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Mobility and Policy Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 by Cepaluni, Gabriel, Dorsch, Michael T., Kovarek, Daniel

“…Objective: This paper quantitatively explores determinants of governments’ non-pharmaceutical policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our focus is on the…”
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Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities: The Case of Randomized Controlled Trials by Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina, Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…This paper provides a political-economic analysis of policy evaluation. We focus on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a subset of policy evaluations and…”
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Economic downturns, inequality, and democratic improvements by Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…This paper explores the extent to which discrete improvements in the democratic quality of political institutions can be explained by income inequality…”
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Rent extraction, revolutionary threat, and coups in non-democracies by Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…•Political turnovers in non-democracies typically replace one autocrat for another.•Autocrats are politically constrained by the elite and by the…”
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The politics of experimentation: Political competition and randomized controlled trials by Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina, Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…•Political economy theoretical analysis of the incidence of RCTs.•Panel data analysis on unique meta RCT data, cross-national and sub-national in Indian…”
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What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments by Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina, Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

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Economic Development and Determinants of Environmental Concern by Dorsch, Michael T.

“…Objectives. This article examines the extent to which individual-level determinants of environmental concern in underdeveloped economies differ from those in…”
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Inefficient predation and political transitions by Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…This paper presents a theory of endogenous economic institutions in non-democracies, where political accountability is enforced through the threat of…”
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Income Taxation and the Diversity of Consumer Goods: A Political Economy Approach by Bourlès, Renaud, Dorsch, Michael T., Maarek, Paul

“…After‐tax income inequality has risen since the mid‐1990s, as increases in market income inequality have not been offset by greater fiscal redistribution. We…”
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Development and inefficient regulation under the threat of revolution by Dorsch, Michael T., Dunz, Karl, Maarek, Paul

“…•We model the policy choice of a rent-seeking elite in a game of incomplete information.•We demonstrate why the elite may choose to extract rent via…”
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Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies by Dorsch, Michael T., Dunz, Karl, Maarek, Paul

“…This paper presents a theory of political instability in autocracies where the disenfranchised express their political preferences for a leadership replacement…”
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Democratic Accountability, Regulation and Inward Investment Policy by Dorsch, Michael T., McCann, Fergal, McGuirk, Eoin F.

“…We examine the effect of domestic political accountability on leaders' strategies for attracting foreign direct investment to less developed countries. We…”
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Fiscal federalism, social mobility, and poverty alleviation: Essays in political economy by Dorsch, Michael T

“…This collection of essays considers the social choice of publicly-financed goods. Each essay analyzes how individuals trade off the benefits of public…”
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Fiscal federalism, social mobility, and poverty alleviation: Essays in political economy by Dorsch, Michael T

“…This collection of essays considers the social choice of publicly-financed goods. Each essay analyzes how individuals trade off the benefits of public…”
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