Murray Research Archive
Studies: 516
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of changes in classroom and family environments on adolescents' achievement-related beliefs, motives, values, and behaviors.

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hdl:1902.1/01015
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Updated: Nov 17, 2009
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This study examined the personalities of a group of college women and their interactions with social institutions. The focus was on the relationship between the changes in values and ideas brought about ...

hdl:1902.1/00341
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Updated: Oct 20, 2009
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This dissertation contains three essays on political parties and elections in federal systems. The first essay develops a formal model for the conditions under which political parties contesting elections ...

hdl:1902.1/13703
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Updated: Oct 13, 2009
Index of African Governance - 2009 Release by Robert I. Rotberg; Rachel M. Gisselquist
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The Index of African Governance is a project to measure and assess the quality of governance across Africa's fifty-three countries. It focuses on performance in five areas: Safety and Security; the ...

hdl:1902.1/13713
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Updated: Oct 13, 2009
Index of African Governance - 2008 Release by Robert I. Rotberg; Rachel M. Gisselquist
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The Index of African Governance is a project to measure and assess the quality of governance across the forty-eight countries of sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on performance in five areas: Safety and ...

hdl:1902.1/12705
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Updated: Oct 13, 2009
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The project was launched in 1987 to investigate the human consequences of the Farm Crisis that began in the late 1970s and continued to affect rural America up to 1997, a decline more drastic than any ...

hdl:1902.1/10765
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Updated: Sep 22, 2009
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The main purposes of this longitudinal study were to describe and understand the influences of social context on the psychological determinants of behavioral choices and developmental trajectories during ...

hdl:1902.1/01066
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Updated: Jul 21, 2009
Family Transformations, 1981-1982 by Abigail J. Stewart
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This longitudinal study examined differences among families in the process of divorce and the meanings and experiences of it for individual family members. The families in the study were recruited through ...

hdl:1902.1/00715
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Updated: Jul 7, 2009
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We acknowledge the contribution of von Stein (2005) in calling attention to the very real problem of selection bias in estimating treaty effects. Nonetheless, we dispute both von Stein’s theoretical ...

hdl:1902.1/12910
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Updated: Jun 30, 2009
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The massive increase in text available in digital formats presents enormous opportunities for social scientists. Yet systematically hand coding a significant share of the available blogs, speeches, emails, web ...

hdl:1902.1/12898
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Updated: Jun 30, 2009