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Plurality rule is mostly criticized from being capable of choosing an alternative considered as worst by a strict majority.
This paper considers elections in which the agenda consists of potential candidates strategically choosing whether or not
to enter the election. In this context, we examine the ability of scoring rules to fulfil the Condorcet criterion. We show
for the case of three potential candidates that Plurality rule is the only scoring rule that satisfies a version of the Condorcet
criterion in two cases: 1) when preferences are single-peaked and, 2) when preferences are single-dipped.
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Bernardo MorenoEmail: |
M. Socorro Puy (Corresponding author)Email: |
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David S. Loughran Ashlesha Datar M. Rebecca Kilburn 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(3):223-242
The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce
or compensate for a child’s initial endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family
size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply
that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.
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M. Rebecca KilburnEmail: |
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We study and compare equilibrium platforms in models of unidimensional electoral competition with two and four policy motivated
parties. We first analyze the plurality game, where the party getting the most votes is elected and implements its proposed
platform. Restrictions on the set of credible announcements are needed to get existence of equilibria. Comparing equilibria
with two and four parties, we obtain that moderate parties react to the introduction of extreme parties by proposing the same
or more extreme equilibrium platforms. We then study the proportional system, where the policy implemented is a weighted sum
of the proposals, with the voting shares as weights. Here, the existence of extreme parties leads moderate ones to choose
more centrist platforms. We finally test the robustness of our results with respect to, first, the enlargement of the strategy
space to entry decisions and, second, to asymmetric distributions of voters' blisspoints.
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Georges Casamatta (Corresponding author)Email: |
Philippe De DonderEmail: |
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This study analyses the relationships between export, import and economic growth for the 13 transition economies. Empirical
results show that there is a unidirectional causality from economic growth to export. Empirical findings show that the growth-led
export hypothesis is valid in those countries and growth is rather shaped by increase in import demand.
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Salih BarişikEmail: |
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The comparison of the automobile industry in China and India allows us to shed light on the economic processes of emergence
at large. There is a stark contrast in the capacities of autonomisation and endogenisation of the sector in the two countries.
This contrast serves as an analyser of the relationships between the modes of sector opening and the paths of technological
catching-up that is at the core of the phenomenon of emergence.
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Joel RuetEmail: |
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Winston T. H. Koh 《Social Choice and Welfare》2005,25(1):207-220
We present a general framework to study the project selection problem in an organization of fallible decision-makers. We show
that when the organizational size and the majority rule for project acceptance are optimized simultaneously, the optimal quality of decision-making, as determined by the decision criterion, is invariant, and depends only on the expertise of decision-makers. This result clarifies that the circumstances under which the decision-making
quality varies with the organizational structure are situations where the organizational size or majority rule is restricted
from reaching the optimal level. Moreover, in contrast to earlier findings in the literature that the hierarchy and the polyarchy
are generally sub-optimal structures, we show that when the size, structure and decision criterion are simultaneously optimized,
the hierarchy and the polyarchy are in fact the only possible optimal organizational structures when decision-making costs are present.
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Winston T. H. KohEmail: |
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The current crisis of neoliberalism is calling into question the relevance of key international institutions. We analyze the
origins, nature, and possible impacts of the crisis through comparing two such institutions: the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Both originated in the post-World War II U.S.-led hegemonic order and were transformed
as part of the transition to global neoliberalism. We show that while the IMF and the WTO have been part of the same hegemonic
project, their distinct institutional features have put them on significantly different trajectories. Historical differences
in the two institutions’ systems of rules have placed the IMF in a more vulnerable position than the WTO, which provides clues
to the future contours of global economic governance.
Nitsan Chorev is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. She is the author of Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: from Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007), and is now working on a book on the global politics of health. Sarah Babb is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is the author of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which explores the impact of American politics on the World Bank and regional development institutions. 相似文献
Nitsan Chorev (Corresponding author)Email: |
Sarah BabbEmail: |
Nitsan Chorev is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. She is the author of Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: from Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007), and is now working on a book on the global politics of health. Sarah Babb is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is the author of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which explores the impact of American politics on the World Bank and regional development institutions. 相似文献
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The paper examines the role of the banking network of foreign banks, namely Greek and Italian banks, on the transfer of remittances
of Albanian immigrants. Remittances through the official network that is formed mainly by the banking network, grew much higher
in comparison to non-official network during the period 1994–2006. The paper finds that the growth of the amount of remittances
conveyed through the official network as part of the total amount of remittances is related to the evolution of branches of
Greek and Italian banks in Albania.
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Nikolaos SariannidisEmail: |
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We study the general class of two-player public-policy contests and specify the asymmetry condition under which a more restrained government intervention that reduces the contestants’ prizes has the “perverse” effect of increasing their aggregate lobbying efforts.
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Shmuel NitzanEmail: |
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The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This article presents a simple conceptual framework integrating three couple-related outcomes analyzed in this volume: wage
differentials in earnings related to couple formation, household formation (including cohabitation and registration as Registered
Domestic Partnership), and intra-household allocation of income. It also discusses some of the articles’ main findings.
