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Democracy's black boxes : opening up electoral geography

Low, Murray (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Social Security, Redistribution and Public Opinion

Hills, John; Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

John Hills and Orsolya Lelkes have analysed results from the National Centrefor Social Research’s 1998 British Social Attitudes survey on public attitudes toredistribution and social security benefits and at how these relate to currentgovernment policies.There is a persistent public appetite...

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Inequality and Collective Action

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Karajvanov, … - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / Riverside …; … - 2002

In this paper we analyze the effect of inequality in the distribution of endowments of privateinputs (like land, capital) on production efficiency through its effect on the voluntary provisionof collective inputs (like irrigation, public research) that are complementary in production withthose...

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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

allocation. We find that the patternof policy-making reflects politicians' self-interest. Elected councillors benefit from … resource allocation.While electoral incentives do not eliminate politician opportunism, voters ap-pear able to use their …

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Modernisation and Son Preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas

Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...

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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia:A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

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Are one man’s rags another man’s riches?Identifying adaptive expectations using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

scaling of satisfaction.The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of … to rising incomes but less so falling incomes.The paper concludes that satisfaction with income is influenced by …

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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for...

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