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Ranking policy and political economic journals
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to rank economic journals in the broader field of policy and political science. By using one composite input and one composite output the paper ranks 52 journals in a linear programming setting using data for the time period of 1996-2010. In addition for the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651406
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When Can Politicians Scare Citizens Into Supporting Bad Policies? A Theory of Incentives with Fear-Based Content
Lupia, Arthur; Menning, Jesse - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Analysts make competing claims about when and how politicians can use fear to gain support for suboptimal policies. Using a model, we clarify how common attributes of fear affect politicians’ abilities to achieve self-serving outcomes that are bad for voters. In it, a politician provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836312
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Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Explaining the Choices of Cognitively Limited Actors
Lupia, Arthur; Zharinova, Natasha; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about human reasoning. One such assumption, that political actors think in complex and similar ways when assessing strategies, is nested within widely used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. Empirical research casts doubt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836867
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Criticism, Communication and Debate in Public Environment
Ortigueira, Luis C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents models of criticism, communication and debate in public environment, focusing on the types of criticism and countercriticism manifested in political debates and public management. The paper proposes: (i) a normative model showing how rational criticism and countercriticism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543784
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530713
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533262
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When Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Benefits, Costs, and an Application to Jury Theorems
Lupia, Arthur; Levine, Adam Seth; Zharinova, Natasha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about how people think. One such assumption, that political actors use identical conjectures when assessing others’ strategies, is nested within applications of widely-used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042703
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784953
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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
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Urbanicity: dialogue between Sociology, Architecture, Economics and Geography - the Master in Metropolization,Strategic Planning and Sustainability experience
Reis, Judite Lourenço; Salvador, Regina; Cardoso, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Sustainability, with academic backgrounds raging from Sociology, to Architecture, Economics and Geography. Sociology, the present …. However, the “mark” of Urbanization in the Epistemology of Sociology was not limited to the, then emerging science …, shown the importance of Sociology in the analysis of issues related to Cities and Urban Spaces, we will try to emphasize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258587