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Emotions and Political Unrest
Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2013
This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated … by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631771
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Emotions and Political Unrest
Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper formulates a theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by … emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083543
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Comparative Politics and Public Finance
Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gérard; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper presents a model of electoral accountability to compare the public finance outcomes under a presidential-congressional and a parliamentary system. In a presidential-congressional system, contrary to a parliamentary system, there are no endogenous incentives for legislative cohesion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136516
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Political economics and normative analysis
Jennings, Colin; McLean, Iain - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2008
The approaches and opinions of economists often dominate public policy discussion. Economists have gained this privileged position partly (or perhaps mainly) because of the obvious relevance of their subject matter, but also because of the unified methodology (neo-classical economics) that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567782
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I sistemi elettorali e la politica fiscale: il caso italiano dal 1861 ai giorni nostri
Salsano, Francesco; Uberti, Teodora Erika - Centro di Ricerche in ANalisi EConomica e sviluppo … - 2008
This paper aims to the analysis of the rules electoral effects on fiscal policy, respect to the Italian case: in fact Italy, since 1861 until nowadays, modified several times its electoral system, switching from the majoritarian to the proportional system. In particular here we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612118
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine … responses to budget cuts, countries with more constraints on the executive are less likely to see unrest after austerity … measures. Growing media penetration does not strengthen the effect of cut-backs on the level of unrest. We also find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851354
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine … the executive are less likely to see unrest after austerity measures. Growing media penetration does not strengthen the … effect of cut-backs on the level of unrest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201119
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Joseph E. Stiglitz: A kormányzati szektor gazdaságtana. KJK-Kerszöv Jogi és Üzleti Kiadó Kft., Budapest, 2000, 748 oldal
Pete, Péter - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLVIII (2001) 6, pp. 540-544
A hazai közgazdasági felsőoktatás legfontosabb diszciplínákat alapozó, standard kurzusaihoz a tankönyvek kiválasztásakor gyakran felmerül az a kérdés, hogy vajon a külföldön már bevált, nemzetközi hírnévnek örvendő (a közgazdaságtan mai divatirányzatait tekintve...
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Don't Be Ashamed to Say You Didn't Get Much
Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelligra, Vittorio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011
We run a modified dictator game experiment to investigate the determinants of donation choices to philanthropic organizations. We find experimentally that the adoption of a simple form of accountability such as the disclosure of information on the ranking of aggregate contributions received by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991147
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School Management in Developing Countries
Galiani, Sebastian; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2013
We review the empirical evaluation of three school-management interventions: school decentralization, tracking and contract teachers. We provide stylized models to organize the discussion of the results. We look at the average and distributional effects of the policies and stress the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850655