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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Yardstick Competition and Political Agency Problems [PDF]
This paper analyzes the role of yardstick competition for improving political decisions. We examine how performance comparisons across jurisdictions affect the agency problem resulting from uncertainty about politicians (adverse selection) and their ...
Paul Belleflamme, Jean Hindriks
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Political Competition and the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2012 What factors determine the diffusion of social policies? This article exam - ines the launching of conditional cash transfer programs by Brazilian munici - palities to explore this problem.
Denilson Bandeira Coêlho
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“Resource Curse” and System Problems of Political Management in Russia
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015 In the article the analysis of problems in the field of political management in modern Russia is carried out. Initially, the author considers the possibility of explaining the nature of these problems through the theory of the “Resource curse”, but it ...
Vetrenko Inna Aleksandrovna
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On the political nature of competition law : interview with Oles Andriychuk [PDF]
, 2020 One of Oles’s latest research is questioning the political nature of competition law – a topic at the same time challenging yet a little provocative in this period of competition law turbulence.
Andriychuk, Oles, Garnier, Maya
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition [PDF]
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings.
Rincke, Johannes +2 more
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Electoral competition and gender differences in political careers
, 2016 This paper analyzes the role of competition between political parties for the promotion and turnover of social minorities in party organizations. We collect extensive and reliable panel data for the career trajectories of all Swedish politicians in 290 ...
Folke, Olle,, Rickne, Johanna,
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AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
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Choosing memories? Russian political parties as actors of historical policy
Studia Humanitatis, 2017 The article takes an attempt to analyse the transformation of relations between the state power and political parties in Russia within the framework of implementation the politics of memory.
Anikin Daniil Alexandrovich +1 more
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