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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, ... -
Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections
(Cambridge University Press, 1987)T h e translation of citizen votes into legislative seats is of central importance in democratic electoral systems. It has been a longstanding concern among scholars in political science and in numerous other disciplines. ... -
Democratic Theory and the Question of Character
(2013-02-12)This dissertation uses the history of political thought to shed light on the disconnect between the prominent place of judgments about the character in American democratic life, and the marginalized place of those judgments ... -
Democratic Transitions
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)Przeworski et al. (2000) challenge the key hypothesis in modernization theory: political regimes do not transition to democracy as per capita incomes rise, they argue. Rather, democratic transitions occur randomly, but ... -
Democratization, Women's Movements, and Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison
(SAGE Publications, 2008)There is a rich collection of case studies examining the relationship between democratization, women's movements, and gendered state outcomes, but the variation across cases is still poorly understood. In response, this ... -
Democratizing Money: A Political Theory of Policymaking
(2022-06-06)Political theorists have long wrestled with the appropriate role for experts in democracy. Several recent popular movements have sought to reject expert rule by promising to “take back control” or “topple neoliberal elites.” ... -
A Demographic estimate of the population of the Qing eight banners
(2016)The Eight Banners (Chinese baqi 八旗/Manchu jakūn gūsa) is well known as the omnibus military, social, political, and economic institution that played a crucial role in enabling the Manchu conquest of China in the middle ...