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The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim : West meets East
Jensen, Jill M. (ed.); Lichtenstein, Nelson (ed.) - International Labour Organization - 2016
--Jill M Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein -- Part I. Beyond Europe: The ILO Encounters the Pacific World -- 1. A Sea of … Difference: The ILO and the Search for Common Standards,1919-45--Leon Fink -- 2. The ILO, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region …: New Solidarities or Internationalism in the National Interest?--Marilyn Lake -- 3. Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates over …
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Sisyphus at work : on the efforts to achieve a fair, internationally recognised labour, and social order
Senghaas-Knobloch, Eva - 2010
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The Political Economy of Cordon Tolls
De Borger, Bruno; Russo, Antonio - 2015
owners of land in different locations. Assuming majority voting we show that the equilibrium toll is below the socially …
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The Political Economy of Cordon Tolls
Russo, Antonio; De Borger, Bruno - 2015
redistributes welfare not only from renters to landowners, but also within landowners. We show that the majority voting equilibrium …
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013
In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for local elections. This reform had a stronger effect on municipalities with larger councils because implicit electoral thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting...
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Behavioral public choice: A survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional welfare economics, between the motivational assumptions of market participants and policymakers: Those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and...
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Monetary Policy Committees: meetings and outcomes
Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - 2009
. In this paper we show analytically how different arrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members …
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Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy
Matsen, Egil; Thøgersen, Øystein - 2007
We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …
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Taxing Expats. A Study in Instrumental versus Expressive Voting
Blankart, Charles B.; Margraf, Simon - 2010
A fundamental question in public choice is: How do people vote? According to the preferred outcome (instrumentally) or according to principles (expressively)? The theoretical discussion eventually led to the hypothesis that voters vote non-strategically according to their preferences, as the...
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