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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Perceived Public Stigma of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Development and Validation of the Stigma of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (STONSI) Scale in Two Samples. [PDF]

Stigma Health
Victor SE, Bianco AN, McClay MM, Mitchell SM, Ingram PB.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifiers for a Modal Future

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
wiley   +1 more source

What's Wrong With “Conceptual Amelioration”?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conceptual amelioration aims to make the world a more just place by ameliorating our concepts. I offer three arguments against this enterprise as currently practiced to show how social philosophy aimed at producing social change can be better practiced. First, ameliorators often fail to provide plausible stories to vindicate their claims about
Lidal Dror
wiley   +1 more source

A quest for greater thermodynamic rigour in the quantitative characterization of protein self-association by direct assessment of sedimentation equilibrium distributions. [PDF]

Biophys Rev
Winzor DJ, Wills PR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unconstitutional Appointment of Patent Death Squad

, 2021
Tran JL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Romantic Domination

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Clarity and the Rule of Law: A Global Experimental Study of Consistency in Administrative Decision‐Making

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws often contain linguistically complex features that increase cognitive processing demands and weaken comprehension. We extend this argument to bureaucratic decision‐making by proposing that reduced legal clarity decreases the consistency of administrative decisions.
Joakim Nilsson, Marina Nistotskaya
wiley   +1 more source

Universal health coverage and equal access in Sweden: a century-long perspective on macro-level policy. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Fredriksson M.
europepmc   +1 more source