Two Views on Institutional Development: The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions [PDF]
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development.
Erich Gundlach, Martin Paldam
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Filling some black holes: modeling the connection between urbanization, infrastructure, and global service intensity in 112 metropolitan regions across the world [PDF]
, 2012 This empirical article combines insights from previous research on the level of knowledge-intensive service in metropolitan areas with the aim to develop an understanding of the spatial structure of the global service economy.
Bassens, David +3 more
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Neuronal correlates of serial position performance in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. [PDF]
Objectives: Delayed recall of the first words of a list - the primacy position – is thought to be particularly dependent on intact memory consolidation.
Brueggen, K +9 more
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Human Resource Management in New Jersey State Government [PDF]
, 2006 In 2005, the State of New Jersey Department of Personnel commissioned the Heldrich Center to study the critical human resource management issues confronting New Jersey state government.
Angie McGuire +3 more
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Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects [PDF]
We study a model of primacy effect on individual's attitude. Typically, when receiving a strong negative feature first, the individual keeps a negative attitude whatever the number of moderate positive features it receives afterwards.
Guillaume Deffuant, Sylvie Huet
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The Social Constructionist Challenge to Primacy Identity and the Emancipation of Oppressed Groups: Human Primacy Identity Politics and the Human/'Animal' Dualism [PDF]
In a recent issue of this journal Mike Homfray asserted that social constructionism challenges emancipatory politics based in essential conceptualisations of identity.
Kay Peggs
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The Primacy of EU Law: Interpretive, not Structural
European Papers(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(3), 1255-1291 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. – II. Defiance. – III. Primacy of what? – IV. Pluralism in action. – V. The incoherence of pluralism.
Pavlos Eleftheriadis
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Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa? [PDF]
We develop an economic geography model where mobile skilled workers choose to either work in a production sector or to become part of an unproductive elite.
Alain Pholo Bala, Kristian Behrens
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Politics as usual? The Trials and Tribulations of the Law of Historical Memory in Spain [PDF]
, 2008 The aim of this article is to evaluate the Law of Historical Memory from a political perspective where politics is understood as "the art of the possible".
Blakeley, Georgina
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Framing Social Values:\ud An Experimental Study of Culture and Cognition [PDF]
, 2007 How and why does a given social value come to shape the way an individual thinks, feels,and acts in a specific social situation? This study links ideas from Goffman’s frame analysis to other lines of research, proposing that dramatic narratives of ...
Stolte, Professor John F.
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