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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 ...
Federalism as a Public Good
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications ...
Analysis of No-Difference Findings in Evaluation Research
(Sage Publications, 1989)
Conclusions of no difference are becoming increasingly important in evaluation research. We delineate three major uses of no-difference findings and analyze their meanings. (1) No-differ ence findings in randomized experiments ...
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 ...
Imagining the American polity: Political science and the discourse of democracy
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
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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 ...
Does it pay to move from welfare to work?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to lookfor work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition,the ...