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Reelection Incentives and Political Corruption: Evidence from Brazilian Audit Reports [PDF]
As part of a recent anti-corruption campaign, the Brazilian government began to audit the municipal expenditure of federally-transferred funds. Using these audit reports, we construct a unique data set of political corruption to test whether reelection ...
Ferraz, Claudio, Finan, Frederico
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Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of political connection on sanctions for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Using a sample of revealed FCPA sanctions and two alternative proxies for US firms’ political connections, we find a negative association between political connection and the severity of sanctions, an effect that ...
Kaishu Wu, Wenjia Yan
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The limits of Agrarian reform in Brazil = 巴西土地改革的局限
, 2011 Brazil is probably the only country that experienced a deep and complex process of growth and promote economic development without substantial change on the issue of land ownership.
FALEIROS, Rogério +2 more
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Norm Contestation in EU Foreign Policy: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The EU considers gender equality fundamental to its identity, with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) playing a crucial role. This article delves into the contested aspects of EU foreign policy concerning SRHR from 1997 to 2021. Through document analysis and 18 semi‐structured interviews, it discerns three phases of contestation.
Diego Badell
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Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Calvo E +3 more
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Public Investment and Re-election Prospects in Developed Countries [PDF]
A growing literature suggests that office motivated politicians manipulate fiscal policy instruments in order to seek their re-election. This paper investigates the impact of electoral manipulation of the level and composition of fiscal policy on ...
Margarita Katsimi, Vassilis Sarantides
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how the politicisation of EU trade policy – defined by heightened public salience, stakeholder polarisation and contestation – reshapes agricultural lobbying strategies, with a particular focus on the EU–Mercosur Association Agreement.
Emilio Del Pupo
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THE “ MUNICIPALITY TROUG”: A FOGO MORTO ANALYSIS, OF JOSE LINS DO REGO
Travessias, 2010 published in 1943, Fogo Morto is a novel that, according to Jose Aderaldo Castello, synthecizes the whole previous work of Jose Lins of Rego. In the book in question, the author introduced an important moment of brazilian politics history: the plot takes
Esequiel Gomes da Silva
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Financial Markets and Politics: The Confidence Game in Latin American Emerging Economies [PDF]
This article focuses on the interactions between politics and financial markets in emerging economies. More precisely, it examines how Wall Street reacts to major Latin American political events.
Martínez, Juan, Santiso, Javier
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The branchial epithelium of Potamotrygon—a member of the only strictly freshwater elasmobranch family Potamotrygonidae—was observed via immunohistochemistry, and two distinct forms of ionocytes were identified. The acid (A‐type) and base (B‐type) secreting cells with respective basolateral–apical localizations of Na+/K+‐ATPase–Na+/H+ exchanger
M. W. Rossi +3 more
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