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Homefront: Black Servicemembers and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era
ABSTRACT The role of Black World War II veterans in the Civil Rights Movement has been well documented, but the effect of Black military service on Black voting patterns remains unclear. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration by race, we estimate the role of Black veterans in ...
Thomas Koch +2 more
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Applying Computational Engineering Modeling to Analyze the Social Impact of Conflict and Violent Events. [PDF]
Schwebel F, Meynen S, García-Herranz M.
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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aPhyloGeo: a Python application for correlating genetic and climatic conditions. [PDF]
Chenoweth Galaz AL, Tahiri N.
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ABSTRACT The emergence of cooperation in natural selection has been successfully studied using game theory and, despite the underlying selfish nature of the evolutionary process, a spectrum of plausible mechanisms have been proposed to determine the conditions under which cooperative behaviour is likely to occur.
Phil Mercy, Martin Neil
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From Black Death to COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Past Pandemics. [PDF]
Radparvar S.
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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What kinds of government trust structures affect political participation? Evidence from Chinese Youth Netizens. [PDF]
Wen C, Hu Q, Chen S.
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How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
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