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Explaining Myanmar's Regime Transition: The Periphery is Central [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Capitalist Agriculture and State Formation in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1924

open access: yes, 1993
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
core  

The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A State’s Gendered Response to Political Instability: Gendering Labor Policy in Semi-Authoritarian El Salvador (1944-1972) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
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
core   +1 more source

On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Democratización subnacional a la luz de los usos políticos del poder de policía del estado santiagueño durante el juarismo, 1995-2004

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2012
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
doaj   +1 more source

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