How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies [PDF]
, 2010 Event studies have been used in political science to study the cost of regulation (Schwert, 1981), the value of political connections (Roberts, 1990a; Fisman, 2001), the effect of political parties on defense spending (Roberts, 1990b), the importance ...
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Rejecting “Conventional” Wisdom: Estimating the Economic Impact of National Political Conventions [PDF]
This paper provides an empirical examination of the economic impact of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions on local economies. Our analysis from 1970-2005 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the country, including all cities that have ...
Robert Baade +2 more
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“And Carthage souls be glutted with our bloods” : Marlowe’s Lucanian Dido in The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage [PDF]
, 2015 textDespite most scholars agreeing that Christopher Marlowe's The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage was composed fairly contemporaneously with his adaptation of Pharsalia 1, Lucans First Booke Translated Line for Line, few have recognized the ...
Price, Destini Nicole
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BEING THE NEW YORK TIMES: THEPOLITICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A NEWSPAPER [PDF]
I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controllingfor the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidentialcampaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by ...
Riccardo Puglisi
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The Authoritarian Impulse in Constitutional Law [PDF]
, 1988 Should there be greater participation by legislators and citizens in constitutional debate, theory, and decision-making? An increasing number of legal theorists from otherwise divergent perspectives have recently argued against what Paul Brest calls the
West, Robin
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Rights and Retrenchment in the Trump Era [PDF]
, 2018 Our aim in this Article is to leverage the archival research, data, and theoretical perspectives presented in our book, Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution against Federal Litigation, to illuminate the prospects for retrenchment in the ...
Burbank, Stephen B., Farhang, Sean
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Search Bias Quantification: Investigating Political Bias in Social Media and Web Search
, 2019 Users frequently use search systems on the Web as well as online social media to learn about ongoing events and public opinion on personalities. Prior studies have shown that the top-ranked results returned by these search engines can shape user opinion ...
Eslami, M. +6 more
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Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act [PDF]
, 2019 There is a large body of literature devoted to how “policies create politics” and how feedback effects from existing policy legacies shape potential reforms in a particular area.
Altman Drew. +45 more
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Do Judges Make Regulatory Policy? An Empirical Investigation of Chevron [PDF]
In the last quarter-century, the Supreme Court has legitimated agency authority to interpret regulatory legislation, above all in Chevron U.S.A., Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc, the most-cited case in modern public law.
Miles, Thomas J., Sunstein, Cass R.
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What Americans Think of the New Insurance Marketplaces and Medicaid Expansion: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Marketplace Survey, 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 The Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces are opening for enrollment on October 1, 2013. The Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Marketplace Survey, 2013, finds that only two of five adults are aware of the marketplaces or of potential ...
Michelle M. Doty +3 more
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