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We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
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This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
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In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...
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We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …
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of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …
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studies focus their attention on tax compliance factors associated with trust and power. Therefore, this study is dedicated to … fully exploring these factors. The results show that most factors had a significant influence on trust and power. The … compliance. However, the study fails to find evidence of the relationship of power with enforced compliance, although enforced …
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effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …
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disadvantaged players actually increase inequality. We also investigate when players give up an advantageous sharing rule. Power … ; relationship-specific investment ; allocation of power ; social preferences …
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relationship between pay and firm performance since the 1930s. Our review suggests that both managerial power and competitive …
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This paper analysis the link between political strength and public sector wages using a unique matched individual-employer data set for Norwegian local governments during the period 1990-1998. The results indicate that political strength, measured in several ways, has a positive effect on wages,...
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