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Community Policing in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico City
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2010 Community policing programmes are widely perceived and promoted as an important solution for the pressing problems of insecurity in contemporary Latin American cities, and for improving citizen-police relationships. By drawing on the results of empirical
Markus-Michael Müller
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Democratic representation and democratic sanctions [PDF]
Representation, 2018 In this paper, I argue that citizens have an entitlement to sanction representatives, but representatives have tools to anticipate this sanction and reconstruct their views in order to anticipate t...
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.An integrated OT‐2/plate reader platform automates LCST cloud point measurement of NIPAM‐co‐DMAEMA copolymers across high‐dimensional formulation spaces. Machine learning trained on the resulting high‐throughput datasets achieves R2 up to 0.96 and enables inverse design of polymer formulations to target transition temperatures with <1% error.
Lachlan Alexander +2 more
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2019 The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is “the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.” The continued success of the CSW's mission is critical ...
Meg Rincker +3 more
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Die Rezeption des kontinentaleuropäischen Zivilrechts in Taiwan und die Eigenständigkeit des taiwanischen Zivilrechts [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2018 Taiwan became a colony of Japan in 1895, and thus followed Japan in transplanting Continental European civil law. Early in the period of Japanese rule, Taiwanese civil matters were largely decided according to customs, which were informed by concepts and
Tay-sheng Wang
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Globalization, democratization, and the Arab uprising : the international factor in MENA's failed democratization [PDF]
, 2015 What explains the almost negative impact of international factors on post-Uprising democratization prospects? This article compares the utility of rival “diffusionist” and neo-Gramscian political economy frames to explain this.
Hinnebusch, Raymond, Raymond Hinnebusch
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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
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, 2016 Civil society, according to mainstream democratization literature, has a positive impact on democratic survival and durability. As a critical promoter of democracy, it has proven to limit state power, foster political participation, and enrich ...
Arugay, Aries
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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, 2014 Democratization: A Critical Introduction offers what the title promises: a critical – but not dogmatic – introductory text to democratization in theory and practice.
Khakee, Anna
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