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Environmental lobbying with imperfect monitoring of environmental quality
Beard, Rodney; Mallawaarachchi, Thilak; Salerno, Gillian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we present a two stage game of political lobbying for policies designed to enhance environmental quality. Unlike previous work which has tended to assume perfect monitoring of environmental quality in lobbying games we allow for imperfect monitoring of environmental quality. We...
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Kontraktpolitik, kulturkamp og ideologi 2001-2011
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The article examines the ideological and political-economic impact of the strategies of the Danish Prime Ministers Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen as leaders of the liberal/conservative coalition governments 2001-2011.
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The Public Choice and the traditional view of political science
Vicini, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article, explore the origin of public choice compared with the traditional view of political science. The emphasize is on the methodology and the initial research program developed by Buchanan and Tullock.
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On the origins and main consequences of fiscal illusion. a short tribute to a big Economist: James Buchanan
Vicini, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
this Theory are mentioned. …
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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of September 2012
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic policy depends not only on national elections but also on coalition bargaining strategies. In coalition government, minority parties bargain on policy and form a majority coalition, and select a Prime Minister from their mids. In Holland the latter is done conventionally with Plurality,...
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Politik er (næsten) ligegyldigt for demonstrationer
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper communicates the essence of the findings of a study influencing participation in May Day demonstrations in Copenhagen 1980-2013. Political factors seem irrelevant for predicting the level of turn-out at May Day demonstrations. The most important factors are the weather conditions.
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Institution design in social dilemmas: How to design if you must?
Rockenbach, Bettina; Wolff, Irenaeus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Considerable experimental evidence has been collected on how to solve the public-good dilemma. In a 'first generation' of experiments, this was done by presenting subjects with a pre-specified game out of a huge variety of rules. A 'second generation' of experiments introduced subjects to two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108453
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Why one would accept Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with Colignatus (2001, 2007b) “Voting theory for democracy” (VTFD) then we find that … SDE does not fit voting theory for democracy. Inspection of the material upon which the SDE letter is based also shows a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622129
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Review of Howard DeLong (1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s theorem", with a reaction, also on its relevance in 2008 for the European Union
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There will be many researchers who discover voting theory afresh and who will want to understand it and its interesting … paradoxes. Arrow's theorem (1951, 1963) is the most celebrated result in social choice theory. It has been criticized a lot but … insufficient attention in the literature. This review also compares DeLong’s approach with my own book "Voting theory for democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619463
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Organismos reguladores del sistema de salud colombiano: Conformación, funcionamiento y resposabilidades
Velandia Naranjo, Durfari; Zea, Restrepo; Humberto, Jairo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Regulation is a way of intervention of the public sector, which uses its legitimate and coercive power to establish restrictions to agent’s activities who participate in the market and guarantee the efficient allocation of goods and services and social welfare. In Colombia, as an interesting...
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