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Maxims Moral and Political

Monthly Review, 1958
These are exercises in an old literary form, long disused but consecrated by La Bruyere, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, and Chamfort to the distillation of philosophy. Some of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach undoubtedly belong to this tradition. A thought stands naked when expressed in a few words, and has only its native truth and beauty to survive upon ...
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Maxim Gorky: a political history

2012
Maxim Gorky was born in 1868. At nine he was thrown out into the world to fend for himself. Even as a boy he protested against the ugliness of life and refused to submit to the forces of circumstance. At sixteen he found himself in an intellectual and emotional quandry.
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Maximizing Tax Revenue While Minimizing Political Costs

Journal of Public Policy, 1985
ABSTRACTTax revenue is a function of laws and administration as well as economic activity. Four different theories purport to explain revenue-raising in contemporary Western nations: universal abstractions about economic systems; national culture: tax-specific characteristics; avoiding political costs through political inertia. OECD data on taxation in
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What maximizes productivity and impact in political science research?

European Political Science, 2021
What contributes toward academic productivity and impact in political science research publications? To consider this issue, Part I of this article describes the core concepts and their operationalization, using the h-index. The study theorizes that variations in this measure may plausibly be influenced by personal characteristics (like gender, career ...
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Is there a need for a maxim of politeness?

Journal of Pragmatics, 2010
In this article two arguments are given in support of a maxim of politeness. The first argument is that assuming a maxim is part of the best explanation of polite behaviour, considering the problems, which Brown and Levinson's theory and Fraser and Nolen's conversational contract theory have, and which a maxim-based theory does not have.
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Students’ Politeness Strategies and Politeness Maxims in Student-Teacher Online Interactions

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
This study investigated the politeness strategies and politeness maxims employed by engineering students during interactions with their teacher on the Blackboard Learn learning management system. Findings indicate that engineering students predominantly use positive politeness and tact maxims, aiming to affirm their teachers’ positive faces, reflecting
Cristy Grace A. Ngo, Frances Arabella B. Alcayde, Ia P. Lagrosa, Bless Yera B. Micabalo   +3 more
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The Political Project of Maxim Gorky and “New Life”

2022
Starting from the project of M. Gorky to found a radical democratic party, the article explores Maxim Gorky’s attitude to the October Revolution in his articles in the “Novaya Zhizn” newspaper, and reviews articles by other editors. Such an analysis irrefutably proves that the writer’s position on this issue does not contradict the details of his ...
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What Maximizes Research Excellence? Productivity and Impact in Political Science

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
What contributes towards research excellence in political science? To consider this issue, Part I describes the core concepts of academic productivity and impact and their operationalization, using the h-index. The study theorizes that variations in this measure may plausibly be influenced by personal characteristics (like gender, career longevity, and
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Maximizing political efficiency via electoral cycles: An optimal control model

European Journal of Operational Research, 2002
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Gavious, Arieh, Mizrahi, Shlomo
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The applicability of gricean maxims in social robotics polite dialogue

Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction, 2011
Human-robot interaction is the distinctive feature of social robotics; with the increasing pervasiveness of the social robots in our everyday lives, efforts should be made to improve the interaction. This study explores how Gricean conversational maxims on politeness can be implemented to develop polite dialogue in social robotics, catering to the ...
Qin En Looi, Swee Lan See
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