Entrepreneurs Establishing Political Connection

Establishing Political Deliberation Systems: Key Problems

The extension and transformation of political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies. The most commonly found examples of these eParticipation systems are political discussion forums. Though much of the discussion of these technologies is conducted in the eGovernment and (particularly) the eDemocracy literature, political di...

Mixing Business with Politics: Political Participation by Entrepreneurs in China

We study how Chinese private entrepreneurs benefit from participating in politics. Using original hand-collected data on listed firms controlled by private entrepreneurs, we document a significant positive relationship between political participation and change in firm performance. We also provide evidence that the change in social status cannot explain the change in performance. We then identi...

Establishing the Connection between Peanut-shaped Bulges and Galactic Bars

It has been suggested that the peanut-shaped bulges seen in some edge-on disk galaxies are due to the presence of a central bar. Although bars cannot be detected photometrically in edge-on galaxies, we show that barred potentials produce a strong kinematic signature in the form of double-peaked line-of-sight velocity distributions with a characteristic “figure-ofeight” variation with radius. We...

Establishing the Connection Between Software Traceability and Data Provenance

Researchers and practitioners alike agree that software traceability is important to software development. Despite its recognized utility, software traceability has largely been infeasible in practice due to the high costs involved and the low benefits obtained. In the first part of this survey, we identify the difficulties that hinder end-to-end software traceability, and we analyze these diff...

The Political Transaction Costs and Uncertainties of Establishing Environmental Rights