An Investigation of Career Tenure in the European Parliament: Electoral, Party and Individual Considerations. ACES Working Papers, 2012

What explains the length of a Member of the European Parliament’s career? Little evidence of careerism has been uncovered in the European Parliament, particularly when compared to studies of legislator tenure in the U.S. Congress. Due to the different historical contexts in which these two legislatures developed, it seems reasonable to rule out many of the explanations used to account for increasing careerism in Congress in searching for the influences on legislator tenure in the European Parliament. This paper therefore proposes three potential models of careerism in the European Parliament: an electoral systems model, a party model, and an individual model. While the data necessary to test these models has not been fully compiled, this paper outlines the major hypotheses of each model and details plans for the operationalization of all independent and control variables. These models are not intended to be mutually exclusive alternatives, but rather each explanation is expected to influence each MEP in varying degrees.

Founder, Academic, or Employee? A Nuanced Study of Career Choice Intentions

We add novel insights to the debate about why individuals choose to start their own firm by comparing entrepreneurial intentions to the intentions to work at a university as an academic and to be employed in a private firm. To model this more complex set of career choices, we examine novel multiplicative aspects of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and test our hypotheses on survey data of 15,866 students from 13 European countries. Multinomial logistic regression analyses reveal how the different TPB elements influence career preferences and demonstrate the moderating effects of perceived controllability and desirability.

Understanding driver performance variability and perception of risk: driver hazard perception research plan.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Driver perception of just-noticeable differences of automotive signal lamp intensities. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Data analysis of tractor-trailer drivers to access drivers' perception of heavy duty truck ride quality. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Research, Washington, D.C.

Perception of distortion

"Contract no. N61339-506."

A letter to Sir Robert Peel, bart., on the causes of the success of the non-productive classes /

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Flexibility through part-time employment of career workers in the public service /

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An account of missionary success in the island of Formosa: published in London in 1650 and now reprinted with copious appendices.

"Of the conversion of five thousand and nine hundred East Indians in the isle Formosa... related by M.C. Sibellius": p. [15]-46.

The story of the short ballot cities; an explanation of the success of the commission form of municipal government.

p. 17-20, advertising matter.

Story of the short ballot cities. An explanation of the success of the "Commission form" of municipal government.

p. 23, advertisments.

On the perception of small differences, with special reference to the extent, force and time of movement,

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