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Der Wohlfahrtstaat als Grundbestandteil des modernen demokratischen Staatsgefüges

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil; Tzagkarakis, Stylianos Ioannis - 2018

Defining the welfare state is not a simpleminded task. Actually, there are numerous definitions which try to reflect at least some of the basic characteristics of the welfare state or its objectives and its functions. For some, there is primarily an institutional parameter, for others there are...

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The crisis of the social democratic movement

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - 2022

The financial collapse of 2007, the accompanying refugee crisis, the health crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic have all played their part in the current gloomy political climate. The left lacks a clear message or strategy to improve the lives of ordinary people. The emphasis on austerity and...

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Educating India’s poorest: A radical plan to attract private sector investment

Sreedharan, Ranjan - 2009

Despite its recent economic successes, India still has a vast underclass where children either do not go to school or, if they did, they are forced to drop out early. This paper outlines a new model to attract ‘for profit’ private sector investment into the education of India’s poorest and...

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Educating India’s poorest: A radical plan to attract private sector investment

Sreedharan, Ranjan - 2009

Despite its recent economic successes, India continues to have a vast underclass where children do not go to school or are forced to drop out early. In this paper, I describe a new plan to attract “for profit” private sector investment into the education of our poorest and most vulnerable...

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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …

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Intergenerational complementarities in education, endogenous public policy, and the relation between growth and volatility

Palivos, Theodore; Varvarigos, Dimitrios - 2011

We construct an overlapping generations model in which parents vote on the tax rate that determines publicly provided education and offspring choose their effort in learning activities. The technology governing the accumulation of human capital allows these decisions to be strategic complements....

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Modern Democracy-Welfare State and Public Goods. A current consequence for Greece.

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - 2019

People expect the state to create jobs and provide them with a social security net. Whatever its defects, whatever the virtues of the private sector, no structure other than the state can today provide citizens with the basic public goods. Under the present right-wing government of Nea...

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Legislative turnover, fiscal policy, and economic growth: evidence from U.S. state legislatures

Uppal, Yogesh; Glazer, Amihai - 2011

An examination of how increased turnover among legislators in the fifty U.S. states affects fiscal policy and economic growth finds that it makes legislators short-sighted. Turnover increases the size of government by increasing the shares of both total spending and taxes in income. In...

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The end of hypocrisy and the questioning of democracy

MAVROZACHARAKIS, EMMANOUIL - 2022

The financial crisis of 2007 clearly demonstrated the declining economic and political hegemony of the European social model. Austerity measures, rationalization, and cuts in all areas of society and the state were encouraged by the EU directorates. These measures have weakened social cohesion...

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Financing Higher Education Reforms in the UK: An Institutional Analysis

Todeva, Emanuela - 1999

After the Second World War, with the evolution of the welfare state, the higher education became one of the beneficiary social spheres that attracted additional resources. The expansion of mass higher education was the main feature of the entire post-war period. It is mostly during the 80’s...

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