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Separation of Powers, Line Item Veto and the Tax Level: Evidence from the American States Draft 1 [PDF]
Line item veto, a feature present in most American States, gives the governor the power to veto single appropriation items from the budget. Its effects on the tax level, however, are still controversial in the empirical and theoretical literature (cf ...
Leandro M. de Magalhães, Lucas Ferrero
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Endogenous Constitutions: Politics and Politicians Matter, Economic Outcomes Don’t [PDF]
We study changes in the form of government as an example of endogenously determined constitutions. For a sample of 202 countries over the period 1950–2006, we find that most changes are relatively small and roughly equally likely to be either in the ...
Bernd Hayo, Stefan Voigt
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris +4 more
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Institutionalising electoral uncertainty and authoritarian regime survival. [PDF]
Eur J Polit Res, 2020 Bernhard M, B Edgell A, Lindberg SI.
europepmc +1 more source
Constitutionalism, Division of Power and Transaction Costs [PDF]
According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief.
Berggren, Niclas, Karlson, Nils
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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How many democratic countries have conducted COVID-19 public inquiries? An exploratory study of government-led postpandemic reviews (2020-2024). [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthBardosh K +4 more
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