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Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements

By: Miguel García-Sánchez, Aila M. Matanock and Natalia Garbiras-Díaz
To what extent are legislators, responsible for the implementation of many peace agreements, responsive to citizens’ preferences? Examining the 2016 Colombian peace agreement, we embed an experiment in the 2019 wave of a survey of all the members of Congress. We inform... View Details
Keywords: Legislation; Legislators; Peace Process; Agreements; Govenment; Voters' Interests; Governance; Government and Politics; Voting; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Latin America; Colombia
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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

In the Driver's Seat

“crazy.” Hitchcock has hired a former NASCAR crew chief to be Fanz's spokesman, and he intends to seek out the best available personnel for crews and drivers. Among other perks of ownership, the stockholders will be able to vote on whom... View Details

    Henry S. Dennison

    were issued preferred (non-voting) stock, and working managers controlled voting stock. From 1917 to 1951, Dennison Manufacturing’s sales increased from $3.5 million to over $37 million. View Details
    Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Patrick Moreton

    bipartisan furor ensued. The House has voted to overturn some of the agency’s decision. What’s going on? Until June 2, FCC rules decreed that no television network could own local stations that, in aggregate, reached more than 35 percent... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
    • 01 Sep 2012
    • News

    Moving Day 2012

    capacity to love,” Sternlight urged his classmates. “Figure out your purpose and pursue it with everything you have.” Another highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of faculty teaching awards, as voted by the Class of 2012.... View Details
    Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 07 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7

    in the capital structure of bankrupt firms according to their institutional type and track them from the initial filing until the vote on the plan of reorganization. We document several novel facts about the role of different... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

    Academy for Women, Linda shows how academics can play a leading role in translating theory into practice. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53183 forthcoming Econometrica Expressive Voting and Its Cost:... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18, 2008

    company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 May 2019
    • News

    A More Perfect Union

    As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
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    Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary

    By: Laura Jakli, Béla Greskovits and Jason Wittenberg
    Using an original dataset of partisan protest events in Hungary (n = 4836) spanning 1989 to 2011, we argue that left-liberal parties’ neglect in cultivating civil society during the post-communist period had deleterious downstream effects on Hungarian liberal... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Civil Society or Community; Government Administration; Hungary
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    • 02 Mar 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

    increased for consumers, and there were more jobs lost in those sectors suffering from higher steel prices than steel jobs created. After Trump’s announcement, the Dow Jones industrial average greeted the news with a drop of more than 1.5 percent. The stock marketthus... View Details
    Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
    • 03 Mar 2016
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

    enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 20 May 2008
    • News

    Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot

    Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Web

    Hacking AI with HBS IT | Information Technology

    then voted for their favorites. The final presentations varied and included processes to analyze Outlook calendars and populate timecards, tools that will accurately summarize meeting notes and keep track of action items, and a tool to... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
    We study a propaganda campaign sponsored by the government against the main political challenger in the days preceding the 2015 Argentine runoff presidential election. Subjects in the treatment group watched an “ad” initially aired during soccer transmissions that was... View Details
    Keywords: Propaganda; Persuasion; Voting; Political Elections; Government and Politics; Communication Strategy; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; Argentina
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    • 06 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 6

    Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 14 Jun 2024
    • News

    Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

    leaders. Events concluded with a vote on the incoming Board class of 23 alumni leaders and the announcement of the new Board President, Paula Madoff (MBA 1994), and new Vice Presidents, Jan Gullett (MBA 1977), Kerin Maganzini Hempel (MBA... View Details
    • 11 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46651 The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms' and Their Analysts' Research Activities By: Maber, David A., Boris Groysberg, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—In traditional markets, the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of U.S. Elections

    By: Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons and Jesse M. Shapiro
    Many observers have forecast large partisan shifts in the US electorate based on demographic trends. Such forecasts are appealing because demographic trends are often predictable even over long horizons. We backtest demographic forecasts using data on US elections... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Voting; Political Elections; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Demographics
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    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

    cast votes in public referenda. 13 By the early 1970s, with organizations like the RAND Corporation, The Brookings Institution, and the Sloan Commission all calling for more supportive regulation of cable, pressure for change was... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation