The creation and utilization of space both shapes and is shaped by gendered social relations. In this project, we examine the architecture of domestic spaces on Árainn Mhór, Co. Donegal and Beaver Island, Michigan to understand how houses were constructed, transformed, and used. We are specifically interested in how architectural traditions from Árainn Mhór may have been replicated in the house...

Positive effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes have been found in several comparative, multiparty contexts (e.g. Britain, France, Japan, and Australia) but very few of these systems use proportional representation (PR). The handful of studies that have examined spending effects in multi-party elections (e.g. Brazil, Flanders) have found that incumbent spending is no less effective ...

Electronic mentoring (e-mentoring) programs are providing unprecedented opportunities for establishing mentoring relationships. E-mentoring is the merger of mentoring with electronic communications and links mentors with protégés independent of geography or scheduling constraints. Unique qualities of electronic communications, such as the attenuation of status differences and the ease of though...

One approach to representing knowledge or belief of agents, which has been explored independently by economists (BSge and Eisele; Mertens and Zamir; Brandenburger and Dekel; Tan and Werlang) and by computer scientists (Fagin, Halpern, and Vardi) involves an infinite hierarchy of beliefs. Such a hierarchy consists of an agent's beliefs about the state of the world, his beliefs about other agents...

We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic accountability and theories of government responsiveness. Studies that concern democratic accountability conceptualize distributive allocations as attempts by politicians to protect themselves elector...

Many philosophers have taken there to be an important relation between personal identity and several of our practical concerns (among them moral responsibility, compensation, and self-concern). I articulate four natural methodological assumptions made by those wanting to construct a theory of the relation between identity and practical concerns, and I point out powerful objections to each assum...

Inference has long been the concern of assorted disciplines that vary in focus, rationale, apparatus, terminology, and achievement. There would appear an inverse proportion between the range and the orderliness of the knowledge accumulated by the various disciplines. Literary study tends to the first extreme, logic and its heritage in modern pragmatics to the second, either imbalance precluding...