Definitional ambiguity in cognitive warfare: a critical and systematic conceptual review through ideal-type analysis. [PDF]
Nilsson PE, Haga A, Hellström K.
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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Capturing the design space of meaningful human control in military systems using repertory grids. [PDF]
van Diggelen J, Burken CB, Vince J.
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A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races
Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca +2 more
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Efficacy of primary repair for retroperitoneal rectal injuries among patients with combined military trauma: tertiary single-center experience. [PDF]
Kondratskyi Y +10 more
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Governing health through security in the Philippines: a realist analysis. [PDF]
Akhavein D +6 more
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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Cultivating victory: workplace flourishing as a predictor of task performance in the Ghana Armed Forces. [PDF]
Bosomtwe TE, Nubuor SA.
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Semantic convergence in culturally loaded text translation by Large Language Models: a cross-model empirical analysis of English translations of <i>The Four Books</i>. [PDF]
Wan Q, Yu Q.
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