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Managerial ability, political connections, and fraudulent financial reporting in China

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2017
Abstract The primary objective of this paper is to examine the associations among managerial ability, political connections and enforcement actions for financial reporting misrepresentation (hereafter financial reporting fraud) in China. Using a sample of listed firms in China during 2007–2012, we first find that increased managerial ability leads to
Mei-Hui Chen
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Cognitive Ability Rivals the Effect of Political Sophistication on Ideological Voting

Political Research Quarterly, 2016
This article examines the impact of cognitive ability on ideological voting. We find, using a U.S. sample and a Danish sample, that the effect of cognitive ability rivals the effect of the traditionally strongest predictor of ideological voting, political sophistication.
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A longitudinal database of Irish political speech with annotations of speaker ability

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2017
This paper presents the Irish Political Speech Database, an English-language database collected from Irish political recordings. The database is collected with automated indexing and content retrieval in mind, and thus is gathered from real-world recordings (such as television interviews and election rallies) which represent the nature and quality of ...
Ailbhe Cullen, Naomi Harte
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The Impact of American Politics on Perceptions of Women's Golfing Abilities

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009
AbstractWe examine the relationship between political environments and perceptions of women's physical abilities. Using a sample of 496 golf courses located in the United States, we find a significant relationship between state political affiliations, ratings of senators and congressional representatives on a liberal to conservative continuum, and ...
Michelle M. Arthur, Harry J. Van Buren III, Robert G. Del Campo   +2 more
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Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1997
Structural changes necessary in detracking efforts challenge not only the technical dimensions of schooling, but also the normative and political dimensions. We argue that detracking reform confronts fundamental issues of power, control, and legitimacy that are played out in ideological struggles over the meaning of knowledge, intelligence, ability ...
Jeannie Oakes, Amy Stuart Wells, Makeba Jones, Amanda Datnow   +3 more
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Does political risk affect managerial ability?

Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
Purpose This study aims to examine the relation between firm-level political risk and managerial ability. Design/methodology/approach This study uses regression analysis to explore firm-level political risk’s influence on managerial ability. Findings The findings exhibit a significant and positive relationship between firm-level political risk and ...
Lori N.K. Leonard, Li Sun
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Ability Matters: Testing the Differential Effects of Political News and Late-Night Political Comedy on Cognitive Responses and the Role of Ability in Micro-Level Opinion Formation

International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 2013
Entertainment-oriented media are a staple in today’s political media environment (Prior, 2007), ranging from fictional narratives (e.g., Iron Lady, Ides of March) to entertainment-infused news programming (e.g., Fox and Friends, Rock Center). Amidst the rapidly changing media environment, media producers are packaging political content in a variety of ...
H. L. LaMarre, W. Walther
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"LANGUAGE POLITICS AND SUSTAINABLE ABILITY OF KNOWLEDGE IN KARNATAKA"

2019
The present study investigates the origin and sustainability of Kannada language in Karnataka. Language is main brain process of all states because of the language is mode of communication. But in recent days youths are giving more important to use English rather than Kannada, which has cause to reduce their thinking capacity and analytical decision ...
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Study on Ideological and Political Learning and Employment Ability in Manufacturing Engineering

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014
In recent years, with China's rapid development of social economy, the society requires more and more on the quality of College students. College Students' employment competition is the essence of the competition ability of employment. This article through the analysis of the ideological and political education on College Students' employment ability ...
Jian Jun Xia, Fei Guo, Xue Jun Wang, Yan Fei An   +3 more
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Cognitive Ability, Principled Reasoning and Political Tolerance

2015
Individuals are not equally politically tolerant. To explain why, individual differences in emotions and threat have received much scholarly attention in recent years. However, extant research also shows that psychological dispositions, habitual cognitive styles, ideological orientation and ‘principled reasoning’ influence political tolerance judgments.
Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen, Stig, Nørgaard, Asbjørn Sonne   +1 more
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