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Social Capital and Political Accountability [PDF]
In this paper, we empirically investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability.
Andrea Stella +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de História da Educação, 2013 In this study, we aim to analyze the process of primary education expansion in the state of Rio de Janeiro during two Amaral Peixoto’s administration mandates: in 1937, when he was appointed by President Getúlio Vargas; and in 1951, when he was elected ...
Irma Rizzini, Raquel Souza de Barros
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Religion and Same-Sex Marriage in California: A New Look at Attitudes and Values Two Years After Proposition 8 [PDF]
, 2010 Based on a survey, explores shifts in Californians' support for Proposition 8, legalizing same-sex marriage, and broader LGBTQ issues by religion, race/ethnicity, age, and political affiliation.
Daniel Cox, Robert P. Jones
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A summit on a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC)
BMC Digital HealthBackground During the last thirty years the world has benefited from the increasing adoption to cloud-based storage of personal health records. The concept of a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC) of personal health records is presented in the GPOC ...
Niklas Lidströmer +4 more
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, 2007 We suggest a technology and set of procedures by which a major democratic de?cit of modern society can be addressed. The mechanism, whilst it makes limited use of cryptographic techniques in the background, is based around objects and procedures with ...
Cockshott, W.P., Renaud, K.
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An Analysis of the 2002 Presidential Elections Using Logistic Regression
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2007 The 2002 elections were a watershed in Brazilian electoral history. Three aspects of the process in particular have been amply stressed in several analyses.
Jairo Nicolau
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'Descended from immigrants and revolutionists': how family immigration history shapes representation in Congress [PDF]
, 2019 Does recent immigrant lineage influence the legislative behavior of members of Congress on immigration policy? We examine the relationship between the immigrant background of legislators (i.e., their generational distance from immigration) and ...
Feigenbaum, James +2 more
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BuildingsCurrent thermal comfort constructs are perceptional, and their relationships to the physiological responses are not fully understood. The latter are very important, not only to indicate personal comfort perception but also to protect personal health ...
Abdelaziz Laouadi
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How local are local lists? A quantitative and qualitative analysis of local lists in Flanders [PDF]
, 2013 Local party systems in Western democracies are characterized by the presence of so-called independent local lists, giving a distinct place-bound flavour to local politics.
Heyerick, An, Steyvers, Kristof
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Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout [PDF]
, 1992 This study views voter participation as a collective action problem overcome chiefly by means of "solidary" and "purposive" selective incentives. It is argued that these incentives are primarily in the form of civic or societal norms, rather than ...
Knack, Stephen
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