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Showing 1 to 20 of 599 for “"Coalition"”.
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War by coalition : the effects of coalition military institutionalization on coalition battlefield effectiveness
… for variation in the military performance of coalitions and alliances on the battlefield? This dissertation presents and tests a realist-institutionalist theory of coalition military effectiveness, which accounts for both the process of capability aggregation within military coalitions and its …
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Coalition Formation In Multi-agent Uav Systems
Coalitions are collections of agents that join together to solve a common problem that either cannot be solved individually or can be solved more efficiently as a group. Each individual agent has capabilities that can benefit the group when working together as a coalition. Typically, individual …
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Essays on economic design and coalition formation
… consists of three essays on economic design and coalition formation. The first chapter studies the stability of many-to-one matching, such as matching between students and colleges or interns and hospitals. Complementarities and peer effects are inherent in many such matching situations. The …
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Essays on coalition formation under asymmetric information
… Bayesian framework. In doing this, since the coalition formation itself suffers information asymmetry problems, we assume that the coalition is formed if the colluding parties can successfully find some coalitional mechanism whose outcome is a set of messages in the original mechanism. …
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Israeli Coalition Governments: Formation and Duration (1949-1999)
… to the formation and duration of Israeli coalition governments. Most importantly, it differentiates between two historical periods that have shaped Israeli coalition politics. Prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the election of the 7th Israeli Knesset in 1969, Israeli political parties …
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Algorithms for coalition formation in multi-agent systems
Coalition formation is a fundamental form of interaction that allows the creation of coherent groupings of distinct, autonomous, agents in order to efficiently achieve their individual or collective goals. Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent …
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Negotiating identity within the Sustainable Agriculture Advocacy Coalition
Three prominent national coalition efforts to promote sustainable agriculture are examined: the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Integrated Farm and Food Systems Network, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education …
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Presidential Campaigns, White Evangelicals, and the New Republican Coalition
… during the 1980s of a Republican Party coalition prominently including white evangelicals. First, Republican candidates have been willing to express support for the traditional morality issues and attitudes which are the cornerstone of the white evangelical agenda. They have been …
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The Effects of Resources and Alternatives on Coalition Formation
The formation of coalitions is an important social phenomenon which pervades every level of our lives, from the interpersonal to the international. Previous research has suggested that coalition formation is influenced both by the players' resources and by their alternative coalitions. Unfortu
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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Coalition, 1968-1980
… Michel Foucault as a thinker of political coalition. Because he valued difference and rejected totalising schemes, Foucault’s post-structuralist political thought is usually associated with particularity and social fragmentation. I show that this is a very partial framing. Across the 1970s, …
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Voluntary municipal coalition--a case study in regional planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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A comparison of coalition bargaining and the selective strike technique
… the effectiveness of this technique with coalition bargaining as has been used in other industries for the purpose of gaining greater equality with management at the bargaining table. The purpose of the study was, first, to determine if the selective strike is legal and does not represent …
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Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
… means to move from virtual community to embodied coalition. I assert that the sustainability of the fat acceptance grassroots community is contingent on the collective shift towards fat activist efforts and coalition practices that are intersectional approach and multi-issue in framework. </p>
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