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The Effect of the Budget Cycle on Native American Health Outcomes
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Indian Health Service provides healthcare for 2.5 million Alaskan Natives and Native Americans. However, health disparities between Native Americans and other groups have been widening. One important factor for this trend is funding. In this paper, I document the effect of funding constraints on mortality outcomes using fixed effects models. I
Patrick Carlin
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Letter: Stanley Shirk to Ida M. Tarbell, July 25, 1929 [PDF]
, 1929 Letter of two ...
Shirk, Stanley
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
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Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adaptive regulations, designed to balance flexibility with accountability, can embed provisions that unintentionally leave room for firms to shirk on their responsibilities by exploiting flexibility. We call these provisions “regulatory gray areas,” and ask: how should we understand (non‐)compliance in adaptive regulatory settings?
Liza Wood +3 more
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Letter: Stanley Shirk to Ida M. Tarbell, June 5, 1928 [PDF]
, 1928 Letter of two ...
Shirk, Stanley
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
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The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance.
David Hagebölling
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Letter re: prisoner of war [PDF]
, 1944 Letter from Carrie Shirk to Amon Carter regarding her son, Lt. John F. Shirk, a POW at Oflag 64, Germany.Oklahoma City 4, Okla. Jan. 3, 1944. Mr. Amon G. Carter, Star Telegram, Ft. Worth, Texas. Dear Mr. Carter, I am writing you at the request of my son,
Shirk, Carrie N.
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IMF Conditionality on Corruption: The Politics of Good Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a systematic analysis of IMF loan conditionality on corruption and argue that the Fund's pursuit of anti‐corruption measures is tempered by two political costs. First, because corruption is politically sensitive, the IMF risks destabilizing recipient governments and provoking crises.
Merih Angin +3 more
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