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South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020 The recent spur of student-led mobilizations in India led to the portrayal of select public universities as the epitome of resistance, dissent and countercultural politics. Departing from essentialist approaches to student politics, this article outlines
Jean-Thomas Martelli
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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The States Must Be Crazy: Dissent and the Puzzle of Repressive Persistence [PDF]
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2012 According to forty years worth of research, dissent always increases repression whereas state coercive behavior has a range of different influences on dissident activity.
Christian Davenport, Cyanne Loyle
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Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez +3 more
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“Nation at Repair, Women at Work”: Kinship, Dissent, and Citizenship in South India
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalFrom December 2019 to March 2020, India was engulfed in protests against the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The Act provides a path to citizenship for persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but excludes Muslims.
Harini Kumar
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Exploring youth activism on climate change: dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent
Ecology and Society, 2018 The policies and decisions made today will influence climate and sustainability outcomes for the remainder of this century and beyond, and youth today have a large stake in this future.
Karen O'Brien +2 more
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Making Sense of Dissents: A History of FOMC Dissents [PDF]
Review, 2014 This article presents a record of dissents on Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) monetary policy votes from the Committee’s inception in its modern form in 1936 through 2013. Dissents were rare during the Committee’s first 20 years but began to increase in the late 1950s. The number of dissents increased sharply during the late 1970s and early 1980s,
Daniel L. Thornton, David C. Wheelock
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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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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva +2 more
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Minerva, 2006 There are two classic theories of the relationship between science and religion in the modern West. The 'conflict thesis', first advanced in the late nineteenth century and most closely associated with the names Andrew Dickson White and John Draper, is no longer taken seriously by historians (although its hold on the popular imagination has proven more
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