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Political contexts
"... Qualitative methodology often explicit, anti-state bias, suggesting that when NGOs collaborate with states, they cease to be a James Ferguson (1990) also reminded us that NGOs can become part of the “anti-politics machine of development. ” A growing body of work has examined the political role of NG ..."
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development project and, consequently, how the NGO carries out its work (see, e.g., P. Evans, 2010; Spires, 2011). We nevertheless lack a framework that appropriately reflects the tug-of-war of power and interests between states and NGOs across political contexts. Furthermore, our current understanding
The Political Context of Competition:
"... This research tests arguments that political challenges and economic competition shaped regional and temporal variation in lynchings and urban violence against blacks during the volatile period 1882 through 1914. The fundamental hypothesis is that rates of racial violence rose when interracial compe ..."
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This research tests arguments that political challenges and economic competition shaped regional and temporal variation in lynchings and urban violence against blacks during the volatile period 1882 through 1914. The fundamental hypothesis is that rates of racial violence rose when interracial
CHAPTER 1 European political context
"... Though the organisation and content of education and training systems are entirely their responsibility, Member States of the European Union increasingly acknowledge the benefits of policy co-operation ..."
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Though the organisation and content of education and training systems are entirely their responsibility, Member States of the European Union increasingly acknowledge the benefits of policy co-operation
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment
- Psychological Review
, 1983
"... Perhaps the simplest and the most basic qualitative law of probability is the conjunction rule: The probability of a conjunction, P(A&B), cannot exceed the probabilities of its constituents, P(A) and.P(B), because the extension (or the possibility set) of the conjunction is included in the exten ..."
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instances of a more inclusive category. The representativeness and availability heuristics therefore can make a conjunction appear more probable than one of its constituents. This phenomenon is demonstrated in a variety of contexts including estimation of word frequency, personality judgment, medical
Socio-political Contexts, Identity Formation and Regulatory Compliance
- Administration and Society
, 2008
"... This article attempts to fill the gaps in traditional compliance theories and argues that the actor’s identity formulated by socio-political contexts influ-ences the propensity to move toward or away from compliance. Although regulated entities are sometimes instrumentally rational or norms oriented ..."
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This article attempts to fill the gaps in traditional compliance theories and argues that the actor’s identity formulated by socio-political contexts influ-ences the propensity to move toward or away from compliance. Although regulated entities are sometimes instrumentally rational or norms
Legislation, Political Context, and Interest Group Behavior
, 2008
"... It is well documented that the number of interest groups lobbying a piece of legislation in Congress varies greatly. While most legislation generates little to no activity, the number of groups interested in a bill can grow into the hundreds. The challenge for scholars is to explain these behavioral ..."
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these behavioral differences. Using a population ecology approach to explain interest-group populations, it is argued that the number of groups lobbying a bill is influenced by the political context. Using data generated by the Lobbying Disclosure Act, this article demonstrates how the actions of members
Political Context of Education Finance in the United States
"... The political landscape in school finance has undergone significant chang-es in the United States in recent years. It was only a generation ago that the state government assumed the primary funding responsibility in public schools, public agencies at the state and local level “monopolized ” service ..."
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delivery, and many reform initiatives did not consider student achievement as the key mea-sure of accountability. In recent years, rising public demand for educational accountability has changed the political context. This paper will revisit the po-litical underpinnings of school finance. The paper
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