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Review of Steven J. Rosenstone, Forecasting Presidential Elections (published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1983))

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

Rosenstone develops a causal model to forecast political voting. The model seems reasonable; for example, it includes information about party, key issues, the economy, war, incumbency, region, and trends over time. Standard econometric methods are then used to determine how much weight should be...

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Book Review: Intentional Changes: A Fresh Approach to Helping People Change, by Allen Tough, Chicago: Follette Publishing Co., 1982.

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

Intentional Changes is an important book. It suggests different approaches to the way in which we try to implement change. It provides, as do most important books, much that you will disagree with. Tough’s conclusions are based on studies that are likely to be unknown to you. The book is...

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Does the Need for Agreement Among Reviewers Inhibit the Publication of Controversial Findings?

Armstrong, JS; Hubbard, Raymond - EconWPA - 2005

As Cicchetti indicates, agreement among reviewers is not high. This conclusion is empirically supported by Fiske and Fogg (1990), who reported that two independent reviews of the same papers typically had no critical point in common. Does this imply that journal editors should strive for a high...

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Is Review By Peers As Fair As It Appears?

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

Recent research shows that journal reviewing practices are neither objective nor fair. I propose a procedure to increase the likelihood of publishing important papers. This will be tested by Interfaces for a year.

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Forecasting Methods for Marketing:* Review of Empirical Research

Armstrong, J. S.; Brodie, R.; McIntyre, S. - EconWPA - 2005

scale surveys. We offer a framework for discussing forecasts in the area of marketing, and then review the literature in …

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Review of Don A. Dillman's Mail and Telephone Surveys, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

. This review gives a description of the content of Dillman’s book. It goes on to describe the flaws not only to alert the …

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Review of Peter W. Huber, Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1988

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

Q. What do you have when you have a lawyer up to his neck in sand? A. Not enough sand.

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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions

Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002

sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the …

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed … for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different … evidence on sub-Saharan Africa it concludes that the resource curse theory fails to sufficiently explain why and how several …

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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - EconWPA - 2005

Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi …

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