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  • Ploughshares Winter 2020-2021

    de Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Nick Arvin, Gina Ochsner, Steve Almond, Sylvie Baumgartel, Jennifer Givhan, Kelli Russell Agodon, Justin Balog, Shauna Barbosa, J. Mae Barizo, Christopher Buckley, Michael Burkard, Nora Caplan-Bricker, Elaine Chou, Emily Cinquemani, Katie Condon, Jackie Craven, Caroline Crew, Evgeniya Dame, Fay Dillof, Shangyang Fang, Corey Flintoff, Jessica Goodfellow, Matthew E. Henry, David Keplinger, Ted Kooser, Laurie Lamon, Michael Lavers, Kathleen Lee, Eugenia Leigh, Ruth Madievsky, Alexandra Marshall, Gary McDowell, Paul Muldoon, Janice Northerns, Suphil  Park, Madelin Parsley, Emily Pittinos, Christina Pugh, Jeremy Radin, David Roderick, Craig van Rooyen, Noah Warren, Mason Wray, He Xiang, Jane Zwart ...
    The Winter 2020-21 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2020-21 Issue, edited ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism

    de Michael Laver ...
    Series series Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
    Building on the Cambridge Element Agent Based Models of Social Life: Fundamentals (Cambridge, 2020), we move on to the next level. We do this by building agent based models of polarization and ethnocentrism. In the process, we develop: stochastic models, which add a crucial element of uncertainty to human interaction; models of human interactions structured by social networks; and 'evolutionary' ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Agent-Based Models of Social Life

    Fundamentals

    de Michael Laver ...
    Series series Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
    Social interactions are rich, complex, and dynamic. One way to understand these is to model interactions that fascinate us. Some of the more realistic and powerful models are computer simulations. Simple, elegant and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly free software to help you design, build and run your own models of social interactions that intrigue you, and do this on the most basic ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Private Desires, Political Action

    An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice

    de Michael Laver ...
    Private Desires, Political Action is an accessible overview of one of the most important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world - rational choice theory. Michael Laver does not set out to review this entire field, but rather to discuss how we might use rational choice theory to analyze the political competition that affects almost every aspect of our lives.The broad-ranging scope ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Multiparty Government

    The Politics of Coalition in Europe

    de Michael Laver, Norman Schofield ...
    Series series Ann Arbor Paperbacks
    The politics of coalition -- the very heart of the political process in most European countries -- can be analyzed either theoretically or empirically. Multiparty Government aims to reconcile these approaches by placing the insights of contemporary theory within the real world context of coalition politics. Michael Laver and Norman Schofield do this by examining five basic themes: the identity and ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    de Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan

    Gift Giving and Diplomacy

    de Associate Professor Michael Laver ...
    Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Party Competition

    An Agent-Based Model

    de Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies

    A Computational Social Science Approach

    de Scott de Marchi, Michael Laver ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Parliamentary democracy involves a never-ending cycle of elections, government formations, and the need for governments to survive in potentially hostile environments. These conditions require members of any government to make decisions on a large number of issues, some of which sharply divide them. Officials resolve these divisions by 'logrolling'– conceding on issues they care less about, in ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Cooperation in the Multi-Ethnic Classroom (1994)

    The Impact of Cooperative Group Work on Social Relationships in Middle Schools

    de Helen Cowie, Peter Smith, Michael Boulton, Rema Laver ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1994, this book describes how cooperative group work can enhance relationships in the classroom, reduce prejudice and alleviate problems of victimisation and peer rejection. It combines quantitative experimental analysis with detailed case studies; considers the impact of the family on pupil behaviour; and concludes with practical recommendations to foster social acceptance in ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Party Policy in Modern Democracies

    de Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe.It updates and radically extends Policy and Party Competition (1992), which established itself as a key mainstream data source for all political scientists exploring the policy positions of political parties.This essential text is divided into three clear parts ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors

    Edición de Michael Laver ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book gives an up to date reference on the state of the art in this highly important methodological area, which is central both to theoretical models of party competition and to empirical accounts, whether these are case studies or comparative analyses. It looks at subjects including tracking estimates of public opinion and party policy intentions in Britain and the USA; the policy space of ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD