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How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing shortages and rising rents have increased demands for affordable housing. In this paper, we examine whether electoral constraints can undermine local politicians' incentives to build public housing. Empirically, we draw on the full‐count census of all housing built in Germany, data on 19,685 local elections between 1989 and 2011, and ...
Hanno Hilbig, Andreas Wiedemann
wiley   +1 more source

Psychiatric Experiments with "Community" Under Dictatorship and Authoritarianism: The Case of the Protected Commune Experience, 1980-1989. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Montenegro C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
wiley   +1 more source

Helpful assistant or fruitful facilitator? Investigating how personas affect language model behavior. [PDF]

PLoS One
Luz de Araujo PH, Roth B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach, Zhaotian Luo, Anton Shirikov, Dmitriy Vorobyev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health lifestyles of six Zhiguo ethnic groups in China: a latent class analysis. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Wu K, Chen J, Xiao Y, Yan C, Li X, Huang Y, Deng R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Students' Perceptions of Educators' Communication Accommodative Behaviors in Classrooms in China. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Ji D, Giles H, Hu W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dismantling the Shed. A Chronicle

Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract It is the festive beginning of spring in a small village and sailing tourism resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland: Catholic Easter is followed by Majówka, the first tourism weekend in May. Caught up between the rituals of Easter and those of tourism in the village, you, Zenon, a middle‐aged man born there, lose grip on the ...
Hannah Wadle
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the GP-patient relationship: a historical narration. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Ladds E.
europepmc   +1 more source