Sister, you write this point down (with smiling face)." (Married woman, aged 35 years, Lakkatura, Sylhet) Within the study area, treatment expense was a key factor shaping the preference for informal and NGO CTC health service providers over government providers.
Effects of social norms on people's attitudes and behavior, addressing the key role that social factors play in shaping the preferences of individuals.
Soft power, a term first coined by the academic Joseph Nye, is the ability to harness international alliances and shape the preferences of others through a country's appeal and attraction.
Post-Treaty Politics sheds much-needed light on the role that international secretariats play in shaping the preferences of the states involved in international environmental institutions and the relationships among those states.
The models of Doepke and Zilibotti (2008) and Gradstein (2008) assume instead that parents shape the preferences of their children concerning the effort they devote to their work.
'Soft power' is defined as the ability to shape the preferences of others through appeal and attraction, as distinct from 'hard power', which arises through coercion, the use of force or giving money, says a report just out.
I have put special emphasis on the role of aspirations in shaping the preferences of the members of a family and in the role of borrowing constraints in limiting the access to education.
Regarding sources of inequality, I am studying how economic and social conditions shape the preferences of individuals for large-scale social programs designed to ameliorate the unequal distribution of resources.
In other words, Nye suggests that a nation does not have to use traditional power -- i.e. force and threat -- to make another nation do what the first wants it to do, but instead can subtly shape the preferences of the other nation by using softer means.
Data from the GenForward Survey offer some understanding of how race and gender shape the political preferences of younger voters.
