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Sep 26, 2018
Zagare, Frank. 2018. "The Deterrence Project". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6AJE0NP. QDR Main Collection. V1
The study of interstate conflict, in general, and crises in particular, has a long and distinguished history at the University at Buffalo, not only in the department of political science, but in the departments of psychology, history, philosophy, and anthropology as well. In 1967 the University founded the Center for International Conflict Studies....
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May 22, 2018
Clarke, Killian B. 2018. "Data for: When do the dispossessed protest? Informal leadership and mobilization in Syrian refugee camps". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6CN723S. QDR Main Collection. V1
Project Summary Refugees are often considered to be among the world’s most powerless groups; they face significant structural barriers to political mobilization, including often extreme poverty and exposure to repression. Yet despite these odds refugee groups do occasionally mobilize to demand better services and greater rights. This paper examines...
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May 15, 2018
Elkins, Zachary; Ginsburg, Tom; Melton, James. 2018. "Constitute: Constitutional text for scholars and drafters". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6TD9V7G. QDR Main Collection. V1
Constitute is a web application developed for the analysis of the text of written constitutions. At the heart of the application is a set of constitutional excerpts that are encoded with tags derived from a conceptual inventory used in the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP), a related dataset that records the characteristics of national consti...
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Apr 13, 2018
Hahn-Goldberg, Shoshana. 2018. "Caregiver impact on adherence to discharge instructions". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6AKTDBI. QDR Main Collection. V1
This study was a subset of a RCT using patient oriented discharge summaries (PODS) and looked at the caregiver impact on understanding and adherence to discharge instructions in a complex, acute medical population. An admission to hospital for acute illness can be difficult for patients and lead to high levels of anxiety. Patients are given a lot o...
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Mar 16, 2018
St. John, Taylor. 2018. "Data for 'The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences'". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6UMRNAC. QDR Main Collection. V1
Data Overview The archival documents in these files support and illustrate conclusions drawn in my monograph, The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2018). The monograph's central research question is: what explains the rise of investor–state arbitration? These documents primaril...
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Mar 1, 2018
Dunning, Thad; Camp, Edwin. 2015. "Brokers, voters, and clientelism: The puzzle of distributive politics". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6Z60KZB. QDR Main Collection. V1
Project Summary This project addresses the relationship between electoral strategies and distributive politics, in particular, between electoral strategies and clientelism. The authors distinguish clientelism from other forms of distributive politics in two ways. First, clientelist resources are targeted towards particular groups of voters, and are...
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Feb 13, 2018
Matima, Rangarirai; Murphy, Katherine; Levitt, Naomi S.; BeLue, Rhonda; Oni, Tolu. 2018. "A qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of public sector patients in Cape Town in managing the workload of demands of HIV and type 2 diabetes multimorbidity". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6CE5MRF. QDR Main Collection. V1
Current South African health policy for chronic disease management proposes integration of chronic services for better outcomes for chronic conditions; that is based on the Integrated Chronic Disease Model (ICDM) [1]. The ICDM argues that optimal clinical outcomes for people living with single or multi-morbid conditions can be achieved through prim...
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Jan 27, 2018
Bleich, Erik. 2017. "Hate speech and France's court of cassation". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6833Q5K. QDR Main Collection. V1
Project Summary This project was designed to identify the factors that influenced French Court of Cassation (the Supreme Court for criminal law) decisions in hate speech cases. We identified all 103 substantive hate speech cases reviewed by the Court of Cassation between the inception of a major anti-racism law in 1972 and the end of 2012. We then...
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Jan 27, 2018
Chukwuma, Adanna. 2017. "A qualitative study of perspectives on postnatal care referrals by Traditional Birth Attendants in Ebonyi State, Nigeria". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F67H1GGS. QDR Main Collection. V1
Project Summary: While 79 percent of Nigerian mothers who deliver in facilities receive postnatal care within 48 hours of delivery, only 16 percent of mothers who deliver outside facilities receive postnatal care within this period. Most maternal deaths can be prevented with access to timely and competent health care. Thus, the World Health Organiz...
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Jan 27, 2018
Madrid, Raúl. 2016. "The rise of ethnic politics in Latin America". Qualitative Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5064/F6MS3QNV. QDR Main Collection. V1
Project Summary: This research, which was eventually published in a 2012 book by Cambridge University Press entitled The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America, focused on the emergence of indigenous parties in Latin America. Specifically, it sought to explain why some parties based in the indigenous population succeeded while others failed. The...
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