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Local Governance and Dynamic Conflict in Developing Countries (GOVERN)
Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,
"This proposal is divided into two main strands.The first strand seeks to understand the effects of local marginal institutional change in autocracies. In particular, we will examine the introduction of local democracy in rural China. Our first contribution is to collect a representative panel of villages in rural China. With this unique data we will examine three main questions: First, we will es ...
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"Spatial spikes: bridging geography and economics to study distance, agglomeration, and policy" (SPIKES)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,
"Economic geographers and geographical economists have been using different methods in order to analyse the location of economic activity. These different approaches to the same topic have, paradoxically, resulted in very similar geographical configurations: a ‘spiky’ world dominated by large metropoli, where intermediate and peripheral locations tend to matter less and less. This apparent similar ...
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Upload. Urban Politics of London Youngsters Analyzed Digitally (UPLOAD)
Start date: Sep 2, 2013, End date: Sep 1, 2015,
The main aim of the proposed study is to investigate the lived experience of cultural difference among young Londoners (between 12-18 years) of different cultural backgrounds. Internet applications such as the video sharing platform YouTube, the social-networking site Facebook and micro-blog Twitter are taken as entry points to study the juxtaposition of differences in urban, digital representatio ...
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