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Recent Nigerian experience illustrates the importance ofensuring that the institutional, financial, and operational powers of election management bodies are safeguarded [PDF]
, 2014 How should countries organise their systems of electoral administration? Recent election cycles in Nigeria illustrate the importance of ensuring that electoral management bodies are not just institutionally independent, but that steps are also taken to ...
Sani, Ibrahim
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, 2017 Electoral malpractices are commonly thought to occur in polling stations. This chapter makes the normative case for electoral management bodies (EMBs) around the world routinely using poll worker surveys.
Clark, Alistair +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022 This work aims to improve the comprehensive role of big data technology in promoting social development and reduce the continuous emergence of social problems under the background of big data application. Abstract The purpose is to improve the security of the application of big data technology and ensure the stable development of society in the context
Xuejie Zhao
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Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022 Elections today are almost universally accepted as the legitimate way of establishing governments. The Electoral management bodies are entrusted with the responsibility of conducting free, fair credible elections. For close to three decades now since the return to Multiparty rule in 1992, Kenya has been holding periodic elections that exhibit fragility
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Climate Change Laws and European Stock Markets: An Event Analysis
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the context of the climate change we assess the impact of EU's legislative initiative on European stock markets. Specifically, we focus on its impact on energy and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) sectors for equity returns and volatility for a representative basket of EU countries (participating also in Eurozone) as well as ...
Theodoros Bratis +2 more
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Financial Literacy, Financial Development and Economic Growth
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While significant progress has been made in exploring the importance of financial literacy, its impact on economic growth and financial development from a macroeconomic point of view remains thinly understood. This paper provides fresh evidence on the relationship between financial literacy, financial development and economic growth.
Spyridon Boikos +2 more
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work
Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson +2 more
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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, 2017 The evidence points to a range of enduring problems in American elections. However, most attempts to strengthen US elections involve piecemeal reforms, often worthwhile but technical in nature.
Pippa Norris
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