Book section · January 1, 2020
Philip Converse argued that partisanship was itself a stable attribute over time, with parental socialization the key mechanism of transmission and source of stability. He implied that stability in partisanship was an important source of stability in democ ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
After a review of the basics of the calculus of voting with respect to turnout, this chapter considers two relatively new theoretical advances: the development of a fully articulated theory of expressive voting; and specification of the utility function. I ...
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Book section · January 1, 2013
The Chinese public’s prevailing admiration and respect for the United States was widely observed in the 1980s when reforms first began. However, since the early 1990s significant anti-American sentiments have started to emerge in China. Such a dramatic shi ...
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Book section · January 2012
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is an important interface between the peripheral and central nervous systems. It protects the brain against the infiltration of harmful substances and regulates the permeation of beneficial endogenous substances from the blood ...
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Book section · January 1, 2010
The U.S. Congress has changed in many ways over the last fifty years, but perhaps the most dramatic has been the changing role of the political parties. David Mayhew’s study of the Congress (published in 1974) argued that political parties were weak instit ...
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Book section · August 21, 2008
This article describes the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s initiative to close the gap between theory and methods. It also deals with the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) as currently understood as a way of thinking about causal infe ...
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