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Necessary Conditions for Improving Civic Competence: A Scientific Perspective

Lupia, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

Many attempts to increase civic competence are based on premises about communication and belief change that are directly contradicted by important insights from microeconomic theory and social psychology. At least two economic literatures are relevant to my effort to improve matters. One is the...

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Were Bush Tax Cut Supporters “Simply Ignorant?” A Second Look at Conservatives and Liberals in “Homer Gets a Tax Cut”

Lupia, Arthur; Levine, Adam S.; Menning, Jesse O.; Sin, … - EconWPA - 2005

In a recent edition of Perspectives on Politics, Larry Bartels examines the high levels of support for tax cuts signed into law by President Bush in 2001. In so doing, he characterizes the opinions of “ordinary people” as being based on “simple-minded and sometimes misguided considerations...

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Vouchers, Public School Response and the Role of Incentives: Evidence from Florida

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

years. Exploiting the institutional details of the 1999 program, I analyze the incentives built into the system and … investigate whether the threatened public schools behaved strategically to respond to incentives. There is strong evidence that … they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation …

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Old and New Theories of Fiscal Federalism, Organizational Design Problems, and Tiebout

Garzarelli, Giampaolo - EconWPA - 2005

motivations in support of federalism, namely, incentives and knowledge. Second, it succinctly discusses the incentive …

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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...

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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication...

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