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Babintsev Valentin, Gaidukova Galina, Ushamirskiy Alexey, Shapova Zhanna et al. • E3S Web of Conferences
(2020)
The article is devoted to the problem of urban youth interest’s realization in the sphere of social conflicts, which is a critical situation determined on the one hand, by the overall logic of socio-cultural development, and, on the other, ...
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DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202015905004
Deborah P. Dixon, Elizabeth Straughan • Geography Compass
(2010)
Abstract Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch – and the manner in which these work alone, o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00299.x
• Choice Reviews Online
(2014)
In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (c. 64 BCE c. 25 CE) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate countries. Geography is a vital ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.187090
Yi‐Fu Tuan • Annals of the Association of American Geographers
(1976)
The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1976.tb01089.x
Helen F. Wilson • Progress in Human Geography
(2016)
The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516645958
Felix Driver • Environment and Planning D Society and Space
(1992)
In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the ‘age of empire’ (circa...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/d100023
Michael J. Pacione • Routledge eBooks
(2009)
Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of econ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203881927
Amber Jamshaid • NUST Journal of International Peace and Stability
(2022)
Education for sustainable development is an evolving notion in teacher education that highlights the need for tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. Therefore, there is a greater need to elucidate the contributions of teacher educators in pr...
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DOI: 10.37540/njips.v5i1.121
Allison Sovey Carnegie, DONALD PHILIP GREEN • American Journal of Political Science
(2010)
The use of instrumental variables regression in political science has evolved from an obscure technique to a staple of the political science tool kit. Yet the surge of interest in the instrumental variables method has led to implementation ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00477.x
David M. J. Lazer • PS Political Science & Politics
(2011)
What are the relational dimensions of politics? Does the way that people and organizations are connected to each other matter? Are our opinions affected by the people with whom we talk? Are legislators affected by lobbyists? Is the capacity...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096510001873
Sheila Jasanoff • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
(1998)
Psychometric research on risk perception has frequently been invoked as evidence for a distinction between ‘actual’ risk as measured by experts and ‘perceived’ risk as experienced by laypersons. According to this view, perceived risk repres...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00129-4
Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan, Craig Volden • British Journal of Political Science
(2012)
Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and acr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123412000415
Craig A. Parsons (2007)
Abstract To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the landscape difficult to chart. We confront a bewilderi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199286676.001.0001
• Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congres...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.36-1204
Paul Sabatier • PS Political Science & Politics
(1991)
Political scientists who are policy scholars often trace their lineage back to the pioneering work of Lerner and Lasswell (1951). But public policy did not emerge as a significant subfield within the discipline of political science until th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629
Michael D. Ward, Katherine W. Stovel, Audrey Sacks • Annual Review of Political Science
(2011)
Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has incl...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.040907.115949
Ben Berger • Perspectives on Politics
(2009)
Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori's worry about conceptual “stretching.” Th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759270909080x
Jeffrey C. Isaac • Perspectives on Politics
(2015)
Introductions designed to furnish brief yet inviting summaries of each issue's contents.Ever since June 2005, when I became Perspectives Book Review Editor, I have written Introductions that do more than summarize.I have sought to highlight...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592715000031
• Continuum eBooks
(2012)
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government. Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501397813
Mohammad Ammar Ahsan, Faiz Ur Rehman, Bilal Asghar, Ali Saleh Alshebami et al. • Administrative Sciences
(2026)
This study sought to examine the evolution of financial technology (FinTech) and its huge influence on traditional financial systems, with particular attention to InsurTech, regulatory technology, robo-advisory services, and advertising tec...
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DOI: 10.3390/admsci16060244