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The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: A Comparative Analysis of Budget Punctuations

In this paper, I identify whether shifts within budgets occur and investigate the variation of these shifts. Building on stochastic process methods, I find that budgets in all four cases exhibit mostly incremental changes punctuated by extreme shifts. In order to explain these punctuations in budget distributions, I rely on two models: partisan control of government and partisan distance of the...

The More Things Change ...: Metamorphoses and Conceptual Structure

Given that mythmakers must construct stories that ore comprehensible to their audience, it is reasonable to expect stories to be conceptually natural even when their topics deal with the supernatural. Thus, OS stories ore adapted to human conceptual structure, they should reflect characteristics of that structure. An examination of the types of magical transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses on...

Is the Internet Changing Social Life? It Seems the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Although there has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press about how the Internet is changing all facets of social life, research on the impact of the Internet is only beginning to emerge. A review of the studies reported in this issue suggests that the Internet may have had less impact on many aspects of social life than is frequently supposed. In many cases, the Internet s...