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A Tale of Two Programs? Stigma and Administrative Burdens in CHIP and Medicaid
ABSTRACT One contributing factor to undersubscriptions is administrative burdens. To explore whether program stigma affects attitudes about administrative burdens, a survey (N = 2204) was fielded to assess differences in attitudes about seven policies decreasing administrative burdens and two policies increasing administrative burdens.
Simon F. Haeder
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Obama Remains Unpopular in NH 5/29/15 [PDF]
President Barack Obama’s favorability and job approval ratings continue to remain at low levels in New Hampshire. Perceptions of the administration’s handling of the economy and foreign affairs also remain low, and Granite Staters think the country ...
Survey Center, UNH
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
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States Could Save $1.7 Billion Per Year with Federal Financing of Work Sharing [PDF]
This issue brief looks at how work-sharing provisions signed into law by President Obama in February 2012 as part of the Middle Class Relief and Job Creation Act could help states reduce their unemployment rates and also save unemployment insurance (UI ...
Dean Baker, Nicole Woo
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Why Interest Groups With Divergent Goals Collaborate: Evidence From Climate Regulation
ABSTRACT Why do interest groups with contrasting interests and policy goals work together? I present a theory of collaborative policy production and show that interest groups can achieve higher policy gains through collaboration, even though their ideal policy goals may diverge significantly.
Dahyun Choi
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Police Executive Research Forum: Freeing Local Police from Immigration Enforcement [PDF]
Dealing with immigration issues is one of the most critical and frustrating challenges police and sheriffs' departments currently face. To solve this problem and take some pressure off their members, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) has ...
Karen Theroux
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Abstract What are the long‐term effects of populism on foreign policy? This aspect has not been addressed yet by the burgeoning literature on the international consequences of populism. In this contribution, we hypothesise that the two distinctive features of populist foreign policy‐making, mobilisation/politicisation and personalisation/centralisation,
Sandra Destradi, Emidio Diodato
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Democracy Promotion in the Obama Administration: An Opportunity to Match Action to Rhetoric [PDF]
This article addresses whether and to what extent the Obama administration should continue the Bush administration policies relating to democracy promotion.
Glen, Patrick J.
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Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis
ABSTRACT This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's ...
L. Kaifa Roland
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Presidential Messages on Legislation and the Congressional Targets of Lobbying
ABSTRACT Despite strong reasons to expect presidents' announced stances on legislation to influence how organized interests lobby Congress, this effect remains underexplored. I advance a theory that Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs), sent by presidents to Congress to convey their positions on legislation, may also send signals to interest ...
Huchen Liu
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