms at both the…
This article examined patients’ perceptions of the impact of Tuberculosis (TB) on their socioeconomic lives and analyzed whether effects differ by gender. The data were collected from 100 TB patients through simple random sampling. Chi-square and Kendall’s Tau-b tests were used to examine the association among variables. T he association of patients’ perceptions was found to be significant and…
