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Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda [PDF]
, 2023 The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. Using a regression discontinuity analysis on neighboring ethnic homelands with different levels of pre-colonial centralization, we ...
Merima Ali +3 more
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Group Degree Centrality and Centralization in Networks [PDF]
Mathematics, 2020 The importance of individuals and groups in networks is modeled by various centrality measures. Additionally, Freeman’s centralization is a way to normalize any given centrality or group centrality measure, which enables us to compare individuals or groups from different networks. In this paper, we focus on degree-based measures of group centrality and
Matjaž Krnc, Riste Škrekovski
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Internet Mathematics, 2014 Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked many times in sociology, psychology and computer science, and a whole plethora of centrality measures (a.k.a. centrality indices, or rankings) were proposed to account for the importance of the nodes of a network.
P. Boldi, S. Vigna
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Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda [PDF]
, 2021 The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. By combining geo-referenced anthropological data on pre-colonial ethnic homelands with survey data from several rounds of the ...
Ali, Merima +3 more
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Is Bank Supervision Central to Central Banking? [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999 Whether central banks should play an active role in bank supervision and regulation is being debated both in the United States and abroad. While the Bank of England has recently been stripped of its supervisory responsibilities and several proposals in the United States have advocated removing bank supervision from the Federal Reserve System, other ...
Joe Peek +2 more
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Dynamic De/Centralization in Switzerland, 1848-2010 [PDF]
, 2017 Part of the project Why Centralization and Decentralization in Federations?, this article studies dynamic de/centralization in Switzerland since 1848 and seeks to account for the patterns observed.
Paolo Dardanelli +4 more
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CONCEPT OF THE CLOUD INFORMATION SPACE OF EXECUTIVE BODIES OF REGION
Статистика и экономика, 2016 The article discusses the features of building theInformation Space of St. Petersburg. It was statedthat there is strong inefficiency of investments inthe existing information systems in St.
Vladimir F. Minakov, Oleg S. Lobanov
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Centralization of Intensive Care Units: Process Reengineering in a Hospital [PDF]
, 2010 Centralization of intensive care units (ICUs) is a concept that has been around for several decades and the OECD countries have led the way in adopting this in their operations.
Sung J. Shim +3 more
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Medicine and kingship : endogenous centralization in east and central Africa [PDF]
, 2023 Despite a vast and recently reinvigorated body of research, a glaring lacuna remains in the literature on African chief- and kingship. Exogenous sociostructural explanations (Vansina) and the universalist concept of sacred kingship (de Heusch) disregard ...
Stroeken, Koenraad +7 more
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