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Showing 1 to 20 of 245 for “"political institutions"”.
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
In this paper I explore the effects of political institutions—historical tax structure, political party power, neocorporatism, and federalism—on the implementation of explicit carbon tax (ECT) policies. This represents one of the first quantitative studies of ECT adoptions. The event history …
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Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
… consists of three chapters on the interaction of political institutions and macroeconomic activity in dynamic environments. Chapter 1 studies the optimal management of taxes and debt in a framework which relaxes the standard assumption of a benevolent government. We assume instead the existence of …
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Essays on Political Institutions and Institutional Design
… that determine the performance and choice of political institutions. We start with the recognition that these two aspects of the problem are fundamentally connected given that political institutions are themselves endogenous, i.e. the way in which they perform and function depends importantly …
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Three essays on the economics of political institutions
… thesis. It points out that the organization of political institutions obeys to the circumstances in which elected officials delegate power to the bureaucracy and that this issue can be studied with the use of the paradigm of the ""New Economics of Organization."""
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Four essays on the effects of political institutions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Domestic Political Institutions in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making
… Placing the policy preferences of the primary political actors on a single, unidimensional scale oversimplifies the issue. In fact, Congress is concerned more with domestic policy, but foreign policy can bring substantial domestic repercussions. In trying to manage those domestic effects, …
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Unpacking the relationship between political institutions and conflict recurrence
What role do political institutions play in determining whether countries coming out of conflict manage to remain peaceful or revert to war? The current literature has addressed this question either from a highly aggregated perspective, by analyzing a country’s regime type, or has focused on one …
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International trade and interstate conflict: The influence of domestic political institutions
… leaves out potentially important domestic political-institutional characteristics that may produce different motivations across leaders. Drawing upon the work of early political economists, the author presents a theory integrating the effects of economically important trade and domestic …
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Three essays on local government performance and political institutions in Colombia
… and fiscal autonomy to subnational governments, political autonomy, especially competitive elections of mayors and councils, remains a major challenge, particularly in democracies of developing countries. How do political conditions affect the economic performance of devolved local governments? …
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Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies
… examining the relationship between metropolitan political institutions and local economic performance. The impetus for this focus is the significant role that political institutions have come to play in explaining the structure and long-term performance of national economies. To apply this line …
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Political institutions in rural drinking water provision : the case of Baybay, the Philippines
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Agency under Capital Mobility: Domestic Political Institutions and the Policy Autonomy/ Exchange Rate Stability Tradeoff
… of policy convergence.I show next how domestic political institutions function as determinants of a state's fiscal/monetary policy mix and exchange rate variability in the post-Bretton Woods era. Leftist-led governments and multi-party governments in proportional representation electoral systems …
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The Impact of Issues and Voting on Changing Attitudes Toward Political Institutions in The 1972 Election
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7524272.pdf: 4505526 bytes, checksum: d16c3618c34dcee9ceda1ce9e3053394 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Entering one-party dominant democracy in South Africa : political institutions, social demographies and party strategies, 1994-1999
… maintenance of a one-party dominant democratic political system in South Africa between 1994 and 1999. Against conventional explanations that rely on historical conditions and voting patterns driven by ascriptive identities, this study offers an explanation of events that focuses on the role of …
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When will parties comply with electoral results? Political institutions and strategic choices of political parties following electoral defeat
This study examines the electoral compliance of political parties. In recent decades the number of countries holding multi-party elections has increased dramatically. Often times, however, one or more of the parties participating in the election refuse to comply with the announced results and …
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The impact of political institutions and state capacity on antiretroviral drug coverage : a cross country analysis of determinants
… 2006 and 2009 HAART data. The first asks how political institutions function to enable better HAART coverage outcomes; and the second asks whether countries with higher levels of state capacity tend to have higher levels of HAART coverage. We find weak statistical evidence that both …
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Partisan politics in the southern cone: is there anything left for the left? Political institutions, privatisation and policy outcome
… area of privatisation, and the role of domestic political institutions in either facilitating or impeding these governments from doing so, using a qualitative comparative case study methodology. It hypothesises that the configuration of political institutions is a significant factor in …
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Handcuffs or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination of the Influence that Political Institutions and Bureaucracy have on Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs
… have shown, several domestic and international political factors do account for some of this variance. However less is known of the effect that bureaucratic dominance and political institutions may have on drug policy. This research argues that bureaucrats define problems in ways that make their …
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical evidence supports my hypothesis, both judicial independence and judicial …
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