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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?

Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171

In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …

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State capitalism and the rent-seeking conjecture

Aligica, Paul; Tarko, Vlad - In: Constitutional Political Economy 23 (2012) 4, pp. 357-379

The notion that state capitalism (an economic system “in which the state functions as the leading economic actor and uses markets primarily for political gain”) is a new form of capitalism emerging in the global arena has been recently advanced by several authors. This paper explores the...

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Interest-group size and legislative lobbying

Schneider, Maik T. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 29-41

We develop a model of legislative decision making in which lobbying and public policy are jointly determined. We examine how policy outcomes depend on the sizes of the interest groups. While a larger size typically involves favorable effects on policy, we also identify threshold levels of...

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Value and Crisis Theory in the 'Great Recession'

Desai, Radhika; Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This is a prepublication version of an article which appeared in the World Review of Political Economy. Please cite as Desai, R. and A. Freeman. 2001. ‘Value and Crisis Theory in the “Great Recession”’. World Review of Political Economy. Vol 2 No. 1, Spring 2011. Pp 35-47. This article...

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The political economy of constitutional restraints

Xefteris, Dimitrios - In: Constitutional Political Economy 22 (2011) 3, pp. 221-237

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Veto players and foreign aid provision

Wang, Yu; Jin, Shuai - In: Constitutional Political Economy 24 (2013) 1, pp. 43-56

This study investigates how the political institutions of developed economies influence their foreign assistance. Specifically, we argue that the number of effective veto players has a negative effect on the volume of aid provision. To provide foreign assistance, the incumbent government in a...

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The political economy of civil society

Pabst, Adrian; Scazzieri, Roberto - In: Constitutional Political Economy 23 (2012) 4, pp. 337-356

The dichotomy between intended and unintended outcomes of individual and collective action is central to political economy. It concerns the relationship of markets and states and their link to the constitution of society. As such, this dichotomy points to the patterns of connectivity that...

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Political Economy of Electricity Subsidy: Evidence from Punjab

Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The electricity subsidy distribution pattern needs to be scrutinised to assess whether the policy benefits small producers, a normative argument often made while granting any input subsidy. In Punjab, this policy is found to ignore equity considerations while granting non-discriminatory...

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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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Single vote multiple seats elections. Didactics of district versus proportional representation, using the examples of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

No new issues are discussed but we try to improve on the didactics of some well-known elementary features of multiple seats elections that rely on a single vote such as common elections for Parliament or the U.S. Congress. The didactics concentrate on proportionality versus districts. Since some...

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