Government

About: Government is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 141043 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1991874 citations. The topic is also known as: gov.

Protection for Sale

Abstract: We develop a model in which special interest groups make political contributions in order to influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy. In the political equilibrium. the interest groups bid for protection, and each group's offer is optimal given the offers of the others. The politicians maximize their own welfare. which depends on the total amount of contributions collected and on the aggregate welfare of voters. We study the structure of protection that emerges in political equilibrium and the equilibrium contributions that are made by the different industry lobby groups. and show why these groups may in some cases prefer to have the government use trade policy to transfer income rather than more efficient means. We also discuss how our framework might be extended to include endogenous formation of lobby groups. political competition between incumbents and challengers. and political outcomes in a multicountry trading system.

Trust in Large Organizations

Abstract: Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries, evidence on government performance, participation in civic and professional societies, importance of large firms, and the performance of social institutions more generally supports this hypothesis. Moreover, trust is lower in countries with dominant hierarchical religions, which may have deterred networks of cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries.

Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective

Abstract: From the Publisher: This book presents the fundamentals of electronic commerce and its terminology, describing what it is and how it is being conducted and managed. It also focuses on the major opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks impacting the market place around the world as we enter the second millenium. Chapter topics include retailing, consumer behavior and market research, advertisement and publishing, services, intranet and extranet application, payments, corporate strategy, public policy, and infrastructure. For anyone interested in network and Internet transactions — especially managers and professional in any functional area of the business world, and people in government, education, and health services.

Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process

Abstract: often presented as the source of the risk assessment‒risk management framework and the inspiration for William Ruckelshaus’s policy of publicly separating science from policy in the agency— but that is a misreading of the report (North 2003) because it explicitly recommended distinguishing these things intellectually, and forced thinking about their interaction. But the single most important material consequence of the risk assessment/ risk management knowledge representation was the capacity that it granted to the administrators of the agency to design a joint decisionmaking process involving the various programmatic and functional offices of the agency, and assembling the expertise and specific conceptions of uncertainty of toxicologists, economists, and policy analysts. In other words, the framework supported a redesign and integration of the agency, in the form of a decisionmaking process that attended to the various dimensions of an environmental issue, and concerns of EPA’s audiences. All of this was evident in Alvin Alm’s decision to pursue the Toxics Integration effort of the late 1970s, the gradual acculturation to the knowledge representation borne by RAFG across the agency, the ensuring design of a sophisticated “options tracking system,” and the creation of multiple analytical guides and formats for application by all the agency staff.