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Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Henry George and Silvio Gesell: The Odd Couple

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Henry George (1839–1897) and Silvio Gesell (1862–1930) developed distinct yet overlapping economic reform agendas. Both advocated land reform, free markets, and rejection of protectionism, but differed sharply on money, interest, and taxation.
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of wages and the arbitration system in Australia's nine‐year experiment with official monetary targeting, initiated by the Fraser government in 1976. Instead of depoliticising inflation by turning it into a technical problem of monetary policy, monetarism in Australia was absorbed into the local view in which ...
Michael Beggs
wiley   +1 more source

The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial spillovers and nonlinear drivers of water-supply carbon emissions in China. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Sci Ecotechnol
Jiang L   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for “left behind” areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of ...
Benjamin Helms, Junghyun Lim
wiley   +1 more source

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