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Elementary forms and their dynamics: revisiting Mary Douglas
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-08-05)
Mary Douglas's oeuvre furnishes the social sciences with one of the most profound and ambitious bodies of social theory ever to emerge from within anthropology. This article uses the occasion of the publication of Fardon's ...
Explaining decision-making in government: the neo-Durkheimian institutional framework
(Wiley Online, 2014-03)
In understanding styles of political judgement in government decision-making, explanatory limitations of rational choice, prospect theoretic, historical institutional, groupthink, and other approaches suggest that there ...
Unintended, unanticipated or unexpected consequences of policy and surprises for government: understanding how bias and process shape causation – comparing British governments, 1959-74
(Wiley Online, 2014-04-22)
The vulnerability of policymaking to unintended and unanticipated consequences has been documented since Thucydides. Yet we still lack integrated conceptual and explanatory accounts of their variety and aetiology. Adequate ...
Exploring the adaptive voter model dynamics with a mathematical triple jump
(IOP Publishing, 2014-09-25)
Progress in theoretical physics is often made by the investigation of toy models, the model organisms of physics, which provide benchmarks for new methodologies. For complex systems, one such model is the adaptive voter ...
Mobile Devices and Recording in the Classroom:
(IGI Global, 2014)
Weighted Multiplex Networks
(2014-06-06)