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The Spoils of Victory: Campaign Donations and Government Contracts in Brazil
Published 2015“…Using data from Brazil, we employ a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of an electoral victory on government contracts for a candidate’s corporate donors. …”
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Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
Published 2015“…However, it is also the case that, in terms of the outcomes of the 2000 and 2004 elections at the national level, Republicans were victorious. Research also suggests that, in the 2004 election, voters who cast a paper ballot are more confident relative to those who vote using an electronic device. …”
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Voter Confidence in Context and the Effect of Winning
Published 2015“…However, it is also the case that in terms of the national outcomes of the 2000 and 2004 elections, Republicans were victorious. Additionally, research suggests that in the 2004 election voters who cast a paper ballot are more confident relative to those who vote using an electronic device. …”
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Running Alone- And Together: Presidential Leadership In A Divided System
Published 2010“…Dwight Eisenhower had done it again. His first victory, in 1952, had been understandable—memories of his military leadership in World War II were still fresh. …”
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Bundling Health Insurance and Microfinance in India: There Cannot be Adverse Selection if There Is No Demand
Published 2015“…Bundling loans with insurance led to a 16 percentage points (23 percent) increase in drop-out from microfinance, as many clients preferred to give up microfinance than pay higher interest rates and receive insurance. In a Pyrrhic victory, the total absence of demand for health insurance led to there being no adverse selection in insurance enrollment.…”
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Venture Communist: Gu Zhun in Shanghai, 1949-1952
Published 2015“…When the Communists took Shanghai in 1949, they brought seasoned soldiers, but scarcely an accountant. The victory that they claimed in the city presented both resources and temptations, including riches to fund a fledgling regime but also the taint of capitalism. …”
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Model-based Story Summary
Published 2015“…Experiments with a summarizer, built on the Genesis story understanding system, demonstrate considerable compression of an 85-element precis of the plot of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, reducing it, for example, to the 14 elements that make it a concise summary about Pyrrhic victory. Refocusing the summarizer on regicide reduces the element count to 7, or 8% of the original.…”
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The state question in Chinese popular cultural studies
Published 2017“…Ironical references in Western press to Chinese 'consumer revolution7 and 'pop cultural revolution, made a parade of global capitalism's victory. Indisputably, vast social, cultural, and economic transformations have swept over China since 1992 when Deng Xiaoping gave his strategic Southern Excursion Talks to salvage a market reform mired in a bottleneck phase. …”
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The Iceberg and the Titanic: Electoral Defeat, Policy Moods, and Party Change
Published 2010“…Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory and Conservative defeat in the 2001 British general election. …”
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Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem
Published 2015“…During the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida, the ballots submitted by individuals living overseas—especially military voters—were seen as crucial to the election outcome as the margin of potential victory was so small that these ballots could turn the election from one candidate to the other. …”
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