Ask Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ASK.V29I1.0002

M. Bojanowski, Bartosz Chrol

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Back Matter (Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020) 后刊(2020年第29卷第1期)

Ask Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v29i1.0007

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Longitudinal Surveys for Comparative Analyses of Poland and Romania: The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), 2013–2018 and the Romanian World Values Survey Panel (WVS-RO), 2012–2018 波兰和罗马尼亚比较分析的纵向调查:波兰小组调查(POLPAN)， 2013-2018和罗马尼亚世界价值观调查小组(WVS-RO)， 2012-2018

Ask Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ASK.V29I1.0003

K. Slomczynski, M. Voicu, Joshua K. Dubrow, S. Stănescu, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow

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Front Matter (Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020) 前沿内容(2020年第29卷第1期)

Ask Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v29i1.0006

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Explaining the Policy Constraints of Anti-democratic Regimes by Means of Sequential OLS-Regressions 用序贯ols回归解释反民主政权的政策约束

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0003

G. Mueller

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Exploratory Fieldwork on Balconies as Threshold Spaces on the Juliusz Słowacki housing estate in Lublin 卢布林Juliusz Słowacki住宅区阳台作为门槛空间的探索性田野调查

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0004

Natalia Otrishchenko

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Back Matter (Volume 28, Issue 1, 2019) 后刊(2019年第28卷第1期)

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0007

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Between fallacy and feasibility? Dealing with the risk of ecological fallacies in the quantitative study of protest mobilization and conflict 在谬论和可行性之间?在抗议动员和冲突的定量研究中处理生态谬误的风险

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0002

Leila Demarest, A. Langer, B. Meuleman

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Using Web Probing to Elucidate Respondents' Understanding of 'Minorities' in Cross-Cultural Comparative Research 跨文化比较研究中被调查者对“少数民族”的理解

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0001

Michael Braun, Dorothée Behr, Katharina Meitinger, Klara Raiber, Lydia Repke

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Front Matter (Volume 28, Issue 1, 2019) 前沿内容(2019年第28卷第1期)

Ask Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18061/ask.v28i1.0006

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