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Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.

By: George Hawley

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Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.

By: George Hawley

In recent years, political scientists and journalists have taken a great interest in the question of whether the American electorate is "sorting" into communities based on partisan affiliation. That is, there is concern that American communities are becoming increasingly politically homogenous and this is because Americans are considering politics explicitly when determining where to live. Academics have since debated the degree to which this is a real phenomenon and, if it is, whether it has important normative implications. However, little empirical research has examined which factors turned some closely-contested counties into Republican enclaves and others into Democratic strongholds. Examining individual and aggregate data and employing a large number of statistical methods, George Hawley explores the increasing political homogenization of small geographic units and explains the causal mechanisms driving this phenomenon as well as its consequences for individual political attitudes and behavior among residents residing in these geographic units. He argues that some partisans are self-selecting into communities of likeminded partisans, causing some areas to become overwhelmingly Republican and others to become overwhelmingly Democratic. The book also notes that the migratory patterns of Republicans and Democrats differ in systematic ways for other reasons, due to the different demographic and economic characteristics of these partisan groups. At a time when many studies argue that a large percentage of the electorate is self-selecting into communities based on their political preferences, this bookshelf essential presents a much needed account on the different migratory patterns of Republicans and Democrats and how these patterns are shaping the geography of American politics.

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Routledge

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1135044058

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9781135044053

Linear Regression Analysis

By: George A. F. Seber,Alan J. Lee

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Linear Regression Analysis

By: George A. F. Seber,Alan J. Lee

Concise, mathematically clear, and comprehensive treatment of the subject. * Expanded coverage of diagnostics and methods of model fitting. * Requires no specialized knowledge beyond a good grasp of matrix algebra and some acquaintance with straight-line regression and simple analysis of variance models. * More than 200 problems throughout the book plus outline solutions for the exercises. * This revision has been extensively class-tested.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118274423

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At the Margins

Presidential Leadership of Congress

By: George C. Edwards

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At the Margins

Presidential Leadership of Congress

By: George C. Edwards

In this book George Edwards seeks a deeper understanding of the relationship between the president and Congress, exploring how and under what conditions presidents lead Congress, what we can reasonably expect of them, and how we should evaluate their performance. He makes a persuasive case for his thesis that presidential leadership of Congress is typically at the margins, not the core, of policymaking. Edwards focuses on three important resources for presidential leadership: party, public opinion, and legislative skills. For each source of influence he analyzes the president's strategic position, the theoretical potential of the resource as an instrument of leadership. He then examines presidents' attempts to employ each resource to obtain support in Congress, showing that they are rarely able to expand their resource base or manipulate their resources reliably. Integrating quantitative analysis with documentary and historical research, Edwards argues that the effective leader is not the dominant chief executive of political folklore who restructures the contours of the political landscape to pave the way for change but is rather a facilitator who works at the margins of coalition building to exploit opportunities presented by a favorable configuration of political forces in his environment. Presidents are not by themselves going to bring about major changes in public policy, says Edwards, and we must adjust accordingly our expectations of their leadership. The implications of his book are broad, and his findings are an important corrective for those who personalize politics and attribute more influence to a single person or strategy than is usually merited.

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Yale University Press

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0300048998

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9780300048995

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

By: Alexander L. George,Andrew Bennett

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Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

By: Alexander L. George,Andrew Bennett

The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.

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MIT Press

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0262262894

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9780262262897

The Moderate Majority

Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization

By: George Hawley

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The Moderate Majority

Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization

By: George Hawley

The Moderate Majority examines the Republican electorate and challenges the conventional narrative that today’s Republicans are all radicalized, reactionary ideologues. It illuminates the substantial gap between the elites and diverse, mostly moderate rank-and-file GOP voters. With a historically grounded, mixed-methods approach that draws on a rich collection of empirical survey data and face-to-face interviews, this book presents a comprehensive portrait of contemporary mass Republican opinion and behavior.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111469727

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9783111469720

Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science

By: George Maroulis,Theodore Simos

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Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science

By: George Maroulis,Theodore Simos

This volume contains a collection of the lectures of the invited speakers and symposium organizers presented at the International Conference of Computational methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006), held in Chania, Greece, October 2006. The content of the papers bears upon new developments of Computational Science pertinent to Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Mathematics and Engineering. Molecular Science is a privileged ground for the application and evaluation of new mathematical tools and computational methods. In recent years, novelty and progress with greatest conceivable speed is common experience. This flavor of research findings carrying many consequences for distant fields is easily evidenced in the lectures collected in this volume.

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CRC Press

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9004155414

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Spatio-temporal Networks

Modeling and Algorithms

By: Betsy George,Sangho Kim

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Spatio-temporal Networks

Modeling and Algorithms

By: Betsy George,Sangho Kim

Spatio-temporal networks (STN)are spatial networks whose topology and/or attributes change with time. These are encountered in many critical areas of everyday life such as transportation networks, electric power distribution grids, and social networks of mobile users. STN modeling and computations raise significant challenges. The model must meet the conflicting requirements of simplicity and adequate support for efficient algorithms. Another challenge is to address the change in the semantics of common graph operations, such as, shortest path computation assuming different semantics, or when temporal dimension is added. Also paradigms (e.g. dynamic programming) used in algorithm design may be ineffective since their assumptions (e.g. stationary ranking of candidates) may be violated by the dynamic nature of STNs. In recent years, STNs have attracted attention in research. New representations have been proposed along with algorithms to perform key STN operations, while accounting for their time dependence. Designing a STN database would require the development of data models, query languages, and indexing methods to efficiently represent, query, store, and manage time-variant properties of the network. The purpose of Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms is to explore this design at the conceptual, logical, and physical level. Models used to represent STNs are explored and analyzed. STN operations, with an emphasis on their altered semantics with the addition of temporal dimension, are also addressed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461449189

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Hell's Highway

A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944

By: George Koskimaki

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Hell's Highway

A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944

By: George Koskimaki

The author of The Battered Bastards of Bastogne does a “superb job of telling the history the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden” (Kepler’s Book Reviews). Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the Screaming Eagles’ part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands. Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections to make a compelling and uniquely first-hand account of the bravery and deprivations suffered by the troops, and their hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies, as well as those of Dutch civilians caught up in the action. There have been many books published on Operation Market Garden and there will surely be more. This book, however, gets to the heart of the action. The “big picture,” which most histories paint, here is just the context for the real history on the ground.

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Open Road Media

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1480406597

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9781480406599

Federal Reserve System

Background, Analyses and Bibliography

By: George B. Grey

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Federal Reserve System

Background, Analyses and Bibliography

By: George B. Grey

If English is rapidly becoming the international language of choice and necessity, the dollar is racing ahead as the world's currency. This somewhat astonishing development is due in large part to the actions, and deliberate non-actions, of the Federal Reserve. This organisation is responsible for tweaking, pushing and pulling the financial and economic infrastructure of America when it deems it necessary. Its moves and non-moves are scrutinised, analysed, and criticised. This new book offers an in-depth presentation of the proposes and functions of the Federal reserve, several analytical articles and an in-depth bibliography.

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Nova Publishers

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1590330536

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Sentimental Citizen

Emotion in Democratic Politics

By: George E. Marcus

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Sentimental Citizen

Emotion in Democratic Politics

By: George E. Marcus

An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.

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Penn State Press

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0271045981

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Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.

Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.

Linear Regression Analysis

Linear Regression Analysis

At the Margins

At the Margins

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

The Moderate Majority

The Moderate Majority

Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science

Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science

Spatio-temporal Networks

Spatio-temporal Networks

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway

Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve System

Sentimental Citizen

Sentimental Citizen

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