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surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
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When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...
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This paper aims to shed light on the role of the ’ideology’ of political parties in shaping the evolution of the …
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-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …
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remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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the right – use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …
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reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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