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The choice argument for proportional representation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Science, race and Nazism

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
«We cannot put our lives right in retrospect; we must go on living with the past. We can put ourselves right, however». This sentence by Reiner Kunze opens a powerful testimony: that of Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s very young secretary from December ...
Pedro Jesús Teruel
doaj   +1 more source

[Review of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights or Wrong [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Skokie is an Illinois suburb in which about 7,000 Jewish survivors of the European Holocaust live. In 1978, The National Socialist Party of American [America] (NSPA) (known until 1970 as the American Nazi Party) wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, to ...
McNeil, Elizabeth
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Reseñas [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Paul WEINDLING, Health, race and German politics between national unification and nazism, 1870 ...
Rodríguez Ocaña, Esteban
core  

Introduction to “Laboring from ex‐centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work”

open access: yesAnthropology of Work Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to industrial regimes has produced new categories of people deemed “unfit” for labor. Even if these boundaries are more porous nowadays, contributions to this Special Issue reveal continuities in how people struggle for a place in domains of work that are ill‐shaped to accommodate their diverse bodyminds.
Giorgio Brocco, Stefanie Mauksch
wiley   +1 more source

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