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Corporate Governance Welfarism

proper boundary constraints. By looking to corporations to internalize externalities directly, welfarism thus offers an alternative way to deal with social problems that the political system has failed to ... prescriptions will have only a limited impact. Second, the very lack of consensus that impedes political solutions reemerges under and constrains welfarism by generating disagreements among shareholders

Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District

efforts to support a declining cluster emerge from the ability of affected firms to coalesce, exercise political influence, and exploit fragmented municipal decision making to preserve the status quo ... Article addresses is why cities act in that manner. While multiple explanations might exist,3 I focus on a political economy story in which entrenched interests exploit the legal and structural elements of

Entrepreneurial territories: measures, determinants, and outcomes

Given the state of our knowledge and the questions that are emerging in scientific and political circles regarding the relationships between entrepreneurship and its local context, it is worthwhile

Mediating distributive politics: political alignment and electoral business cycle effects on municipality financing in Greece

We examine the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003–2010. The misallocation of resources for political gain represents a ... Business School, University of Birmingham , Birmingham B15 2TT , UK 1 Joint Research Centre, European Commission , Rue du Champ de Mars 21, 1050 Brussels , Belgium We examine the role of political alignment

Online citizen petitions related to COVID-19 in South Korean cities: a big data analysis

What do citizens demand of their governing bodies to cope with the spread of emerging infectious diseases after recognizing the growing danger? What are the similarities and differences in political ... Yup Lee 1 Department of Political Science, Yonsei University , 105 Yonhee Hall, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722 , South Korea 2 Graduate School of Digital Analytics, Yonsei University , 50

Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

mapping of lawyers' ideologies that has overcome these hurdles. We use a new dataset that links the largest database of political ideology with the largest database of lawyers' identities to complete the ... most extensive analysis of the political ideology of American lawyers ever conducted. - I N T R O D U C T I O N Presidents have been lawyers (Slater 2008) . Turning to state executive positions

The Political Economy of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: An Exploratory Analysis

governments has been minimal notwithstanding the OECD convention (Brewster 2014) . Collectively, these developments pose an intriguing political economy puzzle. The initial passage of the FCPA in the post ... secure more business opportunities as a result. A political equilibrium in Washington in which the economic interests of foreigners systematically win out over domestic interests seems mysterious. This

Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy

on more elements than refugees alone, such as available political supply and the economic and the welfare agenda of each political party. This complexity might confound voters’ choice, making them ... choose political parties based on composite rankings of issues, ranging from resentment to endorsement of specific political initiatives on employment and welfare. On the contrary, hate events are

What factors contribute to uneven suburbanisation? Predicting the number of migrants from Warsaw to its suburbs with machine learning

of urban growth and was sustained by rural–urban commuting (Murray and Szelenyi 2009) . City growth, residential mobility, and land and housing development were under tight political control. Warsaw ... , suburbanisation “in the Western sense” has been a recent phenomenon—it is believed to have begun in the post-communist countries in the 90s, following the political transformation (Nuissl and Rink 2005; Timar and

Horizontal interactions in local personal income taxes

interactions across municipalities that share a common border, across municipalities within a distance of 100 km of each other, and across municipalities with similar political representation in the local ... matters, although only in combination with the relative population size. We also find some evidence of horizontal dependence across municipalities with similar political preferences. 1 Introduction The

The governance of regional innovation policy and its economic implications

seemingly well-designed policies were often not implemented as expected (Gianelle et  al. 2020) .1 This is due to, amongst other things, unclear attribution of responsibilities and lack of political support ... its underlying logic, formulation and implementation. Others are exogenous to the policy and relate to the broader political and governance setting in which the policy is implemented (Peters 2015

Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance

likely to happen, and although our present practices are deeply flawed, we should put in place a political and bureaucratic order to safeguard against a potential upheaval, and in the meantime slow down ... in cases that do not involve life-life tradeoffs, but rather where the primary harms imagined by precautionites a degradation of some ethical or political ideals, primarily of data privacy. And, third

Building bridges across the plurality of rural development research

, Université de Toulouse , Toulouse , France 1 SEDRD, University of Guelph , Guelph, ON , Canada Contemporary rural development has been shaped by local and global social, political, economic, and environmental ... ; democratic processes must be designed and applied to secure inclusiveness both within places and among places, while creating room for political decision-making that reflects the priorities of inhabitants

The Political Risks (if any) of Breaking the Law

legal sanctions, such that violating the Constitution or the law would entail tangible political, reputational, and social risks. Yet a raft of examples suggests, albeit not definitively, that violating ... violating the law qua law is not ordinarily subject to nonlegal sanctions. The electorate, the media, and most other potential sources of social and political sanctions reward good policy choices and sanction

Introduction: Political Risk And Public Law

, political risk analysis promises to allow a more intelligent description and evaluation of the major problems of public law. The category of second-order risks is capacious, and the political risks that ... principally concern constitutional rulemakers and other actors change over time. In literatures of development economics, contract law and (to some extent) constitutional law, one standard sense of political

The First Amendment and Political Risk

concern).19 I do not find it obvious that a rule allowing the 15 There a pornographic magazine had published a parody advertisement, labeled as such, saying that the first time the prominent political ... ). These observations in turn suggest that we should be wary of associating rule-ification with a specific political tendency. (That point has been made in connection with the related distinction between

Introduction: Political Risk And Public Law

Spring INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL RISK AND PUBLIC LAW Adrian Vermeule - often spoken the prose of risk regulation without knowing it, offering arguments about constitutional and institutional design ... that implicitly posit second-order risks and offer institutional prescriptions for managing those risks. By bringing the analytic structure of those arguments to the surface, political risk analysis

The First Amendment and Political Risk

such, saying that the “first time” the prominent political preacher Jerry Falwell had had intercourse was in a drunken incestuous encounter with his mother. Falwell, not his mother, filed the action. 16 ... rule-ification with a specific political tendency. (That point has been made in connection with the related distinction between rules and standards by, among others, Sullivan 1992.) Downloaded from

Social capital and rural development: an introduction to the special issue

conceptual framework for understanding the ‘Dark Side.’ Gürel and İzmen examine how social capital can be used to exclude citizens who are not affiliated with political elites and Sun et. al explore the ... capital for access to resources, the authors also warn of the potential of linking capital to have undesired effects for those not in favored political groups thus exacerbating inequality and inhibiting

How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime

resources, the political mandate, or the (police) powers to do so. Taking collective action is difficult in global insurance markets. Nevertheless, as we describe and analyze in this article, insurers in some ... . Yet, there was public and political disquiet about this cozy coexistence of insurance and crime. In 1968, the UK government amended the Theft Act to insert a new Section 23 that outlawed rewards for