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Kochan Orest, Su Jun, Kochan Roman • E3S Web of Conferences
(2017)
The method of compensation of changes in temperature field along the legs of inhomogeneous thermocouple, which measures a temperature of an object, is considered in this paper. This compensation is achieved by stabilization of the temperatu...
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DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20171903023
Ron A. Boschma, Koen Frenken • Journal of Economic Geography
(2006)
The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic geography during the last couple of decades. By separating the three approaches in t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbi022
J. Vernon Henderson, Zmarak Shalizi, Anthony J. Venables • Journal of Economic Geography
(2001)
Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/1.1.81
Ajay K. Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb B • National Bureau of Economic Research
(2011)
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding'' is the broad geographic dispersion of investors. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We exam...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3386/w16820
James Waller • Journal of Hate Studies
(2002)
According to Jewish-Christian tradition, the first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. Two men, says Elie Wiesel, and one of them became a killer.1 Throughout human history, social conflict is ubiquitou...
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DOI: 10.33972/jhs.2
Sandra Botero • Journal of Politics in Latin America
(2020)
Research on the determinants of institutional trust in courts that are part of transitional justice frameworks is scarce. This article relies on experimental evidence to explore whether features of the case and the ruling play a role in cit...
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DOI: 10.1177/1866802X20959509
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
Lisa Wedeen • Annual Review of Political Science
(2010)
The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distincti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.052706.123951
Arthur F. Bentley, Thelma Z. Lavine • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
Set opposite to all the various forms of so-called psychical interpretation, the people have a dead political science. When it is necessary to touch up this barren formalism with a glow of humanity, an injection of metaphysics is used. Ther...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315134222-4
David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham K. Wilson • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2010)
Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199214273.003.0002
Michael A. Brintnall • SSRN Electronic Journal
(2006)
Political science is not what the political scientist does. While the political scientist brings to a subject many orientations that create scholarship, what makes such work political science is its being embedded in a framed set of relatio...
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Gerry Stoker, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre (2015)
"What does political science tell us about important real-world problems and issues? And to what extent does and can political analysis contribute to solutions? This is the challenge addressed by leading political scientists in this origina...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50660-3
Keith M. Dowding, Charles Miller • European Journal of Political Research
(2019)
Abstract This article discusses recent moves in political science that emphasise predicting future events rather than theoretically explaining past ones or understanding empirical generalisations. Two types of prediction are defined: pragma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12319
Keith M. Dowding • Australian Journal of Political Science
(2020)
Many ‘philosophy of … .’ subjects are closely intertwined with their subject matter, using the results in, say biology, or physics, or the content of history or art, as part-and-parcel of their subject matter. Political philosophy does not ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2020.1822776
John Gerring, Joshua C. Yesnowitz • Polity
(2006)
Traditionally, the scientific study of politics has been associated with a value-neutral approach to the subject. One seeks to uncover what is, not what ought to be, in the political realm. This is what distinguishes a “positive” science fr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300054
John S. Dryzek • The Journal of Politics
(1986)
Scientific progress is normally portrayed as a series of stable, rational choices between competing theories, research programs, or research traditions within a discipline. Progress of that sort cannot occur in political science because any...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2131095
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
Nicola J. Smith, Donna Lee • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
(2014)
Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.12037
James D. Fearon • World Politics
(1991)
Scholars in comparative politics and international relations routinely evaluate causal hypotheses by referring tocounterfactual caseswhere a hypothesized causal factor is supposed to have been absent. The methodological status and the viabi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2010470
David Easton • American Political Science Review
(1969)
A new revolution is under way in American political science. The last revolution—behavioralism—has scarcely been completed before it has been overtaken by the increasing social and political crises of our time. The weight of these crises is...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055400263193