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Henan - the model: from hegemonism to fragmentism:portrait of the political culture of China's most populated province
Heberer, Thomas; Jakobi, Sabine - 2000
Henan is China's most populous province. It has long played a strategic role in Chinese history and in more recent decades has played a prominent part in the country's politics. In this paper we explore aspects of the history and political culture of Henan, particularly the collective memory or...
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Politicians' Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians may have stronger incentives to behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325215
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 1999
In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers? union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262294
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274763
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians? incentives to behave opportunistically increase with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275662
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The Preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel: Evidence and Theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2014
We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and June 2013 and find a preoccupation with one country: in 65 percent of instances in which a country is criticized in a resolution, the country is Israel, with no other country...
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … children. The state invests resources in public indoctrination infrastructures. The model displays two-way complementarities …
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Poverty in the eyes of Brazilian elites
Reis, Elisa P. - 2010
This paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty reduction. This paper questions if de Swaan's analysis applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280154
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The limits of social democracy? Tax and spend under labour, 1974 - 79
Clark, Tom - 2001
In 1974 Britain elected a Labour government pledged to expand public spending significantly. Labour followed its programme for two years, but after that began to cut both government spending and taxation, anticipating the post-1979 Conservative agenda. This paper examines the history of this...
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