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Governance Structures, Political Change and Executive Turnover in State‐Owned Enterprises: Evidence From Chile

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in net survival from cervical cancer in a Brazilian state with medium Human Development Index. [PDF]

Sci Rep
da Silva BEB, Di Carlo V, Minicozzi P, Ssenyonga N, Khan Baloch F, Matz M, Coleman MP, Allemani C, Lima CA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

BUDGET DEFICITS AND REELECTION PROSPECTS: VOTERS AS FISCAL CONSERVATIVES IN A NEW DEMOCRACY [PDF]

George Avelino, José A. Tavares, Paulo Roberto Arvate   +2 more
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Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad, Lauro Emilio Gonzalez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overall survival and cause-specific mortality in a hospital-based cohort of retinoblastoma patients in São Paulo, Brazil. [PDF]

Int J Cancer
Ribeiro KB, Veiga LHS, Carvalho Filho NP, Morton LM, Kleinerman RA, Antoneli CBG.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Political Control and Bureaucratic Protection: Public Appointments for the Formation of Programmatic Groups and Representative Bureaucracy

Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes, Míriam Aparecida Mesquita Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal policy and economic activity: new causal evidence

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Utilizing a quasi‐natural experiment design, we identify an exogenous cut in local taxes accompanied by an equivalent reduction in local government spending, and we estimate the impact of these exogenous changes on income. We exploit a unique regional dataset that combines local income data with local voting outcomes on current expense tax ...
David M. Brasington, Marios Zachariadis
wiley   +1 more source

Aid to Fight AIDS: An Empirical Analysis of HIV‐Specific Development Aid Effectiveness

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an excludable instrument for HIV‐specific aid, we investigate its effectiveness on HIV outcomes viz., prevalence and death rates. We theorize that HIV‐specific aid fills the funding gap that prevents governments from committing adequate resources to effectively address the epidemic.
Derek Nolan, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the relationship between news source sharing and political beliefs. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Del Pozo SM, Pinto S, Serafino M, Moss F, Cicchini T, Makse HA, Balenzuela P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Hassan F. Gholipour   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source