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RETRACTED ARTICLE: “STABILITY” VERSUS STABILITY: FAILS & LOSSES OF PUBLIC POLICY

Сравнительная политика, 2020
RETRACTED ARTICLEThis essay is dedicated to the study of «stability» ideas, existing in the political sphere, as one of the key points of offi cial power discourse.
K. O. Telin
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Political Salience and Regime Resilience [PDF]

We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents’ expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives, and we show that comparative statics in salience characterize stability.
Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian, Huck, Steffen, Humphreys, Macartan   +2 more
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summary Authoritarialism as Political Regime: Analysis of Historical and Empirical Studies

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
This article is devoted to the problems of existence of authoritarian regimes. The ambiguity of the resulting data determines the importance of the considered research. Authoritarianism is quite complicated socio-political phenomenon.
O. D. Grossman
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Underground railroads: citizen entitlements and unauthorized mobility in the antebellum period and today [PDF]

, 2010
In recent years, some scholars and prominent political figures have advocated the deepening of North American integration on roughly the European Union model, including the creation of new political institutions and the free movement of workers across ...
Archibold R. C., Blackett R. J.M., Bordewich F. M., Bordewich F. M., Brown H., Buchanan A., Cabrera L., Caney S., Carens J., Christie B., Clinton C., Coffin L., Ellingwood K., Eschbach K., Fox V., Franklin J. H., Graham O., Grossman D., Hadden S. E., Hayworth J. D., Hendricks T., Hoeffer M., Humez J., Huntington S., Innes S., Innes S., Kochhar R., Lowance M. I., Lucas R. E.B., Luis Cabrera, Manley J. P., McCombs B., Mitchell L. L., Moellendorf D., Pacheco J. F., Pastor R. A., Pastor R. A., Pickard M., Pogge T., Pollack A., Rawls J., Sen A., Still W., Tancredo T.   +43 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
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The persistence of media control under consolidated authoritarianism: containing Kazakhstan’s digital media [PDF]

, 2015
Citizens of Kazakhstan have greater access to the Internet now than at any time in the past. However, the Nazarbaev regime has systematically cut off the supply of political analysis on the country's web sites while simultaneously shifting popular on ...
Anceschi, Luca
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Meritocracy as Eastern Alternative to the Western Public Administration Traditions in the 21st Century

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015
The article discusses political meritocracy phenomenon. The author examines political and economic backgrounds of the meritocracy concept occurrence within the political science discourse as well as distinctive features of that process.
V. S. Gerasimov
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