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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Party Politics, 2019 This article analyses the conditions under which political parties pay attention to labour issues. It compares the dominant partisan perspective, which proposes that attention to issues is shaped by party competition, to an interest group perspective ...
S. Otjes, C. Green-Pedersen
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Bringing Unions Back In: Labour and Left Governments in Latin America [PDF]
, 2013 In the 2000s an unprecedented wave of left-party victories in presidential elections swept across Latin America. Although scholars have studied variation among left regimes and how these regimes differ from neoliberal-era predecessors, few have addressed
Bazler, Joseph C, Cook, Maria Lorena
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Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s [PDF]
, 1998 In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built.
Alcock, P. +39 more
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, 2016 Most studies of the ‘friends and neighbours’ effect in voting behaviour have accounted for their observed patterns using Key’s classic identification of this effect as reflecting localism and voting for the ‘home town boy’.
R. Johnston +4 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Communist International in 1920-s: British direction of activity
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2009 In this article the main attention of the author is devoted to the problem of the decisive influence of the Communist International and its tactic “the united workers front” (1921—1928) on the policy of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) towards
A. Y. Prokopov
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Crise de la représentation et crise de la gouvernance : Le modèle politique britannique en question
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 The 1970s were a key decade during which the British political model came under threat. The use of referendums weakened the myth of parliamentary sovereignty, the traditional two-party system was challenged, the political options on offer were renewed ...
Gilles Leydier
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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