We explore the quality of political representation of constituents’ preferences for budgetary decisions within a quasi-experimental setting. In the Swiss referendum process, constituents reveal their preferences for budgetary proposals which are either expected to increase or decrease public debts. We match individual politicians’ voting behavior on debt increasing and debt reducing legislative...

The most important implementation of e-voting in Argentina so far took place in the province of Salta, in the north of the country on the border with Bolivia. With an electoral roll of 850,000 voters that is ethnically diverse and a complex electoral geography due to a high percentage of mountainous area, its implementation is very valuable for a comparative analysis. The gradual implementation...

The aims of this paper were to clarify the nature and purpose of qualitative research and to suggest specific guidelines for reporting the results of qualitative studies. Confusion about the purpose of qualitative research and the absence of a standardized format for reporting such research make it difficult to assess the validity of qualitative studies. Four general purposes of qualitative res...

Post 1991 economic reforms initiatives in India, regulatory reforms have been pursued in infrastructure industries. Both the electricity and telecom industries have been opened up for private sector, but there has been little success in attracting private capital into electricity supply chain compared to increased capital investments and competition in telecommunications. This paper would exami...

This study examined qualitative research on adolescent pregnancy to determine designs and methods used and to discover emergent themes across studies. Most of the 22 studies reviewed were described as qualitative or phenomenological by design and included samples comprising either African-American and Caucasian participants or African-Americans exclusively. Based on analysis of the collective p...

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The article presents the results of a study of the current state of higher IT education system in Ukraine. The problems of reforming higher IT education system of Ukraine in accordance with the commitments made by Ukraine in connection with the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Agreement Law of Ukraine No 1678-VII of September 16, 2014. An indicator of the presence or absence of a real reform of t...

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