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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hokou System
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - eSocialSciences - 2010
They conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which categorizes citizens into urban and rural residents, and...
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Book Review: War, Culture and Media
Virchow, Fabian - eSocialSciences - 2008
Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250090
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543100
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Afghanistan: Where does all the aid go?
ACHR, Asian Centre for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2008
war on Afghanistan since 2001. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487650
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Reconciliation and Development
Brounéus, Karen - eSocialSciences - 2008
the war. Yet, attitudes and behaviors do not change at the moment of declaration of peace. The aim of this background … war. [FES] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699332
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Journalism in Democracies During Times of War: Examining the Role of Indian and US Media
Sharma, Aradhana - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of war with particular reference …€˜patriotic’ tendency to get support for their own agenda. [CCMG Working paper]. URL:[http://jmi.ac.in/upload/menuupload/Aradhana___WAR …
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States Reorganisation: Contemporary Concerns
Pai, Sudha; Sarangi, Asha - eSocialSciences - 2009
Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and political context in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250393
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Under the Thumb of History? Political institutions and the Scope for Action
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are …
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Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963-1993: Volume 31
UCL, The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC - eSocialSciences - 2008
Medical ethics did not become a recognized subject in the syllabus of Britain's medical schools until 1993. This Witness Seminar transcript records the development of international ethical codes, the response to them over the period 1963-93 by students and doctors and the extent of resistance...
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India: Large and Small
Sen, Amartya - eSocialSciences - 2007
the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing relevance today. The intellectual largeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341826