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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"public choice"”.
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Essays on Public Choice
… offers for an elected official, who provides a public service for the citizens. Potential candidates differ in their competence and opportunity cost. They observe the wage, decide whether to enter as candidates, and if they do, how hard to campaign for winning the election. A higher wage makes …
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Intrastate telephone regulation: a public choice approach
… behavior have been offered in the past. The public interest theory offers the hypothesis that regulators are able to discern the public interest and attempt to pursue courses of action that are in the public interest. The theory does not show how the regulators are able to discriminate …
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The National Dividend Plan: a public choice analysis
Largely as an outgrowth of the promotional efforts of a single man--an industrialist and publisher, John H. Perry, Jr.--a proposal called the National Dividend Plan has received considerable attention. The Plan involves a proposed constitutional amendment which would prohibit the corporate income …
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Solutions of Hope: Study of Public Choice Alternative Education
… and settings. It considers that schools foster public engagement, not simply public relations, in order to bring the communities they serve into conversation, which calls for listening, responding, and educating. Findings indicate that concerns about poor performance on standardized tests, …
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A public choice analysis of developing constitutional review in contemporary China
… China. This dissertation uses the methodology of public choice theory to examine the feasibility of developing constitutional review in modern China.
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A public choice analysis of millage issue elections for financing public schools
In the relatively young sub-discipline of Public Choice, there are a number of theoretical models predicting the type of equilibrium that would be expected in the production of goods and services in the public sector. These models arrive at a number of different conclusions; but one major class of …
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The emergence, growth, and redirection of social security: an interpretive history from a public choice perspective
… this study is to analyze and interpret, from a public choice perspective, the emergence, redirection, and growth of Social Security. To date, there has been no attempt to explain the evolution of this program within an integrated framework of non-market institutional change which incorporates …
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The Federal food stamp and related in-kind commodity distributions: economic history and evaluation in a public choice perspective
The food stamp and commodity distribution programs both attempt to provide nutritional aid to the domestic poor. This makes them welfare programs. But they also represent efforts to make use of excess farm production. This means they are agricultural surplus disposal programs. Although both …
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Charterism and charterization within health services : a public choice analysis of the implementation of patients' charters in England and Hong Kong
… analyzing the case study, the utility of Pubic Choice Theory is demonstrated in understanding the self-interest behaviours among the actors involved in patient's charter in both locations. It is also argued that patients' charters can be effective Public Choice remedy tools to shift provider-led …
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The Financial Services Act : a case study in regulatory capture
… in this objective. Moreover, there exists, in public choice theory, an explanation for why regulation might fail in this way. The study investigates whether regulation did fail to achieve its official objectives, and if it did, what were the reasons for this failure? Does public choice provide …
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Medieneinfluß auf Energiekonsensgespräche, freiwillige Selbstverpflichtungen im Klimaschutz und internationale Klimaverhandlungen - Entwicklung einer Ökonomischen Theorie der politischen Medienwirkung
… Das Ziel ist zu zeigen, dass die These: 'der Public Choice Theorie fehlt eine Teiltheorie des politischen Medieneinflusses' nicht verworfen werden kann. Dies geschieht in fünf Schritten (Kapiteln). Die Analyse der Public Choice Literatur im ersten Kapitel ergibt, dass die dazu bestehende …
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The real rules of the budget game : minority fiscal decision making in the United States Senate
… rules as defined by those who advocate them, Public Choice scholars and conservative activists, by testing both whether they restrain spending overall and, second, whether they more often block spending benefiting concentrated special interests than other types of spending. The study concludes …
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Descriptio orbis terrarum : towards transfiguration
… thinking. It is argued here that the Public Choice theory has not provided sufficiently precise and advanced mathematical tools of understanding in its approach to Public Policy. Moreover, the Public Choice theory is often associated with neoconservatism. This association seems to be …
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A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa’s water policy (1998 – 2001)
… water management areas (WMA)? The study uses the public choice theory to assess the IWRM approach in selected developed and developing countries. The applicability of public choice concepts with reference to the differences between Western and African cultures are briefly alluded to. It also …
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Centropoly: The Structure of Educational Failures in the U.S.
… its inflexible, layered, government-controlled public education system? Here, using public choice theory, I explain how near-sighted and unrelated reforms, often based in private motives, gave us what I call the public education centropoly – a hybrid government organization consisting of a set …
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How stakeholder roles, power, and negotiation impact natural resource policy: a political economy view
… resource management decision-making process in a public choice framework. The intent was to assist decision makers and stakeholders by developing a methodology for formally incorporating stakeholders' objectives and influence into the resource management planning process and to predict the …
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Mathematics Performance in Public and Catholic Elementary Schools: Explaining the Disparity
… job of educating the nation’s children than do public schools. Public Choice theorists in particular argue that public schools are inefficient and ineffective because they are accountable to bureaucracies, while private schools are superior because they are accountable to consumers and must …
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An enquiry into the factors affecting the development of the South African tax structure (1946/47-1985/86)
… to throughout as the economic development, public choice and marxist approaches. The central conclusion to emerge from this study is that whilst each of these perspectives individually provides valuable insights, by far the most structured explanation relies on an eclectic exposition which …
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Three essays on the political economy of forensic science
… a collection of three essays which explores how public choice and public finance issues affect the provision and production of local public goods. This dissertation looks specifically at the provision of forensic science services. Chapter 2 explores the methodology in measuring how public or …
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