Over time the international development community has advocated various development paradigms, but countries following these paradigms have often performed poorly. I provide an explanation for this poor performance. In my model the political leader of a developing country chooses a policy and whether to implement it in an honest or corrupt manner. These choices affect domestic production and ai...

Emotions affect politics. So does strategic behavior. But studies of how emotions affect politics tend not to account for strategic behavior -and vice versa. Such practices limit our understanding of emotions’ political relevance. We pursue a constructive integration. Using a formal model, we identify conditions under which a strategic political leader will use fear to induce citizens to suppor...

California is a leader among states in its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32), the state has set itself on a course to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. In addition to its cap-and-trade program, California aims to accomplish this objective via a large assortment of complementary...

which insight into the condition is totally absent, is far more dangerous than the examples of anaemia, heart failure, or gall-bladder disease that are considered here. It is a consideration to bear in mind in reading the final chapter in which Park discusses the implications for the future. His conclusions are not comforting. Now, it is true, constant exposure by the media, especially televisi...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

Youth leadership today is one of the most relevant and widely discussed topics both at level state public administration society. At same time, youth political leaders become full subjects policy. The article attempts to comprehend conceptualize concept taking into account evolution socio-humanitarian science current field. theoretical basis for this developments in field leadership. study scie...

In this study, the political relations between Atatürk Era, Turkish Grand National Assembly and Azerbaijan are analyzed. After collapse of Ottoman Empire in 1918, was established under leadership Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk. Historical developments Turkey historical importance study period brother country discussed depth. Soviet leader Neriman Nerimanov’s rational logical real poli...

From its inception as a distinct discipline devoted to the scientific study of how people influence and are influenced by others, social psychologists have explored the nature of leadership. After noting the origins of leadership research in the work of such early theorists as Le Bon, Freud, and Lewin, we discuss the four key themes addressed in this volume: (1) the characteristics of the leade...

ABSTRACT Experts agree that vaccination is the most effective way to bring COVID-19 pandemic under control. Nevertheless, rates have slowed nationwide and substantial segments of population report an unwillingness get vaccinated. We conducted online survey experiment investigate whether endorsement messages from various types leaders can encourage unvaccinated receive vaccine. surveyed 709 regi...

How do political parties shape state capacity? We argue that democratic leaders backed by personalist are more likely than other to undermine impartial administration. Personalist those where the leader has control over party senior elites. Elites in these have careers closely tied leader, unlikely normatively value an impersonal bureaucracy, and lack collective action capacity independent from...