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Vocatie si regionalizare cultural-spirituala a locurilor geografice. Relevanta pentru planificare spatiala/speciala

Puscasu, Violeta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The study is based on the assertion that any inhabitable space carries in itself a cultural vocation, i.e. the … favorability for a specific cultural product, and spirituality is one of its major dimensions, sometimes associated up to synonymy … to culture. Among the range of cultural, artistic, political, economic and social categories, religion has represented a …

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The Religious and Anthropological Perspectives of Development and Poverty

Attia, Sayed Moawad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper examines the role of both religion and anthropology in development and accordingly reducing poverty. Within … and anthropology can play a crucial role in the development process and accordingly lead to reducing poverty. …

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Level of participation among the audience attended primary education training using group observation method.

K, Srinivasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The article provides a detailed analysis of the teachers who attended the training for primary education viewed pre-recorded cassette using Group Observation method. First the paper discusses detailed methodology on group observation and in the second part the findings suggests that for better...

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Ranking policy and political economic journals

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to rank economic journals in the broader field of policy and political science. By using one composite input and one composite output the paper ranks 52 journals in a linear programming setting using data for the time period of 1996-2010. In addition for the first...

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When Can Politicians Scare Citizens Into Supporting Bad Policies? A Theory of Incentives with Fear-Based Content

Lupia, Arthur; Menning, Jesse - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Analysts make competing claims about when and how politicians can use fear to gain support for suboptimal policies. Using a model, we clarify how common attributes of fear affect politicians’ abilities to achieve self-serving outcomes that are bad for voters. In it, a politician provides...

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Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Explaining the Choices of Cognitively Limited Actors

Lupia, Arthur; Zharinova, Natasha; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about human reasoning. One such assumption, that political actors think in complex and similar ways when assessing strategies, is nested within widely used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. Empirical research casts doubt...

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Criticism, Communication and Debate in Public Environment

Ortigueira, Luis C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper presents models of criticism, communication and debate in public environment, focusing on the types of criticism and countercriticism manifested in political debates and public management. The paper proposes: (i) a normative model showing how rational criticism and countercriticism...

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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economic policy depends not only on national elections but also on coalition bargaining strategies. In coalition government, minority parties bargain on policy and form a majority coalition, and select a Prime Minister from their mids. In Holland the latter is done conventionally with Plurality,...

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Single vote multiple seats elections. Didactics of district versus proportional representation, using the examples of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

No new issues are discussed but we try to improve on the didactics of some well-known elementary features of multiple seats elections that rely on a single vote such as common elections for Parliament or the U.S. Congress. The didactics concentrate on proportionality versus districts. Since some...

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When Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Benefits, Costs, and an Application to Jury Theorems

Lupia, Arthur; Levine, Adam Seth; Zharinova, Natasha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about how people think. One such assumption, that political actors use identical conjectures when assessing others’ strategies, is nested within applications of widely-used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. When...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042703