Democracy and Public Sector Efficiency: An Empirical Study on the Cross-National Data

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Gao
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
National Data ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Public Sector Efficiency ◽  
Cross National

Income Distribution within Nations

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
VINCENT A. MAHLER
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Population Coverage ◽  
National Data ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Distribution Of Income ◽  
Cross National

In recent years a large number of cross-national studies have examined the causes and consequences of income inequality within nations. Unfortunately, few of these studies have attended very carefully to problems of measurement and definitional consistency that can seriously undermine the comparative use of currently available data on income shares. This article offers a discussion of the major theoretical and practical problems that can arise in measuring and comparing patterns of income distribution across nations, focusing on the completeness of income coverage, the unit of analysis, the time period over which income is measured, the scope of population coverage, the underreporting of income, and the effect of public sector fiscal policies. It then assesses major published sources of cross-national data on the size distribution of income in light of these problems. Finally, the article offers several suggestions for minimizing the negative consequences of measurement problems that remain in even the best available data on income shares.

How do Political Institutions Affect Corruption?

Corruption ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Fisman ◽  
Miriam A. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
National Data ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Per Capita Gdp ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross National

In chapter 3, we saw that corruption is far more pervasive in poor nations than in rich ones. That is, per capita GDP offers a huge amount of information about corruption: the cross-national data that we studied there suggests that you can explain about 60...

Sounds without borders: Exploring the cross-national expansion of commercial European Radio Groups

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110121
Author(s):  
Montse Bonet ◽  
David Fernández-Quijada
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
National Market ◽  
The Cross ◽  
National Champions ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Expansion Strategies

This article aims to study how private European radio is becoming commercially international through the expansion of radio brands beyond their national market. It is the first ever analysis of the expansion strategies of radio groups across Europe, including their footprint in each market in which they operate, from the political economy of cultural industries. The article maps the main radio groups in Europe, analyses cross-national champions in depth and establishes three main types. This study shows that, thanks to the possibilities of a deregulated market, strengthening the role of the brand and the format, and the agreements with other groups, broadcasting radio has overcome the obstacles that, historically, hindered its cross-border expansion.

scholarly journals Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey: Pitfalls and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Brzozowska ◽  
Eva Beaujouan
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
Fertility Intention ◽  
National Data ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Questionnaire Adaptation ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThe use of fertility intention questions to study individual childbearing behaviour has developed rapidly in recent decades. In Europe, the Generations and Gender Surveys are the main sources of cross-national data on fertility intentions and their realisation. This study investigates how an inconsistent implementation of a question about wanting a child now affects the cross-country comparability of intentions to have a child within the next three years and their realisation. We conduct our analysis separately for women and men at prime and late reproductive ages in Austria, France, Italy and Poland. The results show that the overall share of respondents intending to have a child at some point in their life is similar in all four analysed countries. However, once the time horizon and the degree of certainty of fertility intentions are included, substantial cross-country differences appear, particularly in terms of proceptive behaviour and, consequently, the realisation of fertility intentions. We conclude that the inconsistent questionnaire adaptation makes it very difficult to assess the role of country context in the realisation of childbearing intentions.

Public-Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaela Giordano ◽  
Pietro Tommasino
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Public Sector Efficiency
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