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Lisa K. Jepsen (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This paper examines the main characteristics of the Chinese banking industry. In particular, it analyses the main performance
indicators of the system together with some prospects of future development. The paper also considers the problems related
to high levels of non-performing loans and the internationalization paths of the Chinese banking market. In spite of some
recent reforms, further legislative improvements are required to develop the system and to allow a gradual opening to foreign
competition.
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Rubens PauluzzoEmail: |
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Bruce E. Kaufman 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):285-299
The most famous and influential diagram in modern (neoclassical) labor economics is the model of wage determination by supply
and demand. Using concepts and ideas from institutional economics, I argue that the theory of a perfectly competitive labor
market is logically contradictory and, hence, the demand/supply diagram cannot exist on the plane of pure theory. Four other
fundamental theorems concerning labor markets are also derived, as are implications about the theoretical foundation of the
field of industrial relations and the economic evaluation of labor and employment policy.
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Bruce E. KaufmanEmail: |
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Peter N. Stearns 《Theory and Society》2007,36(4):373-379
This is a discussion of two books by Cas Wouters, Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West 1890–2000 (London: Sage, 2004), and Informalization: Manners and Emotions since 1890 (Sage, forthcoming 2007, English version).
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Peter N. StearnsEmail: |
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Alan J. Levy 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2008,36(3):281-291
This paper critically appraises the therapeutic action of play in psychodynamic child therapy and identifies obstacles to
utilizing play therapeutically with children. An examination of the functions of action and verbal means of communication
as well as their roles in shaping therapeutic relationships in treating children is provided in light of recent theoretical
advances. The significance of engaging children directly through play and for redressing the balance between action and verbalization
in child therapy is discussed.
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Alan J. LevyEmail: |
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We analyze the effect that state licensing of radiologic technologists (RTs) has had upon RT wages with a unique dataset that
allows us to control for place of work and job specialization. Using OLS and several measures of licensing, we find evidence
that RTs working in states with licensing statutes earn as much as 3.3% more than RTs working in states without licensing.
When we control for endogeneity using instrumental variables (IV) estimation, our estimate of the licensing premium doubles
(6.9%). Our results provide further support for existing theories of the effects of occupational licensing on the wages of
practitioners.
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Robert J. Thornton (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The inverse plurality rule—an axiomatization 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Under the ‘inverse plurality rule’, voters specify only their least preferred alternative. Our first result establishes that
this rule is the only scoring rule that satisfies the minimal veto condition (MV). We then prove that the inverse plurality
rule is characterized by MV and the four well known conditions that characterize scoring rules; namely, Anonymity (A), Neutrality
(N), Reinforcement (RE) and Continuity (CO). Our new characterization result is related to the characterizations of approval
voting and of the widely used plurality rule. We finally show how the axiomatization of the inverse plurality rule can be
extended to the axiomatization of elementary scoring rules (vote for t-alternatives scoring rules).
We are indebted to two anonymous referees for their most useful comments.
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Eyal Baharad (Corresponding author)Email: |
Shmuel NitzanEmail: |
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Nonprofit Isomorphism: An Australia–United States Comparison 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jeffrey Leiter 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(1):67-91
This paper examines the organizational structures of nonprofit organizations in Australia and the United States. Using random
samples of nonprofits drawn from the two organizational populations, the analysis compares the extent of structural resemblance
or isomorphism in each. It detects similar levels of isomorphism for several structural characteristics. The paper interprets
this finding as reflecting expectations for nonprofit organizations that stretch worldwide.
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Jeffrey LeiterEmail: |
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This paper concerns the author’s countertransference reflections on her work with a gay adolescent who identifies with powerfully
destructive internal objects, including Hitler and the Monster. The author describes her countertransference inquiry through
which she experiences her own potential destructiveness in order to help accommodate her adolescent patient’s rejected and
disowned self states.
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Shoshana RingelEmail: |
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António Portugal Duarte 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(1):157-173
This study aims to analyse the Portuguese economic policy of disinflation through a nominal stabilization policy of the Portuguese
escudo. We study the pegging of the Portuguese escudo to the deutschmark knowing the reputation of the Bundesbank for its
anti-inflationary record. The acceptance of German monetary policy allowed the Portuguese economy to achieve its primary goal
of price stability. The nominal stability policy of the escudo may serve as an example for other small economies that may
be presently involved in the European integration process such as the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.
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António Portugal DuarteEmail: |
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This paper explores the culture in which academic economists work, and tries to show how an appreciation of this culture makes
their work more understandable and valuable to mainstream sociology. Economists are not interested in representing reality,
but in constructing models that simplify reality to isolate mechanisms that account for observed phenomena. Economists have
a distinctive epistemic culture, sustained by the discourse through which they talk and think about their work. This discourse
mediates the relationship between the mathematical models they devise and the economic phenomena to which they apply. This
study reveals economists' culture based on in-depth interviews with academic economists and an ethnographic study of economic
departments in Israel.
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Yuval YonayEmail: |