Explaining Myanmar's Regime Transition: The Periphery is Central [PDF]
In 2010, Myanmar (Burma) held its first elections after 22 years of direct military rule. Few compelling explanations for this regime transition have emerged.
Brooker Paul +27 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Political regime, data transparency, and COVID-19 death cases. [PDF]
Annaka S.
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The Development of Capitalist Agriculture and State Formation in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1924
This article looks at the development of the sugar industry and the traditional export sectors of Dominican agriculture in relationship to state formation.
Betances, Emelio
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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Political regime and COVID 19 death rate: Efficient, biasing or simply different autocracies?An econometric analysis. [PDF]
Cassan G, Van Steenvoort M.
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A State’s Gendered Response to Political Instability: Gendering Labor Policy in Semi-Authoritarian El Salvador (1944-1972) [PDF]
Unlike much of the gender and welfare literature, this study examines why a regime that constrains pressure from below would adopt gendered social policies.
Gates, Leslie C, Griffith, Kati L
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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This thesis analyzes the relationship between politics and violence in democracy and contrast to the particular uses and meanings of institutional violence present in the political practices of a political regime: the Juarismo in Santiago del Estero ...
Celeste Schnyder
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The Influence of Political Regime on State-Level Disciplinary Actions of CPAs Sanctioned by the PCAOB. [PDF]
Al-Moshaigeh A, Dickins D, Higgs JL.
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