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Firm‐Level Political Risk and Earnings Manipulation
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using recently developed proxies for firm‐level political risk and earnings manipulation, we test the limited attention theory. Contrary to Hirshleifer and Teoh's core prediction that investor attention is associated with less managerial manipulation, we find that firm‐level political risk, serving as a proxy for investor attention, is ...
Hui L. James, Thanh Ngo, Jurica Susnjara
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The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Republicans start more firms than Democrats. In a sample of 40 million party‐identified Americans between 2005 and 2017, we find that 5.5% of Republicans and 3.7% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time‐varying—Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and ...
JOSEPH ENGELBERG +3 more
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FRAMING PEACE: AN IDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF OBAMA’S SPEECH IN CAIRO
Education Human and Development Journal, 2017 Language is not always neutrally utilized by a politician. It is framed to persuade people to think and act in line with the intention of the orator or the ideology of the group he represents.
Semino Semino, Edi Pujo Basuki
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Legal Solutions in Health Reform: Executive Authority to Reform Health: Options and Limitations [PDF]
, 2009 Examines which healthcare reforms the president can implement without congressional approval and how. Identifies options for promoting and directing agency actions on specific policy goals, as well as legal, budgetary, and legislative ...
Madhu Chugh
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Not a real meritocracy? How conspiracy beliefs reduce perceived distributive justice
Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The meritocracy principle, along with other distributive justice principles such as equality and need, is fundamental to the healthy functioning of modern societies. However, our understanding of the factors that shape citizens' perceptions of these principles remains limited.
Qi Zhao +2 more
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State of Immigration in a Multicultural Society [PDF]
, 2020 This article partially reflects the research supported by JSPS KAKENHI ...
Kitagawa Otsuru Chieko +1 more
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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Issue Attention in Public Opinion Polls: Pollsters as Agenda Responders and Agenda Setters
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other institutions and the public, leading them to focus survey questions on issues that are on congressional and media agendas, and which are public ...
Qian Zhang +2 more
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Inherently Governmental Functions and Other Work Reserved for Performance by Federal Government Employees: The Obama Administration’s Proposed Policy Letter [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] On March 31, 2010, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a proposed policy letter on inherently governmental functions and other “work reserved for performance by federal government ...
Halchin, L. Elaine +3 more
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Institutional Choice and Targeted Killing: A Comparative Perspective [PDF]
, 2020 For over a decade, the use of targeted killing has been one of the most controversial issues in counterterrorism policy and law. One longstanding debate over this tactic concerns the allocation of decision-making and oversight authority among the ...
Gil, Elad D.
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