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UNINA9910711656203321 |
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Grover Nathan Clifford <1868-1956, > |
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Surface water supply of the United States, 1936 . Part 5 Hudson Bay and upper Mississippi River basins / / by Nathan C. Grover [and seven others] |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1938 |
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Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office |
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1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) |
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Water-supply paper ; ; 805 |
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Water-supply - Mississippi River Watershed |
Water quality - Mississippi River Watershed |
Water quality - Hudson Bay |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"Prepared in cooperation with the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Wisconsin." |
Includes tables. |
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UNINA9910172243503321 |
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Autore |
Weyland Kurt Gerhard |
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Bounded rationality and policy diffusion : social sector reform in Latin America / / Kurt Weyland |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
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1-282-08676-6 |
9786612086762 |
1-4008-2806-6 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Decision making - Latin America |
Policy sciences |
Latin America Social policy Case studies |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-281) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Policy Diffusion -- Chapter 2. Toward a New Theory of Policy Diffusion -- Chapter 3. External Pressures and International Norms in Pension Reform -- Chapter 4. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Pension Reform -- Chapter 5. External Pressures and International Norms in Health Reform -- Chapter 6. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Health Reform -- Chapter 7. Bounded Rationality in the Era of Globalization -- References and Interviews -- Index |
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Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980's has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully. In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accounts of policy decision-making, this book demonstrates that bounded--not full--rationality |
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drives the spread of innovations across countries. When seeking solutions to domestic problems, decision-makers often consider foreign models, sometimes promoted by development institutions like the World Bank. But, as Kurt Weyland argues, policymakers apply inferential shortcuts at the risk of distortions and biases. Through an in-depth analysis of pension and health reform in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru, Weyland demonstrates that decision-makers are captivated by neat, bold, cognitively available models. And rather than thoroughly assessing the costs and benefits of external models, they draw excessively firm conclusions from limited data and over extrapolate from spurts of success or failure. Indications of initial success can thus trigger an upsurge of policy diffusion. |
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UNINA9910557285803321 |
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Autore |
Blaschke David |
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Titolo |
Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Research & information: general |
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Materiale a stampa |
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The book is devoted to the fundamental aspects of the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of many-particle systems. The concept of Zubarev's approach, which generalizes the notion of Gibbs' ensembles, and introduces a nonequilibrium statistical operator, providing an adequate basis for dealing with strongly correlated systems that are governed by nonperturbative phenomena, such as the formation of bound states, quantum condensates and the instability of the vacuum. Besides a general introduction to the formalism, this book contains contributions devoted to the applications of Zubarev's method to the |
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solution of modern problems in different fields of physics: transport theory, hydrodynamics, high-energy physics, quark-gluon plasma and hadron production in heavy-ion collisions. The book provides valuable information for researchers and students in these fields, requiring powerful concepts to solve fundamental problems of non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly |
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