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Crafting Institutions for Localized Aid
(2015-06-09)
Today, most development practitioners agree that “going local” should be the way to
deliver foreign aid. However, while this idea is widely embraced in principle,
turning it into action is the hard problem. After all, ...
Socioeconomic Status and Health: Understanding Gradients Across Childhood and Adolescence
(Pergamon Press, 2006)
Socioeconomic status (SES) gradients may not be static across the lifespan, but instead may vary in strength across different life stages. This study examined the periods in childhood when SES and health relationships ...
The Judicial Common Space
(Oxford University Press, 2007-05-23)
To say that positive political theory (PPT) scholarship on the hierarchy of justice is theory rich and data poor is to make a rather uncontroversial claim. For over a decade now, scholars have offered intriguing theoretical ...
China's Political Reforms: A Net Assessment
(Sage Publications, 1984)
China's leaders since the death of Mao Zedong have tried to reform the political system so as to reduce the level of political coercion, increase the use of rational/legal processes, put talented individuals into responsible ...
Field and environmental approaches to world politics: implications for data archives
(Sage Publications, 1970)
Endogenous Jurisprudential Regimes
(2012-09-03)
Jurisprudential regime theory is a legal explanation of decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court that asserts that a key precedent in an area of law fundamentally restructures the relationship between case characteristics ...
Political Context, Issue Salience, and Selective Attentiveness: Constituent Knowledge of the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Vote
(Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2001-08)