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How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When elected officials gain power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect policy? The answer informs debates over how legislator capacity, term limits, and institutional positions affect legislator behavior. We distinguish two countervailing effects of increased institutional power: shifting priorities and increased ...
Devin Judge‐Lord, Eleanor Neff Powell, Justin Grimmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MedGini: Gini index based sustainable health monitoring system using dew computing

, 2022
Amiya Karmakar, Partha Sarathi Banerjee, Debashis De, Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Pritam Ghosh   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Induction of classification rules by Gini-index based rule generation [PDF]

, 2018
Han Liu, Mihaela Cocea
openalex   +1 more source

Towards a Just Coastal Transition: The Mixed Success of Livelihood Diversification and ‘Bouncing Back’ Among Seaweed Farmers in Sorsogon Province, the Philippines

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need to integrate localised settings of coastal communities within its wider marine and landscapes calls to provide contextualised assessments. Drawing upon the ambition of the Philippines to identify opportunities for enhancing coastal livelihoods, the potential of seaweed farming accruing to high productivity in many of its regions is ...
Richard V. Dumilag, Edo Andriesse
wiley   +1 more source

Do Population Density, Socio-Economic Ranking and Gini Index of Cities Influence Infection Rates from Coronavirus? Israel as a case Study

, 2020
Arbel Y, Fialkoff C, Kerner A, Kerner M.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Important Is Corporate Social Responsibility for Corporate Financial Performance?: A Machine Learning Prediction and Model Interpretability Approach

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become central to corporate strategy, yet its impact on corporate financial performance (CFP) remains debated. Existing literature, which often relies on conventional statistical methods, overlooks the complex, nonlinear interactions between CSR and CFP.
Ephraim Kwashie Thompson, Samuel Buertey, So‐Yeun Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Symmetry Index Based on Gini Mean Difference [PDF]

Eman M. Hanafy, Hend Auda, Ibrahim Ibrahim   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Exploring Tolerance Towards Corruption in the European Union Through Experienced Corruption, Perceived Corruption and Institutional Trust

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corruption is a major problem that undermines the foundations of democracy and reduces citizens' trust in institutions. However, even in the world's most advanced countries, citizens accept certain levels of corruption. This tolerance towards corruption (TC) reduces the impact of anti‐corruption actions and ends up giving a patina of normality
Begoña Alvarez‐García, Dolores Lagoa‐Varela, Susana Iglesias‐Antelo, Jorge Gallud Cano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relation Between Two Income Inequality Measures: The Gini coefficient and the Robin Hood Index

, 2022
E.J. Allen
openalex   +1 more source