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Bipolarity and War: The Role of Capability Concentration and Alliance Patterns among Major Powers, 1816-1965
(Sage Publications, 1984)
This paper examines the relationship of war to power concentration and alliance configuration among the major powers. It does so by developing a theoretical argument from the literature on bipolarity and multipolarity. The ...
Arms Control and Strategic Arms Voting in the U.S. Senate
(Sage Publications, 1985)
This article examines the basis of U.S. Senate support for defense spending and arms control from 1967 to 1983. Some of the findings include the following: Those senators still in office at the end of the 1970s voted the ...
Gender Differences in Verbal Presumptuousness and Attentiveness
(Sage Publications, 1997)
Men's and women's verbal presumptuousness and attentiveness were measured by verbal response mode coding of laboratory conversations in five studies. The data were used to assess implications of two common assumptions about ...
Product Variety in Religious Markets
(Association for Social Economics, 1998)
This paper analyzes the relationship between religious market product variety and church membership. We find that denominational variety is negatively associated with the total level of church membership in U.S. counties. ...
The botanist effect: counties with maximal species richness tend to be home to universities and botanists
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006-11)
Free Riding, Market Structure, and Church Member Donations in South Carolina
(Religious Research Association, 2010-12)
The research on factors influencing member donations to churches is extensive. This paper uses unique data from South Carolina Baptists congregations to confirm much of the research, particularly including the potential ...
The Economics of Religion: A Survey of Recent Work
(Association of Christian Economists, 1991)
This essay is designed to familiarize readers with the economics of religion, make its literature more accessible, and encourage further contributions to that literature. The essay begins with work on the religious behavior ...
Religion Still Matters
(Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2000)
Research by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison and by Hull and Bold shows a negative relationship between church membership and crime rates. The results are important but do not employ the most recent available data. This ...
The Effect of Foreign and Local Visitors on Granting Park Concessions
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 1987)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive rights (concessions) to provide products or services within the park. The characteristics include that park development is only attractive ...