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World Investment and Political Risk 2009

open access: yes, 2009
Political risk is a top concern for corporate foreign investors from industrialized but also developing countries when venturing into emerging markets. At the same time, these investors maintain a positive
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
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Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

Why does Alejandro know more about politics than Catalina? : explaining the Latin American gender gap in political knowledge

open access: yes, 2017
Published online February 4, 2015This article tests contextual and individual-level explanations of the gender gap in political knowledge in Latin American countries.
Gomez Martinez, Raul   +3 more
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The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“In the Boundless and Inaccessible Mountains”: The Study of the Afghan Frontier by the Staff of the Separate Caucasus Corps in the Third Decade of the 19th Century

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований
The paper studies an episode of the Afghanistan survey performed by the officers of the Caucasus corpus’ Headquarters. The backcloth of the research is the history of the diplomatic Afghan ambassy that arrived in the Caucasus in 1835. The primary sources
Dmitry S. Tkachenko
doaj   +1 more source

What Citizens Know Depends on How You Ask Them: Political Knowledge and Political Learning Skills

open access: yes
Surveys provide widely-cited measures of political knowledge. Do unusual aspects of survey interviews reduce their relevance? To address this question, we embedded a set of experiments in a representative survey of over 1200 Americans.
Lupia, Arthur, Prior, Markus
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Academic Freedom and Political Legitimation in a Contemporary Globalised World

open access: yes, 2019
Since their inception in Western Europe, universities have characterized themselves with a strong political dimension – that of being partially independent by the main political players (Hofstadter, 1955).
Oleksiyenko, PA
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Education and Political Participation

open access: yes, 2015
What affects who participates in politics? In most studies of political behaviour it is found that individuals with higher education participate to a larger extent in political activities than individuals with lower education.
Persson, Mikael, Persson, Mikael J,
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