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Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying [PDF]
Despite a large literature on lobbying and information transmission by interest groups, no prior study has measured returns to lobbying. In this paper, we statistically estimate the returns to lobbying by universities for educational earmarks (which now ...
Brian S. Silverman +1 more
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
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On the Welfare Consequences of Political Activity [PDF]
When economic actors are also allowed to become politically active, perhaps to influence a government price policy, they face decision problems with essentially simultaneous political and economic features.
Coggins, Jay S.
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy [PDF]
In popular discussion much has been made recently of the susceptibility of government policies to lobbying by foreigners. The general presumption has also been that such interactions have a deleterious effect on the home economy.
Kishore Gawande +2 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
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The Politics of Growth: Can Lobbying Raise Growth and Welfare? [PDF]
This paper aims at analyzing the eects of lobbying over economic growth and primarily welfare. We model explicitly the interaction be- tween policy-makers and rms in a setup where the latter undertakes political contributions to the former in exchange ...
Julio, Paulo
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Exploring Differences Between Similarly Structured State Higher Education Governing Agencies
New Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research examining state higher education governing agencies often focuses on their centralization of authority and structure as key differentiating factors (e.g., consolidated governing agencies vs. coordinating boards vs. planning/regulatory agencies).
Paul G. Rubin, Lucas N. English
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Price-Capping regulation as a protectionist strategy in developing countries [PDF]
In developing countries undergoing liberalising reforms, there are typically local incumbents facing the loss of protection. Strategic lobbying by such firms for a price-capping regulatory regime can deter entry.
Arijit Mukherjee, Lawrence, Peter
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National and Subnational Models of Care That Support Primary Health Care: A Mixed‐Methods Study
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2020, the World Health Assembly called on countries to reorient their models of care (MOCs) toward primary health care (PHC). This study's objectives were to (a) describe common use of the concept of MOC; and (b) identify implemented MOCs and their components that support PHC at national and subnational levels. A scoping review charted data
Mary Louisa Plummer +5 more
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