Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences

Under what conditions do countries go to war? What is the in?uence of the 2008–2009economiccrisisonthevoteshareofradicalright-wingpartiesinWestern Europe? What type of people are the most likely to protest and partake in demonstrations? How has the urban squatters’ movement developed in South Africa after apartheid? There is hardly any ?eld in the social sciences that asksasmanyresearchquestionsaspoliticalscience.Questionsscholarsareinterested in can be speci?c and reduced to one event (e.g., the development of the urban squatter’smovementinSouthAfricapost-apartheid)orgeneralandsystemicsuchas the occurrence of war and peace. Whether general or speci?c, what all empirical researchquestionshaveincommonisthenecessitytouseadequateresearchmethods to answer them. For example, to effectively evaluate the in?uence of the economic downturn in 2008–2009 on the radical right-wing success in the elections preceding the crisis, we need data on the radical right-wing vote before and after the crisis, a clearly de?ned operationalization of the crisis and data on confounding factors such as immigration, crime, and corruption. Through appropriate modeling techniques (i.e., multiple regression analysis on macro-level data), we can then assess the absolute and relative in?uence of the economic crisis on the radical right-wing vote share

Area Regeneration and Tourism Development. Evidence from Three European Cities

This paper discusses a key issue in the framework of modern urban development policies: the role of cultural tourism in processes of urban transformation. The analysis focuses specifically on how the emphasis on the symbolic in the restructuring of certain areas of the city may function like a spinwheel for the regeneration of urban economies, and on the stability of this process. The paper presents the cases of three European cities -Barcelona, Manchester and Rotterdam-, all of which are believed to be templates in cultural planning, and have been successful, to different extents, as tourism destinations. In the three cities, the peculiar relationship between area renewal through cultural development projects and tourism has unravelled in different ways that are revelatory of structural, as well as contingent, differences in tourism policy organisation and contexts, and that present different challenges for the future.Urban, revitalization, development, tourism, cultural assets

Erasmus Language students in a British University – a case study

Students’ assessment of their academic experience is actively sought by Higher Education institutions, as evidenced in the National Student Survey introduced in 2005. Erasmus students, despite their growing numbers, tend to be excluded from these satisfaction surveys, even though they, too, are primary customers of a University. This study aims to present results from bespoke questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with a sample of Erasmus students studying languages in a British University. These methods allow us insight into the experience of these students and their assessment as a primary customer, with a focus on language learning and teaching, university facilities and student support. It investigates to what extent these factors influence their levels of satisfaction and what costs of adaptation if any, they encounter. Although excellent levels of satisfaction were found, some costs affect their experience. They relate to difficulties in adapting to a learning methodology based on a low number of hours and independent learning and to a guidance and support system seen as too stifling. The results portray this cohort’s British University as a well-equipped and well-meaning but ultimately overbearing institution, which may indicate that minimising costs can eliminate some sources of dissatisfaction

The UD Symposium

Publication created by members of the Class of 2019. Chapters in this short book are as followed:A houseboat on Old Mill pondDue Santi has a talent showShotgunning the TowerA Jailbreak on Groundhog DayThe Library kegger.The Great RevolutionStreaking the Cap BarA typical Thursday eveningOn Stacy\u27s MomGraduationhttps://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/class_of_2019_doc/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Ticker, February 17, 1987

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York

The Biggest Peace: The Structure of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Politics of Separation

Part I of this Note summarizes the background leading up to the signing of the Oslo Accords. Part II details the overall structure and responsibilities laid out in Oslo II, with specific emphasis on the legal. Also, Part II presents for comparison the semi-autonomy arrangement devised and implemented in the Transkei of South Africa in the early 1960s. Part II concludes by examining the extent to which both of these arrangements were successful in satisfying the parties involved and makes some more general comparisons to similar reactions in Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement. Part III attempts to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of limited autonomy to deal with the competing rhetoric of self-determination and the administration of viable political entities

January 23, 2014

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1999-09-09

The Campus Council is debating who will chair the 1999-2000 Judicial Board. The Academic Computer Services is cracking down on students who illegally download music. The AIDS Quilt project committee is returning to campus; this project is a collection of individual quilt panels made by people who currently live with or have died of AIDS. The woman who committed suicide last week near the Vietnam War Memorial suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Dr. Thalia Gouma-Peterson, museum director, is featured on page eight. Pages ten through twelve highlight the athletics updates for the past week.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/1225/thumbnail.jp

Columbia Chronicle (04/21/2003)

Student newspaper from April 21, 2003 entitled Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 36 pages and is listed as Volume 36, Number 25. Cover story: Blagojevich spares MAP Editors-in-Chief: Ryan Adair, Georgia Evdoxiadishttps://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle/1574/thumbnail.jp