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Marketing Democracy : The Political Economy of U.S. Aid for Democracy in Egypt and Morocco
Snider, Erin A. - 2014
What explains the limited impact of U.S. spending on democracy promotion in the Middle East? The results of a cross …-national study commissioned by the USAID to assess the effectiveness of its spending on democracy in its programs worldwide found … that such aid works; the only exception, however, were programs in the Middle East. Case studies of U.S. democracy …
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The impact of information and communication technologies on the costs of democracy
Vragov, Roumen; Kumar, Nanda - In: Electronic commerce research and applications 12 (2013) 6, pp. 440-448
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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 7 July 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497921
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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - First draft: 7 July 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498869
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Industrial Production in the United States : Some Statistics
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 18 July 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668295
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The Justice Pivot : U.S. International Criminal Law Influence from Outside the Rome Statute
Mahony, Chris - 2017
International criminal prosecutions have become more common since 1993, both domestically and at international courts and tribunals. Where the United States government is unable to control how and when international criminal law is enforced, prosecutions may confront realist U.S. self-interest....
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Precision-Guided or Blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016
This study contributes to the literature that analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country's human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights infringements or improvements in reaction to economic shocks caused by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557921
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Towards Effective Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance : H1N1 in the United States 1976 and Mexico 2009
Ear, Sophal - 2012
The comparison of Mexico’s 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak with the U.S. H1N1 outbreak of 1976 provides notable observations — based on the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s response — that can be used as a starting point of discussion for the design of effective Emerging Infectious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174132
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The Costs of Freedom : New Institutional Comparison of China's and the U.S.'s Responses to the Financial Collapse
Davis, Kent - 2013
Starting with the framework of New Institutional Economics, this Comment examines the institutional arrangements of Chinese and U.S. governance, and then scrutinizes their respective policy responses to the financial collapse of 2008. The latent thesis is that, notwithstanding differences in...
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