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PROTOTYPE DEFINITION THROUGH CONSENSUS ANALYSIS BETWEEN FUZZY C-MEANS AND ARCHETYPAL ANALYSIS [PDF]
, 2015 The general aim of cluster analysis is to build prototypes, or typologies of units that present similar characteristics. In this paper we propose an alternative approach based on consensus analysis of two different clustering methods to suitably obtain ...
Department of Political Sciences, Federico II University of Naples +3 more
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
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Les boursiers de la Fondation Ford et la recomposition des sciences sociales brésiliennes
Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2009 This article presents the first results of a research on the connections between international circulation of university professors and graduate students, and the genesis of Political Sciences as an academic field in Brazil.
Letícia Canêdo
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Max Weber on Politics, Reason, and the Clash of Values and Approaches to Ethics [PDF]
, 2019 This article investigates how Max Weber’s theory of value conflict is connected to his realist understanding of politics and how he conceives the relation of politics and ethics. This investigation also covers Weber’s views on the argumentative limits of
Dr Knoll, Manuel
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
, 1993 In 1985, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss common property resource management. This conference was a watershed in the development of the theoretical underpinning of institutional design for ...
G. Brady
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Does democratic backsliding undermine climate policy? No evidence (yet)
iScienceSummary: Countries with liberal democratic institutions tend to have stricter climate policies and have made more progress in reducing emissions than autocracies.
Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Böhmelt
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, 1998 The introduction explains the sense in which the concept of a paradigm, whose originator, T.S. Kuhn, was inspired by the history of the national sciences, is applied to the context of the social sciences.
Kornai, János
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Public Administration Education in Italy: a Statistical Analysis [PDF]
The paper presents a statistical analysis exploring public administration education in Italian universities. It highlights the main specificities of PA education in Italy with reference to the disciplinary character, the geographical distribution, the ...
Denita Cepiku, Marco Meneguzzo
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