This study provides the first comprehensive empirical evidence on the economic impacts and distributional effects of the District of Columbia First-Time Homebuyer Credit program. This program is the only federal program that provides an income tax credit for targeted lower-income households to...

Although non-state market-driven (NSMD) policies are increasingly promoted as more efficient and effective alternatives to state-based regulation, there have been few comparative studies of the two approaches, and none that focus on their relative reliability as a means of policy delivery. To...

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Unlike their luckier neighbors to the west, Ukraine and Moldova did not enjoy a convenient geographical location, a national consensus, a clear identity or the state traditions to make their transition effective after the meltdown of the Soviet empire. Their initial transformation was gradual,...

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institutionalism as an overarching theory, and the nascent literature on civil-society corruption nexus, the paper looks at...

Shape analysis has special importance in the detection of manipulated redistricting, which is called gerrymandering. In most of the US states, this process is made by non-independent actors and often causes debates about partisan manipulation. The somewhat ambiguous concept of compactness is a...

Negyven éve már, hogy Kína szakított a maoista ideológiával, ezzel együtt a szocializmus Mao-féle megvalósításával, illetve a tervutasításos gazdasággal. Sok idő telt el azóta, Kína pedig óriási változásokon ment keresztül a piacgazdaság felé haladva. A ’90-es években...

The authors of this text decided to prepare a short article, with the aim to induce further discussion and to orient ongoing and future research eff orts in Central and Eastern Europe but also worldwide. Th e article uses the method of a multi-country case study as the basis for proposing...

A tanulmány célja az államvákuum és a hibridizáció jelenségének és megvalósulásának vizsgálata Szíria esetében. Az „arab tavasz” 2011-es és 2019-es hullámát követően számos közel-keleti országban az állam nem bukott meg teljesen, de a kormányzóképessége...