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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

<i>DRD2</i> Ex8 rs6276 Polymorphism and NEO-FFI Personality Traits in Elite Athletes and Controls. [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sci
Recław R   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing shortages and rising rents have increased demands for affordable housing. In this paper, we examine whether electoral constraints can undermine local politicians' incentives to build public housing. Empirically, we draw on the full‐count census of all housing built in Germany, data on 19,685 local elections between 1989 and 2011, and ...
Hanno Hilbig, Andreas Wiedemann
wiley   +1 more source

Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Representation increases women's influence in climate deliberations: Evidence from community‐managed forests in Malawi

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Women's inclusion is now the norm in global and local initiatives to combat climate change. We examine how women's representation affects climate deliberations using the case of community‐managed forests in Malawi. We run a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment randomly varying the gender composition of six‐member groups asked to deliberate on policies ...
Amanda Clayton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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