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Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands: an analysis of the problem and review of the literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the practical problem of reconciling the supply of scientific information with users' demands so that scientists produce information that decision makers need and use in policy decisions.
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Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
TL;DR: The authors showed how a robust civil society helped scuttle the twentieth century's most critical democratic experiment, Weimar Germany, and pointed out that under certain circumstances associationism and the prospects for democratic stability can actually be inversely related.
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Paradoxes of Participation: Questioning Participatory Approaches to Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that despite significant claims to the contrary there is little evidence of the long-term eAectiveness of participation in materially improving the conditions of the most vulnerable people or as a strategy for social change.
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Psychosocial and material pathways in the relation between income and health: a response to Lynch et al
TL;DR: Observations support the argument that there are psychosocial pathways associated with relative disadvantage which act in addition to the direct effects of absolute material standards in rich countries.
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The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth
TL;DR: This article showed that countries dependent on point source natural resources (those extracted from a narrow geographic or economic base, such as oil and minerals) and plantations are predisposed to heightened economic and social divisions and weakened institutional capacity.