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of economic growth. While the impact of taxation and subsidies on such decisions is well-understood, the changing political support of transfers between ‘modern’ * double-earner households and ... ‘traditional’ single-earner households has not received much attention. Our paper attempts to explain the evolution of such policies by considering a political economy framework in which voters choose between
. In particular, we are investigating whether more federal grants are being granted in Germany for projects in federal states whose government is led by the same political party as the responsible ... projects, political alignment is associated with an average increase in public funding by almost 10,000 euro. Our results suggest that public funds for research, development and innovation projects could be
power since the mid-1970s. We find only very rare evidence for economic variables influencing the popularity of the main political parties in the federal government, thereby challenging previous studies ... to a large number of studies estimating links between economic variables and voters’ evaluations of political parties and governments in many countries. One of their main conclusions was that a clear
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS ... to promote human well-being, while autocracies rather care about the well-being of the societal group which has political power and other elites whose loyalty needs to be ensured (Acemoglu and
the long-run and short-run taxes have a stronger association with expenditures than aid. Central to this heterogeneous relationship is the political calculus between aid and tax—measured according to ... accountability and bureaucratic costs-whereby recipients offset the political costs of raising taxes against the political costs of receiving more aid. Once measures of political costs are incorporated into the
expenditure across the Indian states. These states vary widely in their socioeconomic characteristics while sharing a common political heritage based on parliamentary government. New measures of public ... accounting practices in an Online Appendix. The empirical analysis shows that the degree of privateness in India's more developed states falls substantially with greater political competition and with rising
wholesale skepticism concerning the political viability of Pigouvian pricing is at odds with its recent practical achievements. These two points are made by, first, outlining the theoretical and political ... . Page , E. A. ( 2011 ). Cashing in on climate change: political theory and global emissions trading . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , 14 , 259 - 279 . Pahle , M
theology, namely: 1) empirical practical theologies, more present in Anglo-Saxon countries, which are often in dialogue with psychology and pedagogy; 2) critical practical theologies, such as political and ... liberation theologies, which make praxis the central category of the theological task and that are in close dialogue mainly with sociology, economics and political science; 3) fundamental practical/pastoral
, especially given the highly political campaign surrounding the tax cut, which suggested that the previous VAT rate negatively discriminated against women. Therefore, retailers rounded down prices to avoid ... ://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.101990 Miklos-Thal, J., & Shaffer, G. (2021). Pass-through as an economic tool: On exogenous competition, social incidence, and price discrimination. Journal of Political
in the cited work, in particular its connection with the philosophy of freedom of the Cusanus and the reflection, with renaissance spirit, which such philosophy finds in the oratio of Pico della ... .), Platonism at the origins ofmodernity: studies on Platonism and early modern Philosophy (Dordrecht, Springer 2008), 9-12. [ Links ] El asunto, tan discutible, es bien argumentado por J. Hopkins, según
Political economy literature highlights the tactical use of intergovernmental grants for electoral purposes; however, it provides different mechanisms and explanations behind these patterns. In this ... government, and the extent to which citizens attribute local expenditure to the direct action of the local government vs the central government (local political appropriability). In addition, our model also
explaining the accumulation of public debt, like the political economy models by, e.g., Persson and Svensson (1989) , Tabellini and Alesina (1990) and Woo (2003) , and normative studies investigating ... . ( 1979 ). On the determination of the public debt . Journal of Political Economy , 87 ( 5 ), 940 - 971 . Barro , R. J. ( 1989 ). The Ricardian approach to budget deficits . Journal of Economic Perspectives
The article present's Ricoeur's contribution to the hermeneutic philosophy, on the grounds of some movements brought about by his thought. The first three movements focus on those aspects which ... movements regarding phenomenology: the introduction of the linguistic shifts into philosophy and the introduction of the hermeneutic in the phenomenological method. These three movements reflexive
This article looks into the origins of the Christian philosophy, following the historic-critical and exegetic methods applied by A. Orbe to patristic theology investigation. The author takes the work ... author also determines the conception of philosophy put forward by Justine as belonging to the Christians, which was centred in universal Logos and the resort to the Judeo-Christian typology of the
understanding of the truth, in accordance to the internal rules of theological work, and to account for the main contributions of hermeneutic philosophy, marked by two key, issues fundamental for theology and ... philosophy: language comprehension (point 3) and its occurrence in tradition (point 4). The author deals with both issues, relating them directly to hermeneutics and the theological understanding of truth
sophistication in political texts, whereas the introduction of various additional text features only marginally improves the predictive capacity. 6 We explain the choice of the signing date over, for instance, the ... , spanning from medicine to psychology, also including many studies in economics (e.g., Jansen, 2011a) and political science (e.g., Schoonvelde et al., 2019) . The FK index is calculated as follows: 0.39
Rate Mechanism (ERM II) for two years before joining the euro. rather than relative political power, governing ideology or diffusion. The European Commission has the mandate to propose sanctions on ... on political and qualitative aspects. For example, Terziev et al. (2018 ) summarise the history of the SGP and how the different adjustments since 1997 have affected the content of the agreement
of institutional quality—e.g., state development, corruption, or political exclusion—mediate the relationship between top income shares and economic policy, in particular for trade openness and ... economic policies. I focus on the role of political institutions. Consequently, throughout the paper, the term institutional quality refers to institutional features that reflect their degree of
municipalities. We find a pass-through mechanism by which local governments react to the contraction of intergovernmental grants by mainly increasing taxes rather than reducing spending. From a political economy ... macroeconomics and political economics show that the output effect of fiscal consolidation depends on its composition, as the choice of increasing revenues vs cutting expenditure is not neutral from both an
article approaches this "experiential (mystical) knowledge" from philosophy and from theology. He begins with some testimonies from the 11th and 12th centuries, especially those referring to the lectio
