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Thirty-year Period (thirty-year + period)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Between ideology and social representations: Four theses plus (a new) one on the relevance and the meaning of the political left and right

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 5 2009
PIERGIORGIO CORBETTA
This study analyses the relevance and the meaning given by Italians to the political labels ,left' and ,right' between 1975 and 2006. Based on responses to the open-ended question ,What do you mean by "left/right" in politics?', the study compares five alternative hypotheses on the meaning of the left-right axis and show that, despite the alleged end of ideologies, the relevance of the axis has increased over time. A core of abstract meanings persists throughout the thirty-year period considered. As the importance of abstract meanings has increased over time, reference to more concrete contents (such as ,parties' and ,leaders') has decreased. The findings thus support the hypothesis that the left-right axis has the functional characteristics of social representations. [source]

Growth and Location of Economic Activity: The Spatial Dynamics of Industries in Canada 1971,2001

GROWTH AND CHANGE, Issue 3 2006
MARIO POLÈSE
ABSTRACT A growing literature has accumulated that points to the stability of industrial location patterns. Can this be reconciled with spatial dynamics? This article starts with the premise that demonstrable regularities exist in the manner in which individual industries locate (and relocate) over space. For Canada, spatial distributions of employment are examined for seventy-one industries over a thirty-year period (1971,2001). Industry data is organized by "synthetic regions" based on urban size and distance criteria. "Typical" location patterns are identified for industry groupings. Industrial spatial concentrations are then compared over time using correlation analysis, showing a high degree of stability. Stable industrial location patterns are not, the article finds, incompatible with differential regional growth. Five spatial processes are identified, driving change. The chief driving force is the propensity of dynamic industries to start up in large metro areas, setting off a process of diffusion (for services) and crowding out (for manufacturing), offset by the centralizing impact of greater consumer mobility and falling transport costs. These changes do not, however, significantly alter the relative spatial distribution of most industries over time. [source]

Exchange rates, prices and money: A long-run perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCE & ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2001
Paul De Grauwe
Abstract In this paper we analyse the long-run proportionality and neutrality propositions between inflation and money growth and between exchange rate changes and money growth. Using a sample of 100 countries over a thirty-year period we find that the evidence in favour of these propositions is weak for the low inflation countries and very strong for the high inflation countries. We propose an explanation based on productivity shocks and transaction costs. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Writing through time: longitudinal studies of the effects of new technology on writing

BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, Issue 2 2001
James Hartley
This paper contributes to the discussion about the effects of new technology on writing by assessing whether or not people's writing styles and ways of thinking change when new technologies are introduced. The writing styles of the three authors, prolific writers in their own fields, were assessed by comparing materials written by each author over a thirty-year period. During this time there were, for each author, great changes in the ways that they used new technology to help them to write. Nonetheless, the results indicated that, although the writing styles of each author differed from each other, their individual styles were remarkably consistent over time. These results thus suggest that although the new technologies may change the ways that individual writers work, they do not alter the styles of their resulting products. [source]