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Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption : American States and Constitutional Change
Wallis, John Joseph - 2004
During the 1840s, twelve American states adopted new constitutions. Eleven of the twelve states adopted new procedures for issuing government debt and for chartering corporations through general incorporation acts. These institutional innovations were American inventions, and today hard budget...
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Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
Grossman, Gene M. - 2006
We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked allocations to designated public projects. Each project provides random benefits to one of many interest groups. The...
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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
Iaryczower, Matias - 2005
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over … decisions in Argentina, and find results consistent with the predictions of the theory …
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Constitution or Conflict?
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2002
A self-enforcing constitution creates a political process that provides an alternative to civil conflict for resolving disputes among the constituent groups of the polity. This paper is concerned with discovering the conditions under which it is possible to design such a self-enforcing...
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Constitutions, Politics and Economics : A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effect of Constitutions"
Acemoglu, Daron - 2005
In this essay I review the new book by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and...
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More Guns, More Unintended Consequences : The Effects of Right-to-Carry on Criminal Behavior and Policing in US Cities
Donohue, John J.; Cai, Samuel V.; Bondy, Matthew V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze a sample of 47 major US cities to illuminate the mechanisms that lead Right-to-Carry concealed handgun laws to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm...
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Did Violence Against Asian-Americans Rise in 2020? : Evidence from a Novel Approach to Measuring Potentially Racially-Motivated Attacks
Knorre, Aleksei; Tiem, Britte van; Chalfin, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Did anti-Asian violence rise after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Efforts to answer this question are compromised by the inherent difficulty of measuring racially-motivated crimes as well as concerns that reporting of racially-motivated hate crimes may have changed due to their increased...
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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
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The Effect of Pre-Arraignment Legal Representation on Criminal Case Outcomes
Lacoe, Johanna; Fischer, Brett; Raphael, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Low-income individuals arrested on criminal charges face disproportionately high rates of pretrial detention and conviction. We study a novel approach to addressing this inequity: providing low-income individuals with access to legal counsel immediately following their arrest. Focusing on a...
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Winning Isn't Everything : Corruption in Sumo Wrestling
Duggan, Mark - 2000
Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …
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