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The Impact of Political Scandals on Trust in State Institutions: Lithuanian Case Analysis
Politologija, 2020 This article raises the question of whether the political scandals that take place in Lithuania have an effect on public trust in Lithuania’s state institutions and, if so, what kind of an effect can be perceived.
Inga Patkauskaitė-Tiuchtienė
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we tackle the crisis of political trust and public engagement with politics by investigating new methods and tools to watch and take part in televised political debates.
Buckingham Shum S. +4 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 +2 more
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Methoden, Daten, Analysen, 2018 Today, comparative social scientists have ample survey data to test the generalizability of theories related to political trust. Unless its measurement invariance has been established, they run the risk of drawing invalid conclusions though.
Wiebke Breustedt
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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 +4 more
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Re-Conceptualization of Political Trust in Relation to Justice
Siyasal: Journal of Political SciencesThis study seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of political trust by uncovering its moral and affective dimensions, particularly its relationship with justice.
Hazal Altunkulp Çoban
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THE PUBLIC TRUST APPROACH TO POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES [PDF]
Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e PolíticaThis study argues that conspiracy theorizing essentially revolves around trust and distrust. Political conspiracy theories constitute symptoms of generalized political distrust -what I call the public trust approach to conspiracy theories.
Tomás Lima Pimenta
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Family Control and the Rent-Seeking Society [PDF]
, 2003 The small number of very large family-controlled corporate groups in many countries combined with their long continuity of control and ability to act discretely give these organizations a comparative advantage in political rent-seeking. This advantage is
Morck, Randall K., Yeung, Bernard
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