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Deliberate about, not in, Elections
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2013)Election law should focus less on deliberation in elections and more on deliberation about elections. Promoting deliberative elections is problematic because it runs against the competitive nature of campaigns, frustrates ... -
Deliberating Democratization with Tocqueville: The Case of East Asia
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Deliberation Erodes Cooperative Behavior — Even Towards Competitive Out-Groups, Even When Using a Control Condition, and Even When Eliminating Selection Bias
(Elsevier BV, 2017-11)By many accounts cooperation appears to be a default strategy in social interaction. There are, however, several documented instances in which reflexive responding favors aggressive behaviors: for example, interactions ... -
Deliberative Democratic Theory and Empirical Political Science
(Annual Reviews, 2008-06-01)Although empirical studies of deliberative democracy have proliferated in the past decade, too few have addressed the questions that are most significant in the normative theories. At the same time, many theorists have ... -
Delineating genome alterations in cancer with long-read and linked-read sequencing
(2023-06-01)Cancer is driven by alterations to the genome. The continued invention and application of new methods has gradually enhanced our ability to characterize of genome alterations in cancer with much greater scale and resolution. ... -
Delineating HIV-1 Evolutionary Pathways in an Individual With a Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Response
(2020-09-08)Despite the identification of potent broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against HIV-1, such as VRC01 and VRC13, the induction of bNAbs through vaccination remains hindered due to an incomplete understanding of the ... -
Delivering Across Boundaries: Social and Structural Features of Service Integration
(2018-05-14)The ability to integrate services across settings and time is increasingly important for healthcare delivery organizations. This dissertation explores the organizational structures and social behaviors that enable service ... -
Delivering Heparin-Binding Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 with Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2015)Heparin-binding insulin-like growth factor 1 (HB-IGF-1) is a fusion protein of IGF-1 with the HB domain of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor. A single dose of HB-IGF-1 has been shown to bind ... -
Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance
(2013-02-19)Traditionally recognized as the first of the great Buddhist treasure revealers, Nyang-rel Nyima Özer (1124-1192) historiographically reconstructed the Imperium into a golden age of Tibetan Buddhism. An analysis of his two ... -
Delivering the Right Amount of Care – Sometimes Less Is More
(2017-05-15)New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases, these improvements cause unintended consequences by leading to the diagnosis of indolent or otherwise ... -
Delta C-13 Stratigraphy of the Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup, Baffin Island, Canada: Implications for Regional Lithostratigraphic Correlations
(National Research Council Canada, 1999)The Bylot Supergroup, northern Baffin Island, contains >1500 m of platform, shelf, and slope carbonates deposited between similar to 1270 and similar to 723 Ma. Limited chronostratigraphic data have led to the broad ... -
The Demand for Literature in France, 1769–1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive
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Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
(2014-10-21)This dissertation investigates the dynamics of mass attitudes toward redistributive social policies in post-industrial democracies: How have these attitudes changed over time? What factors and mechanisms drive these changes? ... -
Democracy and the University: America and the Reconstruction of German Higher Education, 1945-1966
(2023-06-01)This dissertation explores the intellectual and practical debates over the role of the university in a democratic society by examining the reconstruction and reorientation of German universities in the aftermath of the ... -
Democracy Beyond Disclosure: Secrecy, Transparency, and the Logic of Self-Government
(2017-01-19)"Transparency" is the constant refrain of democratic politics, a promised aid to accountability and integrity in public life. Secrecy is stigmatized as a work of corruption, tolerable (if at all) by a compromise of democratic ... -
Democracy in Africa: A Very Short History
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)When discussing governance in Africa, one must be circumspect when applying the term "democracy." One reason for doing so is because the term is imprecise. However, while differing in the attributes they posit and the ... -
Democracy, Technology, and Growth
(2007)We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we ... -
Democratic Equality in the Misinformation Age
(2022-11-23)Conventional wisdom blames the “epistemic crisis” of American politics on the leveling force of social media and the collapse of traditional gatekeepers. This dissertation argues democracy’s vulnerability to misinformation ... -
Democratic Inefficiency? Regime Type and Suboptimal Choices in International Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2012)This article examines the relationship between regime type and decision makers’ tendency to make suboptimal choices in international crises. To test hypotheses on the optimality of democratic foreign policy, the author ... -
Democratic Performances: How Theater Creates the People
(2023-06-01)This work offers the concept of “democratic performance” as a corollary of “people’s theater.” “People’s theater” is a branch of the performing arts that aims to engage a particular audience, which is made of new spectators, ...