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Crafting Institutions for Localized Aid
(2015-06-09)
Today, most development practitioners agree that “going local” should be the way to
deliver foreign aid. However, while this idea is widely embraced in principle,
turning it into action is the hard problem. After all, ...
Delegative democracy in Russia and Ukraine
(Elsevier, 1994-12)
This paper applies the concept of delegative democracy to contemporary developments in Russia and Ukraine. They qualify as examples of this phenomenon insofar as leaders in these states are elected by the people but use ...
The Pitfalls of International Integration: A Comment on the Bush Proposal and its Aftermath
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-01)
In January 2003, the Bush Administration proposed a new system for taxing corporate dividends, under which domestic shareholders in U.S. corporations would not be taxed on dividends they received, provided the corporation ...
Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a N orth A egean I sland: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re‐Imagined Communities
(Duke University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-12)
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-01)
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way
around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along
Weberian precepts is necessary for successful ...
Behavioral Public Finance: Tax Design as Price Presentation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
In this essay we review the evidence from marketing research about price presentation of consumer products and discuss how these lessons have been applied—consciously or unconsciously—in the design of the U.S. tax system. ...
The Composition of Capital and the Rate of Profit: A Reply to Laibman
(Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998)
In response to a critique by Laibman (1996) of earlier work (Thompson 1995) exploring the effect of technical change and accumulation on the real wage rate and thus, via the Okishio Theorem, the rate of profit, it is ...
What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICT s and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
(Peter LangWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-03)
The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia by Serguei Alex Oushakine
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-04)