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ELECTORAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE COST OF UNPOPULARITY [PDF]
, 2017 When considering electoral campaigns, candidates receiving contributions from relatively unpopular industries should be regarded less favorably by voters that have information on the sources of funding. To offset this unpopularity effect, politicians may
Bassetti, Thomas, Pavesi, Filippo
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Modelling loans and deposits during electoral years i n Romania [PDF]
Computational Methods in Social Sciences, 2015 This paper analyzes the effect of electoral years on loans and deposits for population in Romania. Using monthly data regarding the total loans and deposits, we identify the significance of the electoral timing on population´s behavior regarding ...
Nicolae - Marius JULA
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Economic perceptions and voting behavior in US presidential elections
Research & Politics, 2020 The economic voting literature disagrees over the exogeneity of economic perceptions on individual electoral behavior. One side argues that economic perceptions are driven by partisan dispositions, which then calls into question the substantive ...
Colin Lewis-Beck, Nicholas F. Martini
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Corruption and Political Competition [PDF]
There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest groups ...
Erkan Yalcin, Richard Damania
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Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic [PDF]
, 2017 Bureaucratic behavior in developing countries remains poorly understood. Why do some public servants – yet not others – work hard to deliver public services, misuse state resources, and/or participate in electoral mobilization?
Ashraf N. +15 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Sociologie Românească, 2011 The paper analyzes the dynamics of electoral participation and its predictors in Romania, using both official data on turnout and post-electoral surveys’ data.
Marius I. Tătar
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Electoral behavior of US counties: a panel data approach [PDF]
This note proposes an econometric framework for studying electoral returns using aggregate voting and socioeconomic panel data. Along with usual covariates, the model includes electoral unit effects, electoral subunit effects and time effects, and ...
Stanislav Anatolyev
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