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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021

and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...

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Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power

Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2021

Policy reforms are often multifaceted. In the rent-seeking literature policies are usually taken as one-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous policy proposals containing two dimensions. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one...

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Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2021

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model where migration policy is the result of the interaction between organized groups...

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Caste, Courts and Business

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction : Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Educational Attainment Across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...

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The Impact of Caste : A Missing Link in the Literature on Stunting in India

Ramachandran, Rajesh; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2021

India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The associated high prevalence of stunting has generated a stream of research explaining why chronic malnourishment in India is higher than in poorer countries of sub-Saharan Africa....

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