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Privatization, Institutions and Performance: Telecommunications in Africa: by Roger Noll and Mary Shirley; Nearly all of Sub–Saharan Africa is extremely poor. While a few countries in Asia, Latin America and Oceania are comparably poor, no other region has as many poor people and undeveloped countries....; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: June 2002 More

Tuned Out Voters? Media Impact on Campaign Learning: by Norris, Pippa; What are the consequences of the rise of mediated or indirect channels linking parties and the electorate in modern and post–modern campaigns? Critics commonly blame the mass media (and...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: May 2002 More

Accountability and Political Competition: Theory and Evidence: by Tim Besley and Ian Preston; One of the central issues in political economy concerns how to create a form of government that responds to voters needs. The preconditions for achieving this are widely debated. Recent interest has...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Does Democracy Engender Equality?: by John E. Roemer; Many suppose that democracy is an ethos which requires, inter alia, a degree of economic equality among citizens. In contrast, we conceive of democracy as ruthless electoral competition between...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina: by Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi; Public policies are the outcomes of complex intertemporal exchanges among politicians. The political institutions of a country constitute the framework within which these transactions are...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Triangular Human Capital Flows between Sending, Entrepot and the Rest of the World Destinations: Lessons from Canada and Germany: by Don J. DeVoretz; We argue that their exist three initial sending regions, India, China, and Hong–Kong (SAR) and two possible receiving regions, an entrepot destination (Canada–Europe) and the ROW (USA). The home...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 2002 More

Comparative Perspectives on Immigrants in New York -- Across Time and Space: by Nancy Foner; This paper is a comparison across time of the two great waves of immigration to New York City in the last hundred years: the first wave, between 1880 and 1920, brought hundreds of thousands of...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 2002 More

What Does the European Union Do?: by Alesina, Alberto; We construct a set of indicators to measure the policy–making role of the European Union (European Council, Parliament, Commission, Court of Justice, etc.), in a selected number of policy domains....; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: December 2001 More

Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?: by Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward; Sacerdote, Bruce; European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre–tax...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2001 More

Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD Countries: by Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser; A straightforward extension of the standard Stigler–Peltzman model of regulation, coupled with the Taagepera–Shugart analysis of electoral–system effects, suggests: (a) that the greater the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2001 More