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Discretionary power, rent-seeking and corruption. [PDF]
This article considers corruption as a breach of contract between a principal and an agent. This does not necessarily imply that corruption is immoral, for the nature of the violation actually depends on the features of the underlying contract.
Enrico Colombatto
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5‐Methylcytosine Analysis of miRNAs in Minimal Change Disease
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Minimal change disease (MCD) is a glomerular disorder, which is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children. Additionally, the prevalence of MCD in adults has been increasing in recent years. During protein synthesis, noncoding RNAs can be regulated through a variety of modifications, which helps preserve biological diversity and ...
Huiyi Zeng +14 more
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Water Alternatives, 2013 In the early and mid-1980s, two seminal papers on agricultural water management came as a shock to the international professional community. They drew attention to the fact that public irrigation is particularly prone to rent-seeking and corruption. Both
Walter Huppert
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FORMS OF GOVERNANCE AND THE SIZE OF RENT-SEEKING [PDF]
In this paper we present a model of an organization where agents can choose between productive and rent-seeking activities. We consider two governance institutions, single ownership and corporate governance or parliament rule. Applications include models
Luis C. Corchon
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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Rent-seeking with scarce talent: a model of preemptive hiring [PDF]
In the standard model of a rent-seeking contest, firms optimally employ resources in an attempt to win the contest and obtain the rent. Typically, it is assumed that these resources may be hired at any desired level at some fixed, exogenous per-unit cost.
Paul Pecorino, Sami Dakhlia
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
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Party Activists, Campaign Funding and the Quality of Government [PDF]
We study the formation of government policy in democracies when turnout depends on party activists and campaign spending ‐ parties’ ‘political capital’.
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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