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The Political Economy Of Polarized Pluralism, Salvatore Babones, Riccardo Pelizzo

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Sartori’s party system typology at least because, as Peter Mair recently pointed out, “there has been very little new thinking on how to classify systems since the seminal work of Sartori” (Mair, forthcoming). The first important party system taxonomy was proposed by Duverger in his Political Parties (1951). Duverger in this classic study identified three types of party systems: the one party system, the two party system and the multi-party system. By the early 1960s Sartori had become quite unhappy with this typology (Sartori, 1982). Sartori thought that both the one-party and …

Land Values As A Source Of Local Government Finance, Tom Dunne

Books/Book Chapters

Funding local government has been a permanent feature of debates about public policy in Ireland and Many feel that the balance of power between local and central government is weighted too much in

This paper suggests that the concept of economic rent, on which the justification for property taxes rests and its relevance to the property market in a modern, economically successful and urbanised Ireland, needs to be vented, discussed and debated.

The proposition is that if a greater understanding was created about the economic characteristics of landed property both value capture and local property taxes would achieve greater public …

Mcdonald’S And Samoan Youth: A Case Study Of Globalization, Anna Schechter

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The topics of change, development and globalization are extremely pertinent to modern-day Samoa. The past ten years have lead to a vast increase in the inter-connectedness of Samoa to the world economically, socially, and culturally. This paper uses McDonald’s as a representation of the globalization occurring in Samoa in order to better understand the real impacts of these abstract terms. Samoan youth act as a medium in which to explore this topic. They are often the most attune to the impacts of globalization and perhaps even act as a catalyst for change. Thus this paper explores, specifically, the relationship between …

The Politics Of Wto Enforcement Mechanism, Pao Li Chang

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper attempts to develop a formal economic framework to analyze the influences of domestic political considerations by democratic governments in shaping the WTO enforcement outcomes following a violation ruling against the defendant. Since a different mix of import and export sectors in the defendant and complainant country will benefit from the various potential enforcement outcomes, they become competing forces which steer the strategic interactions between the disputing governments. The results of the paper illustrate the complainant's strategy in selecting the retaliation list, and the likelihood of the defendant's compliance or compensation in response to the proposed or foreseeable retaliation, …

Board Structure, Political Influence And Firm Performance - An Empirical Study On Publicly Listed Firms In China, Dongping Han, Fusheng Wang, Heng Yue

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

The board of directors is the cornerstone of any effective corporate governance system. A well-structured board can effectively monitor and motivate management of a company for the benefit of the company's shareholders. This paper investigates the relationship between board structure and firm performance using a sample of 490 publicly listed firms in China. The characteristics of board structure we examined include: board size, inside/outside/independent directors, CEO/Chair duality, stock holdings of directors, the rewards to directors and aged directors. We find significant relationship between firm performance and three characteristics: the rewards to director, the stock holdings of directors and the existence …

The Politics Of Wto Enforcement Mechanism, Pao Li Chang

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper attempts to develop a formal economic framework to analyze the influences of domestic political considerations by democratic governments in shaping the WTO enforcement outcomes following a violation ruling against the defendant. Since a different mix of import and export sectors in the defendant and complainant country will benefit from the various potential enforcement outcomes, they become competing forces which steer the strategic interactions between the disputing governments. The results of the paper illustrate the complainant's strategy in selecting the retaliation list, and the likelihood of the defendant's compliance or compensation in response to the proposed or foreseeable retaliation, …

Production And Political Economy In The Animation Industry: Why Insourcing And Outsourcing Occur, Feichin, Ted Tschang, Andrea Goldstein

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper presents a framework for explaining production patterns in creative industries. In particular, we focus on the conditions under which insourcing occurs in the US threedimensional animation industry and where outsourcing in the conventional two-dimensional animation industry occurs to the Philippines. The work that is outsourced is not the most creative component of the entire production process. Institutional decisions (as related to the location of decision makers and primary markets), and business conditions in the world market, have both positively and negatively affected the local Filipino industry and its position within the global division of labor. Implications for knowledge-based …

The Lingnan Commentary - April 2004 (No. 9), Hong Kong Institute Of Business Studies, Lingnan University

The Lingnan Commentary 嶺南評論 : A Quarterly Review of Economic, Business and Social Issues by Lingnan University

No abstract provided.

Social Trust And Economic Governance, Fali Huang

Research Collection School Of Economics

The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between social trust and economic governance using a principal-agent model with stochastic returns. To mitigate the inherent moral hazard problem both intrinsic and extrinsic incentives are useful. The cooperative tendency of an agent measures his intrinsic discipline against shirking, the distribution of which characterizes social trust in society. The economic governance methods include direct monitoring and efficiency wage. The main results are the following. An agent with a higher cooperative tendency needs less monitoring and a lower wage to make effort, which brings higher profit for the principal. But competition among principals for more …

The Organisation For Economic Cooperation And Development, Richard Woodward

Articles

This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global governance.

