How Prediction Markets can Save Event Studies [PDF]
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 ...
Snowberg, Erik +2 more
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Missionary Journalism in the Early Republican Period: Folklor Postası
Folklore journals have important value both in the past and currently in terms of allowing one to follow the course of folklore history research, the view and studies of the intellectuals of the period on folklore, and the information and findings ...
Meriç Harmancı
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Examination of Late Ottoman and Early Republic Period Public Structures Through the City of Malatya
In the 19th century, with the Tanzimat Period, the innovation movements were seen effectively in terms of social and administrative aspects. Changes in the administrative aspects have revealed new building types suitable for their functions such as post ...
Fatma Zehra Sarı, Nur Umar
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Democratic Republicanism in the Early Modern Period
This chapter aims to recover a specific intellectual tradition, a tradition that I describe as ‘democratic republicanism’. I do so by focusing on four different early modern thinkers: Johan and Pieter de la Court, Baruch Spinoza and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump's Rise, Sanders' Emergence, Clinton's Struggle [PDF]
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 presidential candidates in the year leading up to the primaries. This crucial period, labeled "the invisible primary" by
Thomas E. Patterson
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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Sądownictwo konstytucyjne we Francji po II wojnie światowej
Constitutional Judiciary in France after the Second World War. The Importance of Constitutional Republican Tradition In France, the institution of the constitutional court appeared relatively late.
Lech Jamróz
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
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Türk Ocakları and Sport in early Republican Period
The nationalist movement that emerged in the west after the French Revolution affected deeply the Ottoman Empire, a multinational empire, and the political atmosphere that emerged spreads to the Turks as well as many ethnic groups. As the ineffectiveness
Sevda Korkmaz, Turgay Biçer
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