politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2023
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Political Strategies for Climate and Environmental Solutions

By: Jonas Meckling and Valerie Karplus

Many of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. We argue that politics should not be seen only as a constraint but be recognized as a target of intervention to advance environmental solutions. We use the... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Management; Government and Politics; Problems and Challenges

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Apr 2021
Conference Presentation

Political Homophily and Acrophily

By: Amit Goldenberg and J. J. Gross

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Compassion, Religion, and Politics

By: Arthur C. Brooks

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09 Feb 2017

All Hail Partisan Politics

13 Oct 2015
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How Thin Political Markets Undermine Democracy

06 Sep 2012
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Why Boring Political Conventions Are Better

01 Mar 2015
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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 and Zhang posit that if Mitt Romney (MBA 1974, JD 1975)... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

2023
Working Paper

The Politics of Philanthropy in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu

This working paper looks historically at business philanthropy in China. In the West, the literature has distinguished between entrepreneurial and customary philanthropy, while the phenomenon of spiritual philanthropy has been identified in many emerging markets. This... View Details

Keywords: China; Philanthropy; Ethics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Economic Systems; Economic Sectors; China

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09 Feb 2017
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All hail partisan politics

19 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Capitalism

Keywords: by Bruce R. Scott

11 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Keywords: by Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

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The Politics of Food

By: Gunnar Trumbull

This project explores the origins and evolution of national food cultures, emphasizing the sources of variation in terms of quality, safety, and 'sophistication'. Comparing food cultures in postwar Italy, France, and America, I argue that distinctive national... View Details

November 2022
Background Note

Regimes of Political Economy

By: Rawi Abdelal and Sophus A. Reinert

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Apr 2014
Lecture

Gilded Age Political Economy

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

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16 Jan 2008
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The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker

June 1987
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Aircraft Industry's Political Profile

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry

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11 Aug 2014
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Politics and Dirty Data

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 back-scratching is known as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding