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Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract People are increasingly feeling global warming's effects through extreme heat and natural disasters. How do these climate shocks affect political attitudes? We argue that the effect of climate‐related experiences depends significantly on self‐interest.
Alexander F. Gazmararian   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graduate Careers in the Post-Brexit World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby, offers a prognosis on Brexit’s effect on the graduate labour market. He argues that careers guidance should play a role in bringing about more equality in the aftermath of Brexit ...
Hooley, Tristram
core   +1 more source

Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

El referèndum. Qüestions teòriques i de l'experiència italiana

open access: yesRevista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2008
Aquest assaig és fruit de la convicció que la tesi sostinguda habitualment, segons la qual el referèndum seria un instrument de democràcia directa, és errònia.
Massimo Luciani
doaj  

Referenda as a Catch-22 [PDF]

open access: yes
The result of a referendum delivers a significant amount of information about social preferences to each composite member of the society. This paper argues that, beyond this obvious fact, the choice not to offer a referendum by an authority, although ...
Xefteris, Dimitrios
core   +1 more source

Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
wiley   +1 more source

Representative policymakers? A behavioural experiment with French politicians

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This study leverages an online behavioural experiment to analyse whether politicians' decisions align with citizens' preferences and with citizens' decisions within the same decision environment. We recruited 760 local politicians and 655 non‐politicians in France to participate as policymakers in a taxation‐redistribution game.
Roberto Brunetti, Matthieu Pourieux
wiley   +1 more source

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