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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections [PDF]
, 2003 The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption.
Brandt, Loren, Turner, Matthew
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian +2 more
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The features of the first impression effect in political perception
Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2017 The research is aimed at studying the features of the first impression effect in political perception. The research consists of two experiments. The first experiment is devoted to the study of the influence of evaluating the facial attractiveness of a ...
Karina K. Bakuleva +3 more
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آداب الكوفة, 2014 Elections geography is one of the contemporary applied fields of political geography, which is concerned with studying the spatial (geographical) variation of electoral voting, its patterns and causes, and interpreting and analyzing it, i.e.
مجيد شهاب, حيدر رزوق
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Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953–1994 [PDF]
This paper analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure expenditures by the Italian government to the country’s 92 provinces between 1953 and 1994.
Golden, Miriam, Picci, Lucio
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Signaling Character in Electoral Competition [PDF]
, 2006 We study a one-dimensional Hotelling-Downs model of electoral competition with the following innovation: a fraction of candidates have “character” and are exogenously committed to a campaign platform; this is unobservable to voters.
Kartik, Navin, McAfee, R. Preston
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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
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Comment on Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor (2008): “Are voters sensitive to terrorism? Direct evidence from the Israeli electorate” [PDF]
In “Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate,“ Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor analyze the causal effects of terrorist attacks on the political preferences of the Israeli electorate.
Hlavac, Marek
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Strategic Debt in Flemish municipalities [PDF]
, 2009 This paper discusses the literature on strategic use of debt models and empirically tests the seminal models of Persson & Svensson (1989) and Alesina & Tabellini (1990) on a dataset of Flemish municipalities.
Goeminne, Stijn, Smolders, Carine
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Attainment grouping is an important policy issue and is increasingly practiced in UK primary schools, with researchers presenting contrasting stances on the impact to pupils' attainment and academic self‐concept. This original research statistically analyses the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) data (N = 3510) and explores: (i) whether dyslexic ...
Esther Alice Outram
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