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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Dictator"”.
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The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy
<p><em>The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy </em>explores the power of the dictator novel in Latinx literature, specifically within the young adult fantasy genre. Drawing upon the work of Jennifer Harford-Vargas to examine the relationship between the forms of power and the power of the …
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Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980
… conservatives openly supported was the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.</p> <p>The new catholic conservatives identified Franco as a counterrevolutionary, firm in his convictions and devout in his Catholic faith, who rescued Spain from the clutches of communism, atheism, and the left. Against …
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Revealed and Hidden Social Preferences
… identity on economic decision-making through Dictator Game and Lying Dictator Game experiments conducted in different cultural contexts. The research compares students from Chapman University (USA) and Wuhan University (China), with each participant informed of their counterpart’s university …
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The effects of a microcomputer-assisted instructional program on the ability of college choral ensemble members to sing melodic configurations at sight
… with the microcomputer program, MELODIOUS DICTATOR, was constructed consisting of three non-consecutive fifteen-minute periods per week for all experimental group participants. The control group attended choral rehearsals with the experimental group but had no exposure to the computer …
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The Production and Evaluation of Evidence in Experimental Economics
… our replication of Engel's (2011) meta-study of dictator game experiments. Using his data and statistical models, we determine his results to be robust with one important exception. In Engel's report, the effects of the take-option on giving are statistically insignificant. By contrast, we find …
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Essays on political accountability in non-democratic regimes
… protect their jobs. Therefore, if the previous dictator's party has a substantial probability of winning the election, appointed leaders will promote their electoral chances, which could become an impediment for the process of democratic consolidation. In contrast, elected local officials have a …
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The Gowers norm in the testing of Boolean functions
… our contribution as follows. We present a new dictatorship test that determines whether the function is a dictator (of the form f(x) = xi for some coordinate i), or a function that is an "anti-dictator." Our test is "adaptive," makes q queries, has completeness 1, and soundness O(q3) 2??q. …
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Studies and Experiments in Labor and Education Economics
… level of inate discrimination in virtual reality dictator games. Individual abstracts can be found at the beginning of each chapter.
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A friendly offer – fairness and social embeddedness = Baráti ajánlat – méltányosság és társadalmi beágyazottság)
… between fairness and embeddedness using dictator and ultimatum games. / === / Értekezésem fő kérdése tehát a méltányossági normák és a társadalmi beágyazottság (barátság) vizsgálata kísérleti eszközök segítségével. Egy – az eddigiektől nagymértékben eltérő – kísérleti módszert alkalmazok, …
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
… investigations since the first appearance of the dictator game, which pointed out that, when people have to allocate resources and determine their own and others' payoffs, they decide accordingly to some well-defined distributional preferences. These, depending on the decisional setting and on …
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The effects of reputation on collaboration
… reputations impacted collaboration in an online dictator game. Previous research shows that human participants in dictator games are more generous towards players with a positive reputation. In our study (n = 260), the participant played a multi-round trivia game with three "agents" (presented as …
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Guatemala's perfect storm : the relationship between General Efraín Ríos Montt, the news media, and the U.S religious right.
… U.S. conservative evangelicals and a Guatemalan dictator.
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Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948
… Mercury stage success, Julius Caesar: Death of a Dictator, for other media, including radio and phonograph recording. Chapter Five revises previous views of Welles' most ambitious Shakespearean project, the Mercury Text Shakespeare series. Chapter Six offers a new sound-based perspective on …
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Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland
… 15,000 Haitians ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937 is the event that brought attention to the border nationalization process. In my research I argue that the conflict between the two countries had both an economic and a racial base and that the closure and definition …
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Social capital and social entrepreneurship : analysing links and implications for sustainability in third sector organisations in West Bengal
… The study also observed the ‘benevolent dictator’ leadership style. The ‘benevolent dictator’ failed to create a learning organisation, and so the villagers had no organizational ability or social agency, which then placed organisational sustainability at risk. However, both types of …
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Party of the Century: Juárez, Díaz, and the End of the "Unifying Liberal Myth" in 1906 Oaxaca
… of Mexico have argued that Díaz, a veritable dictator, used national celebrations and civic ceremonies throughout his presidency to foster nationalism among the populace. As such, this celebration provides an important entryway into the debates among historians over hegemony and state …
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Experiments on emotions, matching, and decision-making
… beliefs in two classical choice situations: a dictator game and an effort task.
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Motive Selection and Lying Aversion in a Coin Flip Game: An Experimental Approach to Preference Switching
… on prior work on lying aversion and lying-dictator games, the test varies to elicit the discrepancy between lying aversion and equality. Allocations to each player’s material payoff, introduces of equal or unequal treatment and involved and indifferent treatments. Using a simple …
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Psychopathic Traits and Endocrine Function as Predictors of Costly and Non-Costly Reactive Aggression
… noncostly aggression was measured using one-shot dictator games. In women (n = 97; M age = 19.86 years), greater SCI and lower baseline estradiol predicted greater costly aggression; also, greater FD predicted greater non-costly aggression, particularly among women with lower SCI. In men (n = 104; …
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Leadership and School Success: The Practices and Behaviors of Principals in Successful At-risk Schools
… students; the principal is sometimes a "benign dictator" who makes decisions without the consideration of the teachers, and the primary job of the principal is instructional leader. Some of the recommendations propose that principals in at-risk schools know and articulate a vision for their …
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