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Law, Democracy and the Quality of Government in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the interaction of three crucial …

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Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...

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Blind policy-maker: an empirical evidence from the Italian case

Tesauro, Carlo - 2015

The policy-maker is normally perceived as an institutional actor in the public sector by Italian citizens (Tesauro, 2011), while it really also includes individuals operating in private organizations which, by their nature, are strongly linked with the socio economic environment. The most...

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Lobbying on Entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - 2004

growth opportunities. Also,higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated with more ef-fective legal …

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The Political Economy of Financial Fragility

Feijen, Erik; Perotti, Enrico - 2005

While financial liberalization has in general favorable effects, reforms in countries with poor regulation is often followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even after liberalization, market investors must rely on...

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For a political sociology of water resources management

Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008

This paper uses the growing volume of scholarly work on 'water and politics' to conceptually and methodologically frame … different meanings of 'development' (Thomas, 2000); d) theory on politics and social power (Kerkvliet, 1990; Lukes, 2005); and e … water resources management plays out: a) the everyday politics of water; b) the politics of water policy in the context of …

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Political dimensions of climate change adaption: Conceptual reflections and African examples = Dimensions politiques de l'adaptation au changement climatique

Eguavoen, Irit; Schulz, Karsten; de Wit, Sara; Weisser, … - 2013

and political process, by analyzing the politics and interests of actors in climate change adaptation arenas, and by … (climate change adaptation arena, governance, politics, perception, mental models, weather discourses, risk, blame, travelling …

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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...

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The political networking challenge to business leadership in Bulgaria

Michailova, Snejina; Iankova, Elena A. - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 8 (2003) 4, pp. 397-414

This article focuses on the phenomenon of political networking. It analyzes how such a necessity of socialist life and management as personal networking is utilized under the conditions of a transition to a market economy and democracy. The newly established political networks stretch from the...

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The Theory of Interhybridity: Socio-political Dimensions and Migration

Aliu, Armando - 2013

The Western Balkans integration within the EU has started a legal process which is the rejection of former communist legal/political approaches and the transformation of former communist institutions. Indeed, the EU agenda has brought vertical/horizontal integration and Europeanization of...

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