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Unintended Consequences of Fiscal Governance Rules on the Long‐Term Financial Position of State Governments

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fiscal governance rules are viewed as prudent tools that promote balanced budgets, lower tax burdens, and ensure modest use of long‐term debt. However, these rules can create incentives that inadvertently worsen the government's long‐term financial position. Focusing on unfunded retiree benefits and long‐term debt, this study finds that states
Sharon N. Kioko
wiley   +1 more source

Who Leads, What Matters? Machine Learning and the Complexity of University Performance. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ballestar MT, Komp-Leukkunen K, Malfeito-Gaviro J, Ramos A, Sainz J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Signatures of Extreme Events in Cumulative Entropic Spectrum. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Drzazga-Szczȩśniak EA, Kaczmarek AZ, Kielak M, Gupta S, Gnyp JT, Pluta K, Ba K Z, Szczepanik P, Szczȩśniak D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mini‐Public's Statements and Media as Transmitters of Deliberative Judgments: A Field Experiment on a Citizens' Jury on Forest Policy

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deliberative mini‐publics have become commonplace in policymaking on complex issues such as climate policies. When assessing the macro‐political impacts of deliberative mini‐publics, it is important to examine how information about their procedures and outcomes is transmitted to the wider public.
Mikko Leino, Maija Jäske, Maija Setälä   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Cook PJ, Jeuland M, Ludwig J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
wiley   +1 more source

Sleepless in Society: Introducing the Concept of Public Sleep. [PDF]

Clocks Sleep
Cunningham TJ, Zeng S, Song SH.
europepmc   +1 more source

There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) views power as crucial in policy processes, but the nature of coalition power, its determinants, and how to empirically measure it remain understudied. In this article, we use a mixed method approach and social network analysis to explore power relationships in the biodiversity policy subsystem in ...
Alix d'Agostino, Jascha Egli, Daniel Kübler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Procedural Justice in Environmental Decision Making: An Analysis of Public Participation Language in State Level Cumulative Impact Legislation. [PDF]

Environ Justice
Schulz AJ, Rempel Fisher GM, Nadeem A, Savoie K, Israel BA, Landrum T, Stanley E, Sampson N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source