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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon, Clara Neupert‐Wentz, Andrej Kokkonen, Jørgen Møller   +3 more
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Geocoding Applications for Enhancing Urban Water Supply Network Analysis

Urban Science
Geospatial tools and geocoding systems play an increasingly significant role in the modernization and operation of municipal water utility networks. This research explored how geocoding systems could improve network management, facilitate leak detection,
Péter Orgoványi, Tamás Hammer, Tamás Karches   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A method and a tool for geocoding and record linkage [PDF]

For many years, researchers have presented the geocoding of postal addresses as a challenge. Several research works have been devoted to achieve the geocoding process.
CHARIF Omar, KLEIN Olivier, OMRANI Hichem, SCHNEIDER Marc, TRIGANO Philippe   +4 more
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Mining the Demographics of Political Sentiment from Twitter Using Learning from Label Proportions

, 2017
Opinion mining and demographic attribute inference have many applications in social science. In this paper, we propose models to infer daily joint probabilities of multiple latent attributes from Twitter data, such as political sentiment and demographic ...
Ardehaly, Ehsan Mohammady, Culotta, Aron
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Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web [PDF]

, 2005
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geographical terms in the same way as other terms. This can result in failure
Joho, H., Jones, C.B., Sanderson, M., Vaid, S.   +3 more
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Budding enrollment: The impact of cannabis policy on US colleges and universities

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine how liberalized recreational marijuana laws have affected freshmen enrollment and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) major choice using difference‐in‐differences and event study models. Estimates indicate near‐zero initial enrollment growth as schools substituted between in‐state and out‐of‐state students.
Joshua H. Hess, Danna Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Using Twitter Data to Monitor Natural Disaster Social Dynamics: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach with Word Embeddings and Kernel Density Estimation

Sensors, 2019
In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have received a great deal of attention for their potential use in the spatial and temporal modeling of events owing to the information that can be extracted from these platforms. Within this context, one of
Aldo Hernandez-Suarez, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Karina Toscano-Medina, Hector Perez-Meana, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Victor Sanchez, Luis Javier García Villalba   +6 more
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Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD (SPIROMICS) AIR Study. [PDF]

, 2017
IntroductionPopulation-based epidemiological evidence suggests that exposure to ambient air pollutants increases hospitalisations and mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but less is known about the impact of exposure to air ...
Alexis, Neil, Barr, R Graham, Bleecker, Eugene, Bowler, Russell, Breysse, Patrick J, Comellas, Alejandro P, Cooper, Christopher B, Dransfield, Mark, Fan, Vincent S, Gassett, Amanda J, Han, MeiLan K, Hansel, Nadia N, Kaufman, Joel D, Kim, Victor, Krishnan, Jerry A, Martinez, Fernando, Paulin, Laura M, Peng, Roger D, Pirozzi, Cheryl, Woodruff, Prescott G   +19 more
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source