When analysing social media conversations, in search of the public opinion about an unfolding event that is being discussed in real-time (e.g., presidential debates, major speeches, etc.), it is important to distinguish between two groups of participants: opinion-makers and opinion-holders. To address this problem, we propose a supervised machinelearning approach, which uses inexpensively acqui...

This thesis extends the literature on the role of state ownership by distinguishing the governance roles of two types of state-share holders in China’s listed companies. Government agencies that act as state-share holders (“GA shareholders”) are detrimental to firm value according to both the political and managerial perspectives. Non-government agencies such as SOEs and other forms of market-o...

We study the role of parties in a citizen-candidate repeated-elections model in which voters have incomplete information. We first identify a novel “party competition effect” in a setting with two opposing parties. Compared with “at large” selection of candidates, party selection makes office-holders more willing to avoid extreme ideological stands, and this benefits voters of all ideologies. W...

Large di erences in hourly compensation exist between the natives (urban hukou holders) and rural to urban migrants of the Chinese cities, a third of which cannot be explained by any variation in observable characteristics. This paper attempts to explain the di erences using a Tiebout-esque political economy model of migration in which rents are appropriated from the migrants by the rent-seekin...

the political approach of shaykh zāhid gīlānī paved the way for shaykh ṣafī al-dīn ardabīlī’s political thinking and his closeness to the power-holders of the time. in addition to acquiring the rules and manners of sufism, shaykh ṣafī al-dīn learned from his master the political approaches for expanding his sufi order, as well. these approaches turned into a political movement in the safavid or...

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With very few exceptions since Ancient Greece, architecture has ignored for most of its history, its relation to power and politics, focusing instead on different ideals of beauty, perfection and purity of forms. It is no surprise then that architecture was used for political purposes mainly by people who are not architects, like Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, N.A. Miliutyn, to name just a few. ...

Drawing upon the extended symbolic interactionist tradition, this paper examines management activities in context of office holders and teams. As researchers, if we wish to fully appreciate everyday life, then must pay particular attention teams, team creation teamwork, for it is through people doing things together that organizational life realized. Specifically, I examine relevance performanc...

We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard (hidden actions), in which neither voters nor politicians can commit to future choices. We prove existence of electoral equilibria, and we show that in response to electoral incentives, office holders mix between “taking it easy” and “going for broke” in the first period. Even in t...