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This paper seeks to identify the impact of political and economic conditions on a nation’s popularity/favorability ratings towards North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world’s most powerful ... Commons, Defense and Security Studies Commons Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer and Evaluation Commons, Political Economy Commons, and the Public Policy Commons
One of the most fundamental themes that combine the disciplines of political science and economics is the role played by democracy in the economic growth of a country. Does democracy accelerate or ... growth? Academic literature from economics and political science has ambiguous and often contradictory results2 to offer. The relationship between economic growth and democracy has received frequent
I investigate the role of educational attainment on state failure and political stability across the African continent. For the empirical analysis, I estimate a Linear Probability Model (LPM) for ... Commons @ IWU by the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information , please contact , USA - State Failure and Political Instability: The I Attainment in Africa mpact of Educational
This paper investigates the relationship between a country's Olympic performance and its overall economic condition, including population, economic resources, and political structures. A panel data ... on this topic, population size and economic resources are measured by using population and per capita GDP. One major focus of this research is the influence of political structure on national Olympic
these antecedent economic, political, and legal structures. I argue that these structures are at the root of hedge fund behavior, particularly during financial crises. The financial crises of two ... contours of its environment. By structures, I am referring to economic, political, and legal configurations that pre-date hedge fund market behavior. As foils to pre-existing fundamental opportunities or
This work seeks to explore the relationship between political corruption as defined by cases brought to the United States Department of Justice against individuals holding public office from the ... the official) but also of the political and legal risk associated with undertaking such an act. As common sense would provide, an official would be more likely to be a party to a corrupt act if the net
the existence of a political business cycle as it applies to GDP growth rates and real disposable income. Subsequent analysis reveals that during elections with significantly high and low GDP growth
the existence of a political business cycle as it applies to GDP growth rates and real disposable income. Subsequent analysis reveals that during elections with significantly high and low GDP growth
, perhaps, to lacking political goals of donor countries. ... reviewing Alesina and Dollar (2000), it’s clear that the distribution of bilateral aid comes from political factors such as colonial past, or how often countries vote together in the U.N. These authors find
variable representing political conditions acts as a proxy for the many exogenous impacts that affect tourism. The nature of tourism volatility due to the exogenous shocks is discussed, and a statistical ... …………………………………………………………………………………….12 B. Price Variable…………………………………………………………………………………………..12 C. Income Variable………………………………………………………………………………………..14 D. Political Variable……………………………………………………………………………………….15 VI. Data and Model
Amar Yumnam. “Backward Regions Grant Fund: History Repeats Itself.” Economic and Political Weekly Undergraduate Economic Review Krunal Desai 0 0 University of California , Berkeley , USA Follow ... repelling political corruption, decreasing poverty throughout the nation, and reforming the crippling education system. Due to these stances, a federal development program implemented in 2007 to tackle
://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/conservation/. 2 Chetan Kumar, "Whither 'Community-Based' Conservation?," Economic and Political Weekly 41 (December/January 2006/2007): 5313, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4419076?seq=1 ... conservation strategy from the fortress approach to the community-based approach? We hypothesize that geographic and political setting, economic dependency on and value of the resource, social norms, network and
determine which states could serve as treatment states for those controls, and then once I compile these three groups, I use political leaning and fall weather patterns to confirm the treatment-control ... then found treatment states that closely matched the control states. For each group, I aimed to find states with similar political climates (measured by the presidential candidate who won the state and
contentious political and socioeconomic debate. Proponents of “affirmative action” programs maintain that increased racial diversity at colleges and universities benefit White and Asian (nonminority) students ... main insight of this specification is that statewide political rhetoric affects minority graduation rates. A model controlling for “top-x” percent programs, “ban-discussion” periods, and whether the ban
economic convergence within the Member States of the European Union can help us gauge the effectiveness of this economic and political entity. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, “lasting divergence in ... is much economic literature on convergence of income levels across geographic and/or political entities. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1992) introduce a regression of the growth rate vs the logarithm of GDP
the use of a wide variety of text processing methods and data sources when analyzing financial markets. The most relevant, prominent paper in this area is Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and ... Effects, by Hassan et al. (2019) . The authors propose a text-based risk measure for quantifying firm exposure to political risk using the proportion of quarterly earnings conference-call transcripts
political philosophy. Numerous studies have been performed using empirical data to examine the relationship between economic freedom and fiscal performance (see Barro, 1994; Scully and Slottje, 1991; De ... correlated one with another. Indeed, the argument that economic freedom drives economic prosperity lies at the center of much of the ongoing political debate in the United States as it forms neoliberal
commission, as well as its repercussions within the technical staff and the political leaders both in Portugal and in the Estado da Índia. Based on research of primary Portuguese sources, this article ... brought a huge change in global political poker related with colonial policies. Because of its colonies in Africa and Asia, the Portuguese regime immediately felt threatened by those winds of change that
inequality from multiple political standpoints. By analytically weighing QE’s effects on different groups of households, this paper attempts to establish whether the Federal Reserve System, the European ... challenged for potently intruding into the world of redistributive policies, theoretically confined to democratically appointed fiscal policymakers (The Economist 2015b) . Critics from a wide political and
inequality from multiple political standpoints. By analytically weighing QE’s effects on different groups of households, this paper attempts to establish whether the Federal Reserve System, the European ... challenged for potently intruding into the world of redistributive policies, theoretically confined to democratically appointed fiscal policymakers (The Economist 2015b) . Critics from a wide political and
