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Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which ...
Mashail Malik
wiley   +1 more source

Yardstick competition under fiscal and administrative asymmetries: Rent‐seeking and local cooperation

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a two‐period model to investigate how fiscal and bureaucratic asymmetries shape yardstick competition (YC), inter‐municipal cooperation (IMC), and rent‐seeking in local public service provision. Unlike previous approaches, we allow incumbents to invest in bureaucratic efficiency, influencing both service quality and ...
Antonio Cortese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imagery rescripting for generalized anxiety disorder: A case series

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction This is the first clinical pilot to explore the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of imagery rescripting in individuals with a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Methods Participants with GAD (N = 18) attended assessment and 10 weekly sessions of imagery rescripting with a psychologist in person or ...
L. Stavropoulos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Truncated drumlins and their implication for past sea level reconstructions

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Coastal erosion of glacigenic sediments, particularly in the form of retreating drumlin bluffs, is a key process in paraglacial landscape evolution during periods of relative sea‐level (RSL) rise. As marine transgression reworks formerly subaerial glacial terrains, drumlins act as discrete sediment sources generating characteristic erosional and ...
Riccardo Arosio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive Framework for Controlling Budgetary Slack in Governmental Agencies via Strategic Management Accounting

open access: yesبرنامه‌ریزی و بودجه, 2020
The budgeting control system is one of the most important management control systems. The relation between budget and management control mechanism underlies the concept of budgetary slack, which is expressed as a consequence of strict budgeting or lack ...
Mohammad Namazi, Gholamreza Rezaei
doaj  

Life sketch of Lorenzo Jefferies Slack

open access: yes, 1937
Typescript copy of an autobiographical sketch of Lorenzo Jefferies Slack, including details on his parents, Martin and Eliza Slack, pioneers who lived at various places in southern Utah, including Cedar City, Santa Clara, Grafton, Silver Reef, and ...
Slack, Lorenzo Jefferies, 1856-1937
core  

The effects of environmental regulations on performance of firms with heterogeneous resilience

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the impacts of environmental regulations on performance of heterogeneous firms through both theoretical modelling and empirical analysis. It further examines the role of firm resilience in moderating these impacts. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model predicting that a stricter environmental regulation increases ...
Liang Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Annotations in Visualization: Considerations from Visualization Practitioners and Educators

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Annotation is a central mechanism in visualization design that enables people to communicate key insights. Prior research has provided essential accounts of the visual forms annotations take, but less attention has been paid to the decisions behind them.
Md Dilshadur Rahman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing budgetary slack through government internal control system: insights from structural equation modelling and artificial neural network approach

open access: yesJournal of Accounting and Investment
Research aims: This study investigates the important role of Government Internal Control System (GICS) elements in reducing budgetary slack in Public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
Fara Fitriyani, Dwi Ratmono
doaj   +1 more source

Budgetary Slack: Does it Hurt Organisations?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2023
Mohd Nor Ehsan   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

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