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Motor Voter or Motivated Voter?
(New Prospect, Inc., 1996)
The Motor Voter law was supposed to dramatically increase turnout and give marginalized groups more voice in politics. Unfortunately, getting these groups to register doesn't do any good if you don't give them reason to vote.
Usable Knowledge for Managing Responses to Global Environmental Change: Recommendations to promote collaborative assessments and information systems
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1998-09)
The recent agreement in Kyoto underscores the critical relationship between scientific understandings of global environmental change and national, international, and even local policies.For the first time, representatives ...
The Nuclear Weapons Complexes: Meeting the Conversion Challenge -- A Proposal for Expanded Action
(Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council., 1997)
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have undertaken a serious effort to convert their nuclear complexes to non-weapons work. However, it has been difficult to achieve significant progress toward ...
Managing Military Uranium and Plutonium in the United States and the Former Soviet Union
(Annual Reviews, 1997)
Notes for the Next Epidemic, Part One: Lessons from News Coverage of AIDS
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-10)
It is just this latter type of criticism of press practices that is explicitly described, and so well embodied, in this analysis of AIDS coverage prepared by Timothy Cook, Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams ...
Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-07)
Only a short time after a member of the East German Politburo (SED) had announced dramatic changes in travel regulations and after West German television had interpreted them on the evening news, East Berliners began to ...
International Trade and Income Distribution
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-06)
This paper applies the inframarginal analysis, which is a combination of marginal and total cost-benefit analysis, to investigate the relationship between division of labor, the extent of the market, productivity, and ...
Local Growth Empirics
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-07)
Using a newly constructed data panel on U.S. locality attributes, this paper sketches four sets of empirical facts on economic growth across U.S. counties. A first set of facts focuses on the time series and cross-correlation ...