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Does politician turnover foster firm risk-taking? The moderating role of political ties heterogeneity
Many studies have addressed the issues of political risk while these studies have given scarce attention to politician turnover. This study thus...
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Political turnover, public employment, and local economic development: New empirical evidence on the impact of local political dynasties in the Brazilian “Nordeste”
The present paper assesses the impact of the size of the municipal public sector on local economic growth and the extent to which it is conditioned...
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Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case
Why do some countries escape the political resource curse while others do not? Most scholars argue that avoiding the claimed anti-democratic effects...
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Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line
Data from the General Social Survey are used to examine the political polarization in the United States, by examining presidential periods from 1972...
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Gang Rule(s): Towards a Political Economy of Youth Gang Dynamics in Nicaragua
This article explores the longitudinal dynamics of youth gang transformation in urban Nicaragua. On the basis of an overview of successive gang...
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Understanding the Causes of High Labor Turnover and Absenteeism in the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Industry: Interviews with (Female) Workers and Management Personnel
This chapter presents findings of a study on the Ethiopian textile industry with regard to the perceived major causes of absenteeism and turnover by...
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Political Economy of Air Pollution in Kenya
Air pollution is a major environmental health risk factor in Nairobi, Kenya. Most research conducted on air pollution in Nairobi has focused on...
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Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics
This paper argues that parties abroad are the actors of a new arena for citizenship and party politics. The proliferation of overseas voting and the...
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Political and Institutional Transformations
This chapter presents a political genealogy of urban transformation. It analyses the 30 year history of changing state institutions, with a...
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Global banking and the spillovers from political shocks at the core of the world economy
When do political shocks in core countries reverberate across the global financial system? We identify cross-border banking as a distinct...
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An analysis of political uncertainty and corporate investment cycles in Pakistan
This paper documents the cycles in corporate investments around national elections in Pakistan from 2000 to 2016. It employed the investment-Q model...
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Addressing Entry Procedure of Political Asylum Seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa
Beyond argument, voluntary migration, especially in search of labor, exists in the Sub-Saharan Africa. However, people migrate due to several...
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Alter-nation? Factions, Coalitions and Environmental Governance in the Context of Contested Post-apartheid Local State Democratisation
Many African states have become electoral democracies, but others are still run by electoral authoritarian regimes, and/or exhibit procedural but not...
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The Anti-political Identities of East German Youth
Positive pronatalism stabilized birth rates, but twenty-year birth cycles led to demographic bottlenecks in relation to younger cohorts’ chances for...
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Job Satisfaction and Politics in the Modern Workplace: An Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects of Gender and Age on the Perception of Organizational Politics-Job Satisfaction Relationship
Employee job satisfaction is an important attitudinal variable for many reasons, and due to the current shortage of workers, it may be even more...
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Foreign aid, oil revenues, and political accountability: Evidence from six experiments in Ghana and Uganda
Foreign aid may act much like oil money in reducing voters’ willingness to demand accountability from their government, enabling corruption,...
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Institutional inertia, local leadership turnover, and changes in the structure of fiscal expenditure
Taking the perspective of local party and government leadership change and using L-kurtosis to analyze provincial panel data in China from 1996 to...
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Introduction: Development Challenges in Myanmar: Political Development and Politics of Development Intertwined
Myanmar faces enormous development challenges in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain landscape both in terms of politics and international...
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Front-Line Social Workers’ Practices Under the Political and Sanitary Crisis in Chile
In October 2019, mass civil protests erupted in Chile questioning the country’s vast and historically rooted inequalities and injustices. These...
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The Last Strike: Age, Career Incentives and Taxation in China
Enhancing taxation capacity is crucial to state building in develo** countries. While numerous studies argue that political selection serves as a...
