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Determinants of corporate lobbying intensity in the lease standard-setting process
Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review, 2016 The highly controversial lease standard-setting project that will replace the standards currently in place, establishes a new approach that includes the recognition of all assets and liabilities associated with lease contracts on the balance sheet ...
Lucía Mellado, Laura Parte
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
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A Politico-Economic Analysis of the European Union’s R&D Policy [PDF]
This paper provides a politico-economic analysis of the European Union’s (EU) R&D policy. It develops an open-economy R&D-growth model characterized by two parameters that capture respectively the degree of technology spillover and the effectiveness of ...
Chu, Angus C.
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
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Lobbying and Growth: Explaining Differences among OECD Countries [PDF]
The paper is an attempt to observe the effects of the development of rent-seeking or lobbying groups on the growth pace of a number of countries.
Mehmet, Babacan
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien +2 more
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Fiscal Federalism and Endogenous Lobbies' Formation [PDF]
We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of profit-enhancing local public goods.
Luca Colombo +2 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Social and Cultural activities and lobbyism
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 The article discusses the construction of public relations as a cultural construction. Analyzed this form of social and cultural activities as lobbying. Presented by the understand- ing of the modern lobbying in Russia.
V. A. Saprykin
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Informational Lobbying under the Shadow of Political Pressure [PDF]
We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide verifiable policy-relevant information to a political decision-maker and to exert political pressure on her. We show that both lobbying instruments are interdependent.
Matthias Dahm, Nicolas Porteiro
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