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Republican Sicily at the start of the 21st Century: the rise of the optimists?
Pallas, 2009 This study considers trends in the historical study of Republican Sicily in the twentieth century. It outlines the existence of optimistic and pessimistic interpretations of the period, and examines some of the underlying reasons (principally the ...
Jonathan R.W. Prag
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Rational Speculative Bubbles in the US Stock Market and Political Cycles [PDF]
, 2015 This paper tests the existence of rational speculative bubbles during Democratic and Republican presidential terms, which has not been systematically researched in existing studies.
Wang, Miao Grace, Wong, Sunny
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We examine political affiliation's role in venture team formation and success. Using data from Crunchbase and L2 on 1125 US‐based startups, we investigate political homophily in team assembly and its association with startup outcomes.
Balázs Kovács, Tim Sels
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Parliament membership during the single-party system in Turkey (1925-1945) [PDF]
, 2005 The official legitimization of the single-party regime in Turkey lay with Parliament, which, as a representative of the people, controlled the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. However, the parliamentary period after 1925 was highlighted by a
Kocak, Cemil, Koçak, Cemil
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Search Bias Quantification: Investigating Political Bias in Social Media and Web Search
, 2019 Users frequently use search systems on the Web as well as online social media to learn about ongoing events and public opinion on personalities. Prior studies have shown that the top-ranked results returned by these search engines can shape user opinion ...
Eslami, M. +6 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.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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Democracy, Race, and Multiculturalism in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Voting Rights Act Ever be Obsolete? [PDF]
, 2006 Part I of this essay begins one hundred years before the passage of the Act, with Reconstruction. I briefly canvas the interracial alliances of the Reconstruction and Redemption periods, underscoring that American democracy has been most responsive to ...
Cashin, Sheryll
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How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies [PDF]
, 2010 Event studies have been used in political science to study the cost of regulation (Schwert, 1981), the value of political connections (Roberts, 1990a; Fisman, 2001), the effect of political parties on defense spending (Roberts, 1990b), the importance ...
Snowberg, Erik +2 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Feared, revered, and politicized, wolves have long captured human imagination, and ignited fierce conservation conflicts. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act protects species at risk of extinction from human impacts. This far‐reaching legislation, which impacts development and state‐level wildlife management, has been fraught with legal ...
Iree Wheeler +9 more
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Gender representations in adaptations of foreign literature in the Republican period
, 2018 Chinese film The Heroine in the Besieged City 孤城烈女 (Gucheng lienü, 1936) is based on 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant’s (1850−93) story “Boule de Soif.” The Chinese version of Boule de Soif, like her French counterpart, is caught in a moral ...
QIN, Liyan
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