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Betting On Democracy: Luck And Possibility In The Modern Political Imagination, Mindy Peden
Betting On Democracy: Luck And Possibility In The Modern Political Imagination, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
If there are political implications to methodological choices, what are they? This paper is about the political implications of one particular methodology: probability theory. More correctly, this paper is about how social scientists, especially political scientists, use probability theory in understanding the actions of human beings.
Probably Democratic, Mindy Peden
Probably Democratic, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
I explore uses for the role of chance in theorizing democracy and explores how the potentially fortune friendly use of probability theory in the social sciences has been misrepresented to highlight an imaginary predictability of political life.
Brewed In Scotland, Bottled In Ulster, Uncorked In The Usa: The Ambiguity Of Diasporic Identity, Mindy Peden, Wendy Wiedenhoft
Brewed In Scotland, Bottled In Ulster, Uncorked In The Usa: The Ambiguity Of Diasporic Identity, Mindy Peden, Wendy Wiedenhoft
Mindy Peden
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