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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The physiological activity of visceral organs, such as the heart, the lungs, and the gut, is surprisingly linked to many sophisticated mental operations, such as remembering the past, being aware of ourselves, making choices, and forging social bonds.
Alessandro Monti +1 more
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Decentralization and Political Institutions [PDF]
Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests hypotheses of the theoretical literature that results of decentralization depend on features of political institutions ...
Ruben Enikolopov, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
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Political ObserverThe literature on vote buying in democracies worldwide abounds, although with visible conceptual gaps stemming from the current discourse in conceptualising its various genres such as vote selling, retailing, and wholesaling, and votes trading, among ...
Aminu Musa +2 more
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Foreign capital, forest change and regulatory compliance in Congo Basin forests
Environmental Research Letters, 2014 Tropical forest change is driven by demand in distant markets. Equally, investments in tropical forest landscapes by capital originating from distant emerging economies are on the rise.
Jodi S Brandt +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais +32 more
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The Effects of Political Institutions on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade
, 2019 We present a model of political networks that integrates both the choice of trade partners (the extensive margin) and trade volumes (the intensive margin).
Kim, In Song +2 more
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Hybrid Political Communication and Subnational Democracy: The Dravidian Model in Tamil Nadu
Journal of Contemporary PoliticsPolitical communication has been central to the rise and durability of regional parties in Tamil Nadu, particularly the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).
Thiruppathi P, V Anil Kumar
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MINISTERIAL LIABILITY IN THE ROMANIAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2013 What seems relevant to us for highlighting in this study is the approach of the ministerial liability within the Romanian constitutional and legal system starting with the first document of constitutional value, namely the Developing Statute of the Paris
NICOLAE PAVEL
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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