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The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics 不良数据的政治经济学:来自非洲调查和行政统计的证据

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2014-07-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2466028

J. Sandefur, A. Glassman

引用次数: 67

American Exceptionalism or Declinism: Lessons in Leadership and Ethics from the Twelve ‘Minor’ Prophets 《美国例外论还是衰落论:从十二位“小”先知那里学到的领导和伦理教训

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2014-07-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2461524

Hershey H. Friedman, M. Gerstein, P. Fenster

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Локальное Научно-Техническое Сообщество Как Объект Партийного Контроля: Случай Обнинска (Local Technical and Scientific Community as an Object of Party Control: The Case of Obninsk)

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2014-06-23 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2585939

Roman I Khandozhko

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The Soviet Union Outgoing Tourism in 1955-1985: Volume, Geography, Organizational Forms 1955-1985年苏联出境旅游:数量、地理、组织形式

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2014-04-29 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2430667

I. Orlov

引用次数: 5

Obstacles to Increasing Tax Revenues in Low Income Countries 低收入国家增加税收的障碍

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2436437

M. Moore

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引用次数: 68

Why We Need a European Social Union 为什么我们需要一个欧洲社会联盟

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2013-11-29 DOI: 10.3917/RPVE.522.0097

F. Vandenbroucke

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引用次数: 2

Models of Groupthink: A Search for a Proper Perspective of the Groupthink Causal Chain 群体思维模型:寻找群体思维因果链的正确视角

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2013-07-24 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2297772

Shanmugam Munuswamy, A. Venkataraman

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Calibrating Cultural Lenses: Socio-Economic Participation, Identity and Migration Policy Shifts 校准文化镜头:社会经济参与、身份和移民政策转变

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2012-04-21 DOI: 10.1163/9789004244740_004

J. Arraiza

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Political Discourse in Football Coverage - the Cases of Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana 足球报道中的政治话语- Côte科特迪瓦和加纳的案例

AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic) Pub Date : 2006-08-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.932569

A. Mehler

引用次数: 5