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Democracy and reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815935
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Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems : the case of the environment
Halla, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality … problems ; environmental economics and policy ; satisfaction with democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741921
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461501
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The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens' policy preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484466
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Crisis and reorganization in urban dynamics : the Barcelona case study
Balanzó, Rafael de; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2017
We use the adaptive cycle theory to improve our understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona from 1953 to present. Most specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of opportunity these cycles for change introduced in the release (Ω) and reorganization (α)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647647
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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283145
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Social protection beyond the bottom billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393848
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Market design for trading commoditized renewable energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393862
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521090
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Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2015
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510602