The phenomenon of crony capitalism has been explored primarily with reference to its impact on economic growth. This study investigates the political implications of crony capitalism and, specifically, the interaction between political competition and crony capitalism. Based on a case study of political trajectories in two regions of the Russian Federation, I argue that under crony capitalism p...

People decide on political issues using judgmental shortcuts called heuristics. What are the origins of these political heuristics? Traditionally, heuristics have been viewed as learned from the structure of elite debates. This article outlines a different view: that many political heuristics are evolved, biological adaptations that helped our ancestors deal with political problems in small-sca...

Although firms use various strategies to try to influence government policy, with lobbying and corruption chiefly among them, and political institutions play an important role in determining policy choices, very little research has been devoted to these topics. This paper tries to fill this gap. Using cross-country enterprise-level data, it investigates (1) the effect of a key political institu...

European Political Science Review / Volume 5 / Issue 03 / November 2013, pp 431 455 DOI: 10.1017/S1755773912000197, Published online: 02 October 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1755773912000197 How to cite this article: Sabina Avdagic (2013). Partisanship, political constraints, and employment protection reforms in an era of austerity. European Political Scien...

an essential issue from the very outset of the field of public administration was to find proper limits of bureaucrats authorities in a democratic state .contemporary research on the issue lead to emergent of two set of theories. the first is theories of political control of bureaucracy and the second is theories of bureaucratic politics. the research is against theoretical efforts and is consi...

nowadays information and communication technology(ict) function as a powerful tool influencing human affairs including social, economical, cultural and political issues. countries which invoke these technology are seriously developing much faster from those which make weaker steps. in this sense, it is useful to make comparison between the available statistics in iran with those of other countr...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...