Week 7 October 25: Regime type as a source of regime stability/instability This week’s readings all deal with attempting to qualify the ways in which different types of regimes either support or undermine stability of the authoritarian regime. The first reading‚ by Geddes‚ is a broad survey of types of authoritarian regimes (personalistic‚ military or single party) how each democratize differently. Geddes finds evidence that in all cases‚ economic development is likely to increase democratization
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Introduction Gary Gutting‚ the author of the article‚ What Makes Free Will Free? deliberates that we do not have free choice as we assumed which a researcher confirmed. By free choice‚ this means the conviction that our conduct is dictated by our own unrestrained choice and that we have complete power over our activities. Also‚ Gary Gutting examined various thoughts on determinism as the researchers suggested. Determinism refers to the conviction that all human conduct or any other occurrences have
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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The slave trade was present in America even before its official founding‚ dating back to the Spanish Conquistadors in Caribbean and Florida during the early late 1400s and early 1500s. From the beginning of European settlement of the Americas slaves were used to manage crops and preform menial labor while being treated worse than the animals owned by the fame person. The slave trade grew with time‚ especially in the South where large farms were reliant on slaves to produce the crops. Despite attempts
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1 MARKET POTENTIAL ANALYSIS: A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING THE MARKET POTENTIAL FOR COMPUTERS AND OTHER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations University of California‚ Irvine Irvine‚ CA 92697 May 1998 Working Paper: #ITR-149 This research was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation and IBM Global Services. 2 ABSTRACT This paper describes a methodology for estimating
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One of the issues that had prevented Augustine’s conversions was the issue of sin and human accountability for their actions. As a result‚ Augustine’s Confessions tackles many theological issues‚ among which is the idea of human free will. Augustine’s views on human free will are linked with how he interprets sin and human nature. Because Augustine defines sin as a turning-away from God‚ Augustine certainly implies that humans have the choice and ability to turn away from God and thus have the ability
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JBT Task 5 (0515) Fat‚ which is commonly defined as oil‚ have both good and bad affect on our overall health. No matter what type of diet plan we follow‚ we do intake some amount of fat with our diet. Fat‚ overall‚ is good for our health as it is a type of nutrient that helps body drives energy. At the time of any physical activity‚ our body uses calories from fat to keep the body moving and to keep is energetic. We feel drained out when our body is out of energy‚ which often happens in the case
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furnished a more precise formulation of the theory of international trade. At the centre of the Ricardian theory of international trade is the celebrated principle of comparative advantage of "doctrine of comparative costs." In fact‚ the doctrine of comparative costs was developed by Ricardo out of his (classical) labour theory of value. According to this theory‚ the value of any commodity is determined by its labour costs. It asserts that‚ goods are exchanged against one another according
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What Is the Real Cost Of Employee Turnover The employee turnover rate and the retention of skilled employees is a major problem businesses face. "Conservative estimates put the cost of replacing a lost employee at 25 percent of the annual compensation amount. For the typical full time employee who earns $38‚481 and receives $50‚025 in total compensation‚ the total cost of turnover would amount to $12‚506 per employee." This being the case employee turnover is a major cost and can significantly
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Martin Robertson and Mary Beard’s manuscript‚ Adopting an Approach‚ focuses on the study of Athenian pottery. The manuscript begins‚ by describing Sir John Beazley and his revolutionary method of studying Greek vases. The Beazley Method focuses on the technical conventions of Greek Vases such as naming the artist‚ dating the pieces and then grouping them based off of similar characteristics. Beazley “provided for the first time a comprehensive framework of analysis for Athenian painting‚ and a way
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