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04 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

2003
Chapter

Regulatory Laws and Political Culture in the United States and Germany

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; Germany

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

"Right now we're letting the ends of the ideological spectrum and the entrenched power of legacy interests stalemate a path to the future," Lassiter says. "That's a thing worth fighting." “Right now we're... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

24 Mar 2022
News

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Robert T. Powers

During his tenure as CEO, Powers expanded Nalco’s international presence and diversified Nalco’s product lines – moving beyond water-treatment into specialty and industrial... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

August 2022
Teaching Note

Political Legitimacy and Global Capital Markets: Malaysia’s 1MDB (A) and (B)

By: Meg Rithmire

Teaching note for HBS Case Nos. 720-030 and 721-042. View Details

Keywords: Malaysia

2021
Book

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

We want to change how people see power: not just as a blunt tool reserved for the privileged few, or as a dirty business that one should stay away from, but as energy for everyone to harness to make our life, work, and society better. We hope that our democratizing... View Details

Keywords: Power Relationships; Power and Influence; Change; Society

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Mar 2015
News

Research Brief: Political Capital

partisan message. “It proactively persuades them to go out and vote,” Chung explains. So how would a bit of reshuffling of funds have affected US politics over the last decade? Chung View Details

16 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker

April 2017
Teaching Plan

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg

Teaching Note for HBS No. 115-038. View Details

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

July 1988
Article

Nutrition Policy: Building the Bridge between Science and Politics

By: James E. Austin and C. Overholt

Keywords: Nutrition; Policy; Science; Government and Politics

2015
Book

Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform

By: Meg Rithmire

Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and... View Details

Keywords: Property; China

June 2003
Article

Contested Currency: Russia's Ruble in Domestic and International Politics

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: Currency; Government and Politics; Russia

07 Oct 2013
News

Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

2021
Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire

How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details

Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China

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2021
Working Paper

The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement

By: Lauren Cohen and Bo Li

This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign... View Details

Keywords: Bribery; Regulatory Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Governance Controls; Political Elections

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July 2011
Teaching Note

Suntech Power (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for 712001. View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Information Technology; Business Subsidiaries; System; Competition; Renewable Energy; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Spain; United States; China; Japan

2010
Working Paper

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

By: David Moss

It has been said that deregulation was an important source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States