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UNINA9910452156603321 |
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Maisel Louis Sandy <1945-> |
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American political parties and elections : a very short introduction / / L. Sandy Maisel |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , c2007 |
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1-281-16287-6 |
0-19-971968-3 |
1-4356-0956-5 |
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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Very short introductions ; ; 169 |
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Elections - United States |
Political parties - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) and index. |
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The context of American elections and political parties -- A brief history of American political parties -- Party organizations : what do they look like? what do they do? -- Who are Republicans? who are Democrats? who are the "others"? -- Presidential elections : nominating campaigns and general elections -- Subnational nominations and elections -- Far from the perfect democracy. |
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Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a country where only two parties have a true chance of winning, despite the fact that a large number of citizens claim allegiance to neither and think badly of both. Or perhaps it is because in the U.S. cam |
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UNINA9910792185003321 |
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Autore |
Bracken Michael B. <1942-> |
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Risk, chance, and causation [[electronic resource] ] : investigating the origins and treatment of disease / / Michael B. Bracken |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2013 |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Epidemiology |
Therapeutics |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- One. Risk, Chance, and Causation -- Two. Chance and Randomness -- Three. Risk -- Four. Randomization and Clinical Trials -- Five. More Trials and Some Tribulations -- Six. Harm -- Seven. Screening, Diagnosis, and Prognosis -- Eight. A Statistical Sojourn -- Nine. Disease Clusters -- Ten. Genetics and the Genome -- Eleven. The Study of Mankind Is Man -- Twelve. Celebrity Trumps Science -- Thirteen. Replication and Pooling -- Fourteen. Bias in Publication and Reporting -- Fifteen. Causes -- Sixteen. Ultimate Causation -- Notes -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index |
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The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But what exactly is actually meant by "increased risk"-should we worry if we are told that we are at twice the risk of developing an illness? And how do we interpret "reduced risk" to properly assess the benefits of noisily touted dietary supplements? Demonstrating the difficulty of separating the hype from the hypothesis, noted epidemiologist Michael Bracken clearly communicates how clinical epidemiology works. Using everyday terms, Bracken describes how professional scientists approach questions of disease causation and therapeutic efficacy to provide readers with the tools to help them understand whether warnings of environmental risk are truly warranted, or if claims of therapeutic |
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UNINA9910346864803321 |
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Puskeiler Marc |
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Radarbasierte Analyse der Hagelgefährdung in Deutschland |
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KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013 |
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1 online resource (IV, 202 p. p.) |
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Wissenschaftliche Berichte des Instituts für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie |
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This study shows the development of an analysis of the hail hazard in Germany in high spatial resolution, based on radar- and lightning data. |
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