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The Nexus Between the Democratic Transition and the Structural Transformation

Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020
There are several theoretical and empirical papers on the structural transformation but there is not a study relating structural transformation with the political regime switch in the country.
Deniz Güvercin, Adem Gök
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The Electoral Success of the Left in Latin America: Is There Any Room for Spatial Models of Voting?

Latin American Research Review, 2020
Why have moderate electorates elected and reelected leftist governments in Latin America over the last twenty years? Scholars who rely on the classic Downsian logic of the median voter theorem have observed a process of ideological moderation among the ...
Juan A. Moraes, Diego Luján
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Are more resources always the answer? A supply and demand analysis for public health services in Brazilian municipalities

EconomiA, 2017
The aim of this paper is to determine whether it is necessary to increase available resources to local governments or if better use of these funds is sufficient.
Fabiana Rocha, Janete Duarte, Plínio Portela de Oliveira, Luis Felipe Vital Nunes Pereira, Sérgio Ricardo de Brito Gadelha   +4 more
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Beyond the median voter: A model of how the ideological dimension shapes party polarization. [PDF]

Physical Review E
Defying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S ...
Roberto Venegeroles
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political Opinion and the Trends in Romanian Government Expenditures

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2016
A critical question for citizen deliberation is whether the country expends the right amount of public funds, allocated in the right proportions across the various substantive tasks of the government.
Cosmin Gabriel MARIAN, Ronald F. King
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On strategy-proofness and single-peakedness: median-voting over intervals

International Journal of Game Theory, 2020
We study correspondences that choose an interval of alternatives when agents have single-peaked preferences over locations and ordinally extend their preferences over intervals. We extend the main results of Moulin (Public Choice 35:437–455, 1980) to our
B. Klaus, Panos Protopapas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: An Antimedian Voter Theorem

American Journal of Political Science, 2013
We study a citizen‐candidate‐entry model with private information about ideal points. We fully characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of the entry game and show that only relatively “extreme” citizen types enter the electoral competition as candidates, whereas more “moderate” types never enter.
Grosser, Jens, Palfrey, Thomas R.
openaire   +3 more sources

Whose Sustainability Counts? Board Governance, ESG Ratings, and Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence on the ESG–SDG Wedge

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors increasingly rely on ESG ratings to evaluate financially material sustainability risks, while governments promote corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because these frameworks differ substantially in capital market salience and monitoring intensity, board oversight may not ...
Mohamed Hegazy, Diego Prior, Mahmoud Zarea   +2 more
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Motive and Opportunity: Order Choice in a Limit Order Book With Dispersed Information

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test predictions of market microstructure theory relating to the determinants of order choice in a limit order book where information is dispersed among traders. Using an experimental limit order book, with a large state space, we find that informed traders exhibit patience, compatible with the ‘waiting game’ behaviour described in Foster ...
James Steeley, Charles Schnitzlein, Patricia Chelley‐Steeley   +2 more
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MOCART 2.0 score of 60 or greater measured at 1 year post‐operatively predicts favourable clinical outcomes after surgical repair of tibiofemoral cartilage lesions

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose (1) To evaluate the relationship between the Magnetic Resonance Observation of Cartilage Repair Tissue (MOCART) 2.0 score and post‐operative clinical outcomes following surgical repair of cartilage lesions in the tibiofemoral joint, and (2) to determine threshold values of the 1‐year MOCART 2.0 score associated with favourable patient ...
Hyun‐Soo Moon, Sungjun Kim, Chong‐Hyuk Choi, Min Jung, Kwangho Chung, Se‐Han Jung, Jin‐Gyu Kim, Min‐Cheol Park, Sung‐Hwan Kim   +8 more
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