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The Convergence Coefficient across Political Systems

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2013
Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties or candidates should locate themselves at the electoral mean. Recent research has found no evidence of such convergence.
Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield
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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Law of Political Economy: Transformation in the Function of Law. Edited by Poul F. Kjaer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This book develops the law of political economy as a new field of scholarly enquiry. Bringing together an exceptional group of scholars, it provides a novel conceptual framework for studying the role of law and legal instruments in political economy ...
Kjaer, Poul F.
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The Political Economy of Inclusive Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
An Application of Political Settlements to the case of ...
Khan, Mushtaq
core   +1 more source

Searching for Legitimacy? The Motivations behind Inter-Korean Dialogue during the Mid-1980s

open access: yesRevista UNISCI, 2020
Throughout the history of inter-Korean relations, the process of engagement between 1984 and 1985 has been of little focus among studies. Yet it is worthy of close analysis as it occurred during a critical time when Cold War tensions were mounting with ...
Stephen Ranger
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Exploring the relationship between growth in online shopping and multichannel food consumers

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract During the pandemic, many food retailers began offering online shopping options, primarily in reaction to rising consumer demand for such options, which was a response to supply chain disruptions and fear of contagion and food scarcity.
Mackenzie Gill, Dawn Thilmany
wiley   +1 more source

Decades of Tight Fiscal Policy Have Left the Health Care System in Italy Ill-Prepared to Fight the COVID-19 Outbreak

open access: yesIntereconomics, 2020
Although austerity was particularly strong in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008 and its consequences in the euro area, Italian fiscal policies have been characterised by tough consolidation periods ever since the 1990s.
Franz J. Prante   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Nudging against consent is effective but lowers welfare

open access: yesScientific Reports
Behavioural nudges are often criticised because they “work best in the dark”. However, recent experimental evidence suggests that the effectiveness of nudges is not reduced when they are delivered transparently.
Mollie Gerver   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two-wave panel survey dataset on who feels affected by Hurricane Florence

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
Feeling affected by climate change related natural disasters is an important predictor of engaging in climate change mitigation behavior. We therefore collected data to identify who felt affected by Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in the United ...
Talbot M. Andrews, Oleg Smirnov
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