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The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the … election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … enhance the accountability of politicians and to increase social welfare. …
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"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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explore Maslow’s theory of human motivation as a psychological theory for promoting SDI in developing countries. In this … brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly … governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory, though well-known, is somewhat new in geospatial circles; this is where …
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the nature of our political system and the plight of central cities. Because local and state politicians are elected for …
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 10 February 1989.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3998497. In the face of strong opposition from left-wing union...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 16 November 1982.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. In response to the problem of growing unemployment, the Fraser Government calls a special premiers' conference to seek a 12 month wage freeze in both the...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 6 July 1986.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. The Sunday cartoon panel: 1. The Australian dollar falls to all-time lows, much to the discomfort of Treasurer Paul Keating. 2. In an uncomfortable beginning to...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 August 1981.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Talks between the Fraser government and the ACTU on wage moderation seem headed towards the rocks when concessions sought by the ACTU on tax, health charges...
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Energy forecasts are widely used by the U.S. government, politicians, think tanks,and utility companies. While short …
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-selection of Politicians and Corruption," I, together with my coauthor Evsen Turkay, build a citizen-candidate model, in which … politicians' salaries, entrepreneurial profits and campaigning costs, on the equilibrium outcome. …
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