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Japan is one of the countries with the most frequently changing heads of government in the world. The aim of this article is to examine both the structural and individual causes of this situation by using the example of the short term in office of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide from 2020 to 2021. While such factors as strong ministerial sectionalism in the government, factionalism in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), high frequency of parliamentary and ruling party presidential elections, as well as consensual political culture made it difficult for prime ministers to remain in office for a longer period of time, the electoral and administrative reforms of the 1990s facilitated the heads of government to stabilize the government's social and party base of support. Nevertheless, the usage of the new institutional instruments to remain in power depended on the prime minister's ability to create his/her positive image among voters. This article analyzes why Prime Minister Suga, despite leading a stable ruling coalition in both houses of the parliament and having extensive experience in decision-making process, was unable to maintain the government's initially high popularity and resigned only one year after having formed his cabinet.

Purpose – The main objective of the paper is establishing the characteristics of the Q-Test and EQ‑Score measures as alternative tools for assessing the earnings quality of public companies. Research method – The estimation of the earnings quality was prepared basing on the analytical formulas of Putman et al., and Gullet et al. models. The exemplification research studies were conducted for public companies classified in the WIG‑DIV index of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2016–2020. Results – There are positive relationships of medium strength between the calculated values of the Q-Test and EQ‑Score indicators. In the analyzed research sample, the average values of the Q-Test indicators were generally higher than the average values of the EQ‑Score indicators and were characterized by a greater degree of dispersion. The EQ‑Score is statistically significantly correlated with the discretionary accruals separated using the Jones and Kasznik models, which indicates its potential for predicting the earnings management phenomenon. Originality / value / implications / recommendations – The study is the first example of empirical verification of the usefulness of the Q-Test and EQ‑Score models in assessing the quality of the financial results of public companies operating on the Polish capital market.

Purpose – Digital transformation offers new media of social communication. Starting from this point, the article asks whether this means a chance of survival or development of a new society, and by doing so it refers to 'quantified theory of behaviour' by Alex Pentland. Or, presumably, it opens enormous space for invigilation and social manipulation. Research method – This is a review of literature based on Alex Pentland's publications, and referring to works of David Riesman, Jeremy Rifkin and Shoshana Zuboff. Results – Rather than on technical and systemic issues, the emphasis has been put on a fundamental transformation of social relations, which occurred in the developed countries prior to the digital transformation taking place at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Originality / value / implications / recommendations – This transformation was discovered and described by outstanding authors like David Riesman, Jeremy Rifkin and Shoshana Zuboff. The review of their ideas concludes that digital culture makes existing institutional structures based on agreement weaker while making the inclination to instrumental and amoral re‑building of the collective order stronger.

The modern power of China is based on its traditional sources: the size of the territory and demographics, the scale of the economy, strong army and soft power (culture, values, foreign policy, public diplomacy). China, by building its hegemony, showed that only a state with significant resources is able to be a leader in the modern world. The basic condition is the balanced development of individual power resources, because only then can long-term hegemony in the modern world be achieved and maintained. It is important for the world whether China will gain hegemony by overthrowing the existing world order, or whether it will try to maintain the existing order by building its leadership on its basis.

The main goal of this article is to present the impact of closed administrative- territorial units on the economic development of Russia. Moreover, the paper contains information on the functioning of science cities in the Russian Federation and presents information on the financial results of the company Norylski Nikiel.

Professor Tadeusz Kowalski (1889–1948) corresponded with scholars from practically all over the world. He was interested in the developments of Oriental studies in the Soviet Union. He valued the publications he received from the USSR, as well as all contacts he had with Russian researchers. He sought to cooperate with Alexander Samoylovich (1880–1938) – one of the most eminent Turkologists in the Soviet Union. This goal had been partially achieved. The archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków now hold, catalogued under ref. No. KII-4, j. 174, just three letters from the Russian Turkologist. Despite their small number, these materials are an engrossing source of knowledge on the state of Soviet Turkish studies in the mid 1920s and the Soviet Oriental studies community. These letters are all the more precious – as the author managed to determine – as the branch of the archives at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, where the legacy of professor Samoylovich is kept, has no copies. It is interesting that there are no surviving copies of the letters from professor Kowalski to the Russian Turkologist. The article's purpose is the edition of the letters of Alexander Nikolaevich Samojłowicz – a Soviet turkologist – to Professor Tadeusz Kowalski, including their translation into Polish. These documents constitute a certificate of international academic relations development between scientists from Poland and the Soviet Union in the interwar period.