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Can Voters Tame the Information Tide? How the Lack of Party Information Affects Voter Information Searches

Seib, Drew - 2010

efficient cue for making decisions and have to search for other information if they are to make a reasoned decision … partisan elections, but the effects are less pronounced. Yet, we still do not know where voters obtain partisan information in … examines how voters search for information when they cannot rely on party labels. To test this relationship, I use a dynamic …

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Political Institutions and China's Early Industrial Revolution, 1000 - 1300 A.D

Edwards, Ronald A. - 2012

During the millennium 250 B.C. to 750 A.D., China's long-run economic performance was characterized by a self-sufficient agrarian economy with per-capita GDP and population remaining more or less constant. In the mid-8th century AD, a major civil war initiated a transition away from a...

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Microfoundations of Macrostructural Change in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1660-1840

Demiryol, Tolga - 2012

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Developing Varieties of Capitalism : Industrial Variation in India and Pakistan

Naseemullah, Adnan - 2014

The Great Recession, and the global economic crisis that precipitated it, has renewed attention to the institutional foundations of capitalism: how, in different contexts, the multiple actors in the economy – from banks and unions to employer associations and regulatory agencies – cooperate...

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Does God Have a History?

Martin, Jerry L. - 2010

The human encounter with the Divine Reality is often with a personal God. Using Eric Voegelin's hermeneutic, the symbol “Person” is rich in implications, some of which are evident in religious texts, some of which is explicated by John Macmurray and Emmanuel Mournier. These implications...

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'Authoritarian Capitalism' in Post-Communist Russia and China : Regime Ideology-Building in Comparative Perspective

Chen, Cheng - 2010

During recent years, there is growing scholarly attention on the so-called “authoritarian capitalism,” spearheaded by authoritarian capitalist regimes such as contemporary China and Russia. This idea, however, does not tell us much about these regimes and their respective developmental...

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Alexis de Tocqueville’s Ancient Modern Liberty

Forde, Steven - 2010

Tocqueville's discovery of a muscular, participatory citizenship in the United States is well known, as is his argument that such citizenship is vital to the success of democracy. This has been a source of both self-congratulation and anxiety among Americans, the anxiety stemming from worries...

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Thucydides in Times of War : Holding the History Up as a Mirror

Lee, Christine M. - 2010

In 2005, Joseph Lane Jr. remarked: “Whenever we get a new war, we get a new Thucydides.” The fact that scholars and policymakers have turned to the History in response to the two world wars, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the more recent Iraq War and the “war on terror” demonstrates the...

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Revolutions and the Order of History

Leutzsch, Andreas - 2010

This paper deals with the concepts of disorder within the theoretical framework of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin. I will try to give a very brief and un-finished insight into the use of a comparative approach concerning both theories and it is therefore just a first step into two...

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Revising the History of the Early American State

Ericson, David - 2010

Several recent works, such as Brian Balogh's Government Out of Sight and Sheldon Pollack's War, Revenues, and State Building, have attacked the “weak state” trope in the American political development literature. My paper intends to assess this revisionist literature. The argument is the...

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