The Role of the World Bank in Controlling Corruption [PDF]
In 1997, Professor of Law and Political Science, Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s seventeenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: The World Bank’s Role in Controlling Corruption.
Rose-Ackerman, Susan
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Innovating to amplify the voices of young people from marginalized ethnic migrant backgrounds
Abstract The meaningful participation of young people from marginalized ethnic backgrounds in civic processes is central to the social cohesion of increasingly diverse liberal democracies, but their participation is compromised by a range of barriers resulting in decision‐making that is disconnected from their lives.
Kelsey L. Deane+7 more
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Only a Little to the Left: A Theory-grounded Measure of Political Bias in Large Language Models [PDF]
Prompt-based language models like GPT4 and LLaMa have been used for a wide variety of use cases such as simulating agents, searching for information, or for content analysis. For all of these applications and others, political biases in these models can affect their performance.
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Automating Political Bias Prediction [PDF]
Every day media generate large amounts of text. An unbiased view on media reports requires an understanding of the political bias of media content. Assistive technology for estimating the political bias of texts can be helpful in this context. This study proposes a simple statistical learning approach to predict political bias from text.
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Implications of state policy context for the well‐being of immigrant families with young children
Abstract There is notable variation in state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrant parents and their children. Little research has investigated how these exclusions impair the well‐being of immigrant families. This study examined how state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrants are associated with the well‐being of immigrant parents and ...
Kevin Ferreira van Leer+5 more
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Economics cannot isolate itself from political theory: a mathematical demonstration [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to provide a confession of sorts from an economist to political science and philosophy. A confession of the weaknesses of the political position of the economist. It is intended as a guide for political scientists and philosophers to the ostensible policy criteria of economics, and an illustration of an argument that ...
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Learning to “Play the Game as Men Do”: How the General Federation of Women’s Clubs Brought Political Science to Women [PDF]
Alixandra B. Yanus
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“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito+3 more
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Wage arbitrage through skilled emigration: Evidence from the Pacific Islands
Abstract Skilled workers in poor countries earn wages a fraction of that of their counterparts in rich nations. Here, we estimate the opportunities for wage arbitrage from emigration of workers from the Pacific Islands into Australia and New Zealand. Our calculations, based on wages earned by graduate accountants, computer science graduates and cooks ...
Satish Chand+2 more
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Polite Dialogue Generation Without Parallel Data [PDF]
Stylistic dialogue response generation, with valuable applications in personality-based conversational agents, is a challenging task because the response needs to be fluent, contextually-relevant, as well as paralinguistically accurate. Moreover, parallel datasets for regular-to-stylistic pairs are usually unavailable.
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