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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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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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The crisis and the raison d’être and prospect for the UK office for budget responsibility versus an economic supreme Court
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Each democratic nation with the Montesquieu Trias Politica separation of powers of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches of government is advised to create an Economic Supreme Court as a fourth branch. The new UK Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) falls short of that and will...
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112692