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Regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Windenergie in Nordwestdeutschland: Ein wichtiger Aspekt von Planungs- und Governance-Prozessen
Pohl, Martha - In: Governance-Prozesse für erneuerbare Energien, (pp. 17-30). 2013
Herstellung und Betrieb von Windenergieanlagen - on- und offshore - haben sich zu einem bedeutenden Wirtschaftszweig in Nordwestdeutschland entwickelt, der absehbar die Arbeitsplatzrückgänge im Schiffbau kompensieren kann. Damit treten sowohl die Unternehmen als auch die Beschäftigten als...
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Interregionale Disparitäten und Entwicklung ländlicher Räume als regionalpolitische Herausforderung für die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten
Baum, Sabine; Weingarten, Peter - 2004
Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...
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What actually happens to EU directives in the member states?: A cross-country cross-sector view on national transposition instruments
Treutlein, Daniela - 2007
characteristics, i.e. sector lobbying potential and technicality. …
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How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009
This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and...
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Corruption and Political Competition
Damania, Richard; Yalcýn, Erkan - 2008
special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …
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Lobbying and political polarization
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2002
on the nexus between pre-election interest group lobbying and electoral competition. …
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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden
Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008
size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …
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The Impact of Lobbying on the Allocation of Political Authority
Falconieri, Sonia - 2001
This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …
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Bank Ownership and Financial Stability
Perotti, Enrico; Vorage, Marcel - 2010
We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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