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The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism
Why are some electoral authoritarian regimes immune to democratization for decades while others not? This article explores the impact of executive...
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Introduction: Fertility and Social Inequalities in Migrant Populations: a Look at the Roles of Selection, Context of Reception, and Employment
This paper is the introduction to the Special Issue on “Fertility and social inequalities in migrant populations.” The Special Issue contains twelve...
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When less conditioning provides better estimates: overcontrol and endogenous selection biases in research on intergenerational mobility
The counterfactual approach to causality has become the dominant approach to understand causality in contemporary social science research. Whilst...
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Applying the Repertory Grid Technique to Advance Nonprofit Collaboration: A Situational Theory of Partner Selection
A truism of modern organizational life is that organizations collaborate. They may collaborate to meet client needs, acquire resources, or gain...
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Revisiting the Impact Evaluation of Women’s Empowerment: A MCDM-Based Evaluation Indicator Selection Framework Proposal
Women’s empowerment programs play a critical role in achieving the United Nations’ (UN’s) sustainable development goal of “Gender Equality”. However,...
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Migration, Partner Selection, and Fertility in Germany: How Many Children are Born in Mixed Unions?
For the German context, we investigate whether the number of children ever born differs between mixed unions (exogamous unions between natives and...
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Getting It Right? The Site Selection Process for Canada’s High-level Nuclear Waste
This chapter focuses on assessment and risk management of the site selection process for Canada’s permanent high-level waste management facility for...
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Sexual Selection After Mating: Turning Perceptions of Female Agency
This chapter investigates the emergence and the scientific community’s reception of the equivalent male and female hypotheses about sexual selection...
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Material Sense: Perceptual Experience in Stone and Mineral Selection for Tool-Making
Enactivism advocates for the dynamic character of human perception, regarding it as a multidirectional network comprising human presence and...
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A network model for multiple selection questions in opinion surveys
Opinion surveys can contain closed questions to which respondents can give multiple answers. We propose to model these data as networks in which...
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Moderators of reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: a meta-analytic model selection approach
The effect of seller reputation on seller success in peer-to-peer online markets has been investigated in dozens of studies by means of the analysis...
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Identification of the most important external features of highly cited scholarly papers through 3 (i.e., Ridge, Lasso, and Boruta) feature selection data mining methods
Highly cited papers are influenced by external factors that are not directly related to the document's intrinsic quality. In this study, 50...
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Practicality and Ideology: Examining Site Selection for American Children’s Institutions
This chapter examines whether changing cultural beliefs about American childhood translated into changes in practice at children’s institutions....
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Gis-based simulation for solar farm site selection in south-central Vietnam
This research aims to develop a GIS-based simulation for choosing the best location for a solar farm in Binh Thuan province, which is in the low,...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage: Negative Parental Selection, Economic Upheaval, and Smoking
Recessions negatively impact the health of individuals experiencing hardship. In this paper, we investigate whether there are also long-term effects...
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Social Media Screening and Procedural Justice: Towards Fairer Use of Social Media in Selection
Companies have started using social media for screening applicants in the selection process. Thereby, they enter a low-cost source of information on...
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Overview and Selection of Research Methodology and Methods
Research is not just the “gathering of facts or information”, “moving facts from one situation to another”, or “a word to get your product noticed”...
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A proposal for the selection of green building standards through the analytical hierarchy process (AHP): a roadmap for green hotels in Turkey
The concept of a “sustainable hotel” or in the other words “green hotel” means that it is built with environmentally friendly, local, and recyclable...
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Does Immigrant Selection Policy Matter? Labor Market Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel and the United States
Immigration policy debates currently focus on restricting immigration in favor of the highly skilled with the assumption that highly skilled...
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Migration and Contraception among Mexican Women: Assessing Selection, Disruption, and Adaptation
Despite the sizeable impact of migration on childbearing, less is known about how it shapes contraceptive use undergirding fertility. We utilize...
