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  • The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation

    A Goal Framing Theory of Gossip

    by Rafael Wittek, Francesca Giardini ...
    Series series Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science
    Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being virtually costless, gossiping is highly effective in monitoring and sanctioning norm violators. Rational individuals cooperate in order to avoid negative reputations. But this narrative is incomplete and often leads to wrong predictions. Goal ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

    Edited by Francesca Giardini, Rafael Wittek ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.. Academic studies have found that gossip and reputation have the power to enforce social norms, facilitate cooperation, and act as a means of social control. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

    Edited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, Victor Nee ...
    The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology.Taking on issues ranging from ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security

    A Framework for Evidence-Based Programming

    Edited by Liesbet Heyse, Andrej Zwitter, Rafael Wittek, Joost Herman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
    This book presents a new framework of analysis to assess natural and man-made disasters and humanitarian crises, and the feasibility of interventions in these complex emergencies.The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in such crises - such as in Haiti, Iraq and Sudan - and this volume aims to pioneer a theory-based, interdisciplinary framework that can assist students and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia

    Edited by Ronald L. Holzhacker, Rafael Wittek, Johan Woltjer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to begin to explore the connections between governance and sustainable society in a wide variety of policy fields in Indonesia, and how ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Statistics for the Health Sciences

    A Non-Mathematical Introduction

    by Christine Dancey, John Reidy, Richard Rowe ...
    Statistics for the Health Sciences is a highly readable and accessible textbook on understanding statistics for the health sciences, both conceptually and via the SPSS programme. The authors give clear explanations of the concepts underlying statistical analyses and descriptions of how these analyses are applied in health science research without complex maths formulae.The textbook takes students ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • Blueprint for Revolution

    How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

    by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller ...
    An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control• ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Guidance Note

    Electricity Sector Risk Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Note
    The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks, capacity weaknesses of sector entities, and inefficient systems. Governance risk vulnerabilities ... Read more

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  • The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the Us Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business

    by Michael J. Daugherty ...
    "The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public.Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers and details an extraordinary government surveillance program that compromised national security and invaded ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Varieties of Governance

    Dynamics, Strategies, Capacities

    Edited by G. Capano, M. Howlett, M. Ramesh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited collection examines various facets of governance - the organization and steering of political processes within society - for a better understanding of the complexities of contemporary policy making. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Writing Up Qualitative Research

    by Harry F. Wolcott ...
    Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines on how and where to use theory.This text is ideal as a supplementary text in any upper-level undergraduate ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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