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Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the Will

open access: yes, 1995
The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College.
Guelzo, Allen C.
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Making Representative Politics Work: Cross‐Segmental Parties in Consociations

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 5-24, March 2024.
Abstract Cross‐segmental parties are outliers in consociations dominated by ethnic parties. While they often receive comparatively limited electoral support, they have the ability to make representative politics work. Cross‐segmental parties can successfully represent cross‐communal interests and encourage governments to focus on non‐segmental issues ...
Timofey Agarin, Henry Jarrett
wiley   +1 more source

Intra-Group Competition and Inter-Group Conflict: An Application to Northern Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews four economic theories of leadership selection in conflictual settings. The first of these by Cukierman and Tomassi (1998) labeled the ‘information rationale’, argues that hawks may actually be necessary to initiate peace agreements ...
Colin Jnnings
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Guise Theory Revisited

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2013
Castañeda’s guise theory is a peculiarly interesting Neo-Meinongian approach, in virtue of its bundle-theoretic and anti-representationalist features. But it also has some problematic aspects.
Francesco Orilia
doaj  

Vetoes, deadlock and deliberative umpiring: Toward a proportionality doctrine for power-sharing constitutions

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
This article addresses power-sharing constitutions that include powers of veto wielded by discrete ethnonational groups. Such constitutional arrangements – seen, for example, in Northern Ireland and Bosnia – have often prompted severe deadlock, a problem
Ron Levy, Ian O’Flynn
doaj   +1 more source

Political leadership, conflict, and the prospects for constitutional peace [PDF]

open access: yes
The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of ...
Jennings, Colin
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Forest Succession in the Valparaiso and Packerton Moraines in Indiana [PDF]

open access: yes, 1951
Indiana has experienced many climatic changes due primarily to its geographical location which brought it in contact with climates which find expression in boreal, grassland, and the southern deciduous forest vegetations. Many of the vegetational changes
Oliver, John L.
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Soil Nitrification Rate Is Affected by Plant Species and Nitrogen Levels

open access: yesAgriculture
The soil nitrification rate is significantly affected by plant species, and it is also modulated by different nitrogen levels in the soil. There are a wide range of plant species with the capacity to produce biological nitrification inhibitors (hereafter
Luca Vitale   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correlation of perceived stress with monthly cyclical changes in the female body. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Family Med Prim Care, 2023
Jain P   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lebanon: Is the Consociational system reformable ?

open access: yes, 2001
Ten years after the adoption of a new constitutional text, none of the major questions raised by the war have been resolved: neither the guilt of the militia leaders and their amnesty, nor the issue of missing and displaced persons, still less the axial ...
Picard, Elizabeth
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