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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Populist attitudes towards politics and science: how do they differ?

Political Research Exchange, 2023
While populist citizens’ opposition to political elites has been intensively researched, populist criticism of other societal institutions, such as science, has only recently attracted public and scholarly attention.
Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Robert A. Huber, Niels G. Mede, Esther Greussing   +3 more
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Recycling bins, garbage cans or think tanks? Three myths regarding policy analysis institutes [PDF]

, 2007
The phrase 'think tank' has become ubiquitous – overworked and underspecified – in the political lexicon. It is entrenched in scholarly discussions of public policy as well as in the 'policy wonk' of journalists, lobbyists and spin-doctors. This does not
Abelson D, Andjelkovic B, Bakvis H, Boas M., Boucher S., Denham A., DIANE STONE, Hajer M., Halfmann W., Ionita S, Keohane R.O., Kingdon J, Krause Hansen H., Ladi S, McGann J., Miller C., Minggiu-Pippidi A, Overseas Development Council (ODC), Palley T, Reinicke W, Saint-Martin D, Shinn J., Smith J.A, Stone D, Struyk R.J, UNDP (United Nations Development Program), Weaver R. Kent   +26 more
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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden, Sara Gardner Hedgecock, Lawton L. Nalley, Alvaro Durand‐Morat, Aaron Shew, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fraction of Political Science: Behind the Masks of the Discipline’s Status Revue, an Unexpected (Primordial) Question Has Arisen: A Faculty or a Political School?

Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2008
The world academic literature shows that political science (in singular) has been in such status for centuries, within (the plural of ) political sciences preceding today’s social sciences, within which political science has also been in a permanent ...
Dag Strpić
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"Still Underexposed"? – Some Remarks On The Problematic Relationship Between Visual Communication, Political Science, and Civic Education

Journal of Social Science Education, 2009
Political science in the German-speaking world is only concerned peripherally with pictures. In the course of the “iconic turn” during the 1990s visual political communication became an issue of more weight, but other disciplines like art history still ...
Benjamin Drechsel
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Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines [PDF]

, 2009
The Connecticut Attorney General’s recent allegations that the Infectious Disease Society of America violated antitrust law through its treatment guidelines for Lyme disease were neither based in sound science or appropriate legal judgment.
Gostin, Lawrence O., Kraemer, John D.
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Education in the new Era: The Dissemination of Education for Sustainable Development in the Political Science Programmes at Notre Dame University – Louaize

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
Sustainable development is continuous process of change requiring painful choices resting on political will. This paper examines the developments needed to engage with sustainable development in the field of political science through the following: the ...
Labaki Georges
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Editorial Note

Politikon, 2020
This Editorial Note contains a brief reflection on COVID-19 and Political Science, and a summary of the issue's content, featuring academic works on some of the most pertinent issues of our times: public health, elections, climate change, security, (in ...
Editorial Board, Rafael Plancarte
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