2004 American Incentive System Almanac, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

Notes On Sraffa Money Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Cozzi, T., & Marchionatti, R. (Eds.). (2001). Piero Sraffa’s political economy: A centenary estimate. Routledge.
• Shaikh, A. (2004). On Sraffa's comment that i -> r, with i determined by the Bank or the Stock Exchange (Unpublished handwritten notes).

Inflation Classical Marx Growth + Inflation, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A. M., Maniatis, T., & Petralias, N. (1999). Explaining inflation and unemployment: An alternative to neoliberal economic theory. In A. Vlachou (Ed.), Contemporary economic theory: Radical critiques of neoliberalism (pp. 89–112). London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Gillman, M., Harris, M. N., & Mátyás, L. (2004). Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect. Empirical Economics, 29(1), 149–167.

• Earley, J. S. (1981). What caused worldwide inflation: Excess liquidity, excessive credit, or both? Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 117(2), 213–243.

• Ramamurthy, B. (2003, September). Inflation, money supply, and budget deficit: Theory and an empirical exercise [Unpublished course …

Globalization Conference Opening Remarks, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2001, May 7). ECO 108: R. Bernal, globalization and size [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Manuscript.

• Wedderburn, J. (2001, October 17). Letter to Anwar Shaikh regarding the Seventh Conference of the Association of Caribbean Economists (ACE) [Unpublished letter]. Manuscript.

• Wedderburn, J. (2001, October 17). Request from the Association of Caribbean Economists [Unpublished email correspondence]. Manuscript.

• Association of Caribbean Economists. (n.d.). VII Conference of Caribbean Economists: Preliminary programme (follow-up) [Unpublished conference document]. Manuscript.

• Greenhouse, S. (2005, May 12). Forced labor said to bind 12.3 million people around the world. The New …

Sraffa, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A. (1992, April 22). Sraffa [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2004, October 20). Shape of distribution of (K/L)s [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Price–value deviations [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2004, December 9). Price–value deviations [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2003, April 23). Mathematical equations [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2009, March 5). Profits and surplus 2008.xls: Main—Pricing cannot create aggregate profit (Marx Vol. I; Sraffa, pp. 3–5) [Spreadsheet printout].

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Notes on Sraffa [Annotated typed manuscript].

• Shaikh, A. (2009, March 5). Sraffa [Unpublished handwritten …

The Timing, Intensity, And Composition Of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis Of Structural Policy Windows In The States, John M. De Figueiredo

Faculty Scholarship

This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical framework based on recurring “structural policy windows” and argues that these types of windows should have a large effect on the intensity and timing of interest group activity. Using a new database of all lobbying expenditures in the U.S. states ranging up to 25 years, the paper shows interest group lobbying increases substantially during one of these structural windows in particular--the budgeting process. Spikes in lobbying during budgeting are driven primarily by business groups. Moreover, even groups relatively unaffected by budgets lobby …

The Economic Mythology Of Neoliberalism, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2004). The economic mythology of neoliberalism [Manuscript of material included in an edited volume]. In A. Saad-Filho & D. Johnston (Eds.), Neoliberalism: A critical reader. London, England: Pluto Press.

The Politics Of Wto Enforcement Mechanism, Pao-Li Chang

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper attempts to develop a formal economic framework to analyze the influences of domestic political considerations by democratic governments in shaping the WTO enforcement outcomes in the wake of a violation ruling against the defendant. Since a different mix of import and export sectors in the defendant and complainant country will benefit from the various potential enforcement outcomes, they become competing forces which steer the strategic interactions between the disputing governments. The results of the paper illustrate the complainant’s strategy in selecting the retaliation list, and the likelihood of the defendant’s compliance or compensation in response to the proposed …

My Trade Papers, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. Globalization and the myth of free trade [Book-chapter excerpt]. (n.d.).
• Nayyar, D. Globalization and free trade: Theory, history, and reality [Opening page of a book chapter]. (n.d.).
• Shaikh, A. (2004, February). The economic mythology of neoliberalism [Annotated essay manuscript].
• Shaikh, A. (1979, Fall). Foreign trade and the law of value: Part I [Journal article]. Science & Society.
• Shaikh, A. (1980). Foreign trade and the law of value: Part II [Journal article]. Science & Society.
• Shaikh, A. M. Free trade, unemployment, and economic policy [Book-chapter excerpt]. (n.d.).
• Shaikh, A. The laws of international exchange …

Exploring Children’S Rights In The World Of Work, Jean N. Scandlyn

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market by Jeremy Seabrook. London: Pluto, 2001. 166pp.