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Designing Federalism

A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions

By: Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova

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Designing Federalism

A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions

By: Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova

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0521016487

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Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Moving Outside the Electoral Arena

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

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Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Moving Outside the Electoral Arena

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

How much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections?

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Cambridge University Press

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0521765838

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9780521765831

Formal Modeling in Social Science

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

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Formal Modeling in Social Science

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

A formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for controlled experimentation, and can lead to hypotheses. Yet more importantly, models evaluate theory, build theory, and enhance conjectures. Formal Modeling in Social Science addresses the varied helpful roles of formal models and goes further to take up more fundamental considerations of epistemology and methodology. The authors integrate the exposition of the epistemology and the methodology of modeling and argue that these two reinforce each other. They illustrate the process of designing an original model suited to the puzzle at hand, using multiple methods in diverse substantive areas of inquiry. The authors also emphasize the crucial, though underappreciated, role of a narrative in the progression from theory to model. Transparency of assumptions and steps in a model means that any analyst will reach equivalent predictions whenever she replicates the argument. Hence, models enable theoretical replication, essential in the accumulation of knowledge. Formal Modeling in Social Science speaks to scholars in different career stages and disciplines and with varying expertise in modeling.

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257

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University of Michigan Press

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0472054236

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9780472054237

University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

By: Olga Bain

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University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

By: Olga Bain

This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that utilizes its autonomous discretion to institute innovations that build on its potential so as to overcome adverse situations.

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301

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Routledge

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1135954399

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9781135954390

Parallel Cultures

Majority/Minority Relations in the Countries of the Former Eastern Bloc

By: Christopher Lord,Olga Strietska-Ilina

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Parallel Cultures

Majority/Minority Relations in the Countries of the Former Eastern Bloc

By: Christopher Lord,Olga Strietska-Ilina

This title was first published in 2001. This stimulating and well-written text is particularly suitable as a subsidiary text for courses in politics, sociology and ethnic studies.

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1351752308

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Sulfate Karst of Perm Region (Russia)

By: Nikolay Maksimovich,Olga Kadebskaya,Olga Meshcheriakova

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Sulfate Karst of Perm Region (Russia)

By: Nikolay Maksimovich,Olga Kadebskaya,Olga Meshcheriakova

The book provides a characteristic of sulfate karst, the features of its distribution and development in the Perm region, based on their own research and generalization of data accumulated in recent years. An updated zoning of the territory is given, partly based on the use of GIS technologies. This book also offers a detailed description of areas with characteristics of geological and hydrogeological conditions for the development of karst and karst phenomena. Besides, it also provides a detailed description of a number of caves, information about specially protected natural areas associated with sulfate karst and new unique objects that need protection. The book describes the influence of karst on economic activity and the ecological situation. The publication is intended for geologists, geographers, ecologists, karst scientists, speleologists, local historians, teachers and students of specialties related to earth sciences, as well as a wide range of karst and cave enthusiasts.

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Springer Nature

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3031189728

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9783031189722

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Moving Outside the Electoral Arena

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

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Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Moving Outside the Electoral Arena

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: how much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244285

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Designing Federalism

A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions

By: Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova

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A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions

By: Mikhail Filippov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Olga Shvetsova

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Formal Modeling in Social Science

By: Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova

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University of Michigan Press

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Designing Federalism

Designing Federalism

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Formal Modeling in Social Science

Formal Modeling in Social Science

University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

Parallel Cultures

Parallel Cultures

Sulfate Karst of Perm Region (Russia)

Sulfate Karst of Perm Region (Russia)

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide

Designing Federalism

Designing Federalism

Formal Modeling in Social Science

Formal Modeling in Social Science

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