DEMOCRACY, AUTHORITARIANISM, AND POLICY PUNCTUATIONS

Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Policy Punctuations

Do democracies perform better than more autocratic political systems? Most existing literature focuses on single issues, such as maintaining the peace, avoiding famines, or promoting stable economic growth.The key to policy success for all these and other issues is adaptive policymaking in complex, dynamic environments.Relying on theory and empiric

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The Spatial-Comprehensiveness (S-COM) Index: Identifying Optimal Spatial Extents in Volunteered Geographic Information Point Datasets

Social media and other forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI) are used frequently as a source of fine-grained big data for research.While employing geographically referenced social media data for a wide array of purposes has become commonplace, the relevant scales over which these data apply to is typically unknown.For researchers to use

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Plea for Diagonals and Telescopers of Rational Functions

This paper is a plea Bathroom Accessories for diagonals and telescopers of rational or algebraic functions using creative telescoping, using a computer algebra experimental mathematics learn-by-examples approach.We show that diagonals of rational functions (and this is also the case with diagonals of algebraic functions) are left-invariant when one

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