287 research outputs found
Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors
Trust, Salience and Deterrence: Evidence from an Antitrust Experiment
We present results from a laboratory experiment identifying the main channels through which different law enforcement strategies deter organized economic crime. The absolute level of a fine has a strong deterrence effect, even when the exogenous probability of apprehension is zero. This effect appears to be driven by distrust or fear of betrayal, as it increases significantly when the incentives to betray partners are strengthened by policies offering amnesty to âturncoat whistleblowersâ. We also document a strong deterrence effect of the sum of fines paid in the past, which suggests a significant role for salience or availability heuristic in law enforcement
A Blessing and a Curse? Political Institutions in the Growth and Decay of Generalized Trust: A Cross-National Panel Analysis, 1980â2009
Despite decades of research on social capital, studies that explore the relationship between political institutions and generalized trustâa key element of social capitalâacross time are sparse. To address this issue, we use various cross-national public-opinion data sets including the World Values Survey and employ pooled time-series OLS regression and fixed- and random-effects estimation techniques on an unbalanced panel of 74 countries and 248 observations spread over a 29-year time period. With these data and methods, we investigate the impact of five political-institutional factorsâlegal property rights, market regulations, labor market regulations, universality of socioeconomic provisions, and power-sharing capacityâon generalized trust. We find that generalized trust increases monotonically with the quality of property rights institutions, that labor market regulations increase generalized trust, and that power-sharing capacity of the state decreases generalized trust. While generalized trust increases as the government regulation of credit, business, and economic markets decreases and as the universality of socioeconomic provisions increases, both effects appear to be more sensitive to the countries included and the modeling techniques employed than the other political-institutional factors. In short, we find that political institutions simultaneously promote and undermine generalized trust
Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions
Individuals responses to economic cycles: Organizational relevance and a multilevel theoretical integration
The Effects of Remittances on Output Per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Social and Cultural Sustainability: Criteria, Indicators, Verifier Variables for Measurement and Maps for Visualization to Support Planning
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