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Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about … education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a … the late 1990s, and summarize their most important findings and lessons learned. It will be shown that civic education …
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, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest … scenarios. Shifting people from intermediate to higher education levels also increases labor force participation in higher age …
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"Fed Power reveals how America's central bank undermined democratic accountability and widened economic inequality. It traces the Fed's historic rise to unparalleled power and capacity on domestic policy and its unilateral decisions during the 2008-9 financial crisis to leverage half of the...
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Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge on how political campaigns affect Americans' candidate choices. We argue that the best estimate of the effects of campaign contact and advertising on Americans' candidates choices in general elections is zero. First, a systematic...
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Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King's Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few. The authors trace the Fed's historic development from the fiery tug-of-war over monetary policy...
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