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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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The role of Chinese folk ritual music in biodiversity conservation: an ethnobiological perspective from the Lingnan region. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol EthnomedLiu Y, Song Y.
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An Explanation of Path Analysis and Recommendations for Best Practice
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Path analysis has become increasingly popular, but many studies do not show a deep understanding of how path analysis works or the assumptions on which it relies. In this paper, we explain that path analysis is statistically equivalent to either OLS when the researcher assumes uncorrelated errors, or instrumental variable (IV) estimation when ...
Clive Lennox, Carmen Payne‐Mann
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Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Some argue that the more costly it would be to exercise one's power over an issue, the less power one inherently has over it. I challenge this thesis with two major objections—one conceptual, the other practical or explanatory—contending that costs influence issue‐power not inherently but contingently in specifically strategic contexts.
Arash Abizadeh
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Metaphorically speaking: considerations in applying metaphor to your research higher degree. [PDF]
J Res NursByrne A, Mulvogue J.
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Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How do opposition elites succeed in authoritarian elections? Existing theories of authoritarian politics suggest a pivotal role for elections in enhancing the survival of incumbent dictators. Yet, in many contexts, opposition elites attract considerable support and constrain the policymaking authorities of these dictators.
Daniel L. Tavana
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Empirical realism and democratic equality
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
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