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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

formulation and implementation attests to the significance of legal norms in constituting new spaces of financial accountability …

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Government constraints and economic voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

economic reforms imposed by the EU and the IMF. However, recent theories of accountability would predict lower levels of … international structures, government constraints and democratic accountability. …

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Government Constraints and Economic Voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

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Are there any Animal Spirits behind the Scenes of the Euro area Sovereign Debt Crisis?

Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper reveals the underlying market’s preferences over the on going Euro area sovereign debt crisis. It builds on a loss function with reference to the ‘basis’, the difference between the spread over swap and Credit Default Swap (CDS) for sovereign bonds. This loss function is general...

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Evaluation logics in the third sector

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...

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Term limits and electoral accountability

Smart, Michael; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters’ ability to reward politicians with re-election, appear counterproductive. We show that despite the disciplining effect of elections, term...

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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales … represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting … pupil attainments as they have implemented performance management. Pay for performance has been one of the measures of …

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Teachers before the 'threshold'

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers … that the scheme will be operated fairly, and this, it is argued, fits with the government’s views on the benefits of labour-management …

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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector … represents a considerable change in the school management system. This paper combines the results of opinion surveys of classroom …

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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state

Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...

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