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How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development
Enrico Spolaore,Romain Wacziarg +1 more
TL;DR: A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of historical variables on contemporary income by explicitly taking into account the ancestral composition of current populations as mentioned in this paper.
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Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the ubiquitous nature of political disagreement in the communication network of ordinary citizens and argue that political diversity within these networks is consistent with a theory of democratic politics built on the importance of individual interdependence.
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Phronetic Planning Research: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical and methodological considerations behind a research method which the author calls "phronetic planning research" are presented. And the central task of planning research is to provide concrete examples and detailed narratives of the ways in which power and values work in planning, with what consequences to whom, and to suggest how relations of power and value could be changed to work with other consequences.
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Social Capital, Microfinance, and the Politics of Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate prevailing ideas about social capital (rooted in rational choice theory) against the grain of three alternative approaches: Marxian social capital theories ( A la Pierre Bourdieu), neo-Foucauldian governmentality studies, and my feminist ethnographic research on the social embeddedness of economic practice in a merchant community of Nepal.
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A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
TL;DR: The authors show that membership associations emerged early in U.S. history and converged toward the institutional form of the representatively governed federation, which enabled leaders and members to spread interconnected groups across an expanding nation.