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State (polity)
About: State (polity) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 36954 publications have been published within this topic receiving 719822 citations. The topic is also known as: state (polity).
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the behavior of workers' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and found that countercyclicality of receipts is not commonly observed across these countries.
Abstract: Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries since migrant workers are expected to remit more during down cycles of economic activity back home. Yet, how much to remit is a complex decision involving other factors, and different variables driving remittance behavior are differently affected by the state of economic activity over the business cycle. This paper investigates the behavior of workers' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that countercyclicality of receipts is not commonly observed across these countries.
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TL;DR: The authors showed that both political and economic effects were important determinants of grant allocation during the New Deal period and that the importance of all the political variables is dramatically affected by the inclusion or exclusion of Nevada.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The Familial State as discussed by the authors studies the rise and fall of Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with France and England as comparative and contending cases, and argues that patrimonial state formation cannot be understood without an examination of the ways in which elite family heads reproduce and regulate the structure of rule.
Abstract: Julia Adams’ The Familial State studies the rise and fall of Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with France and England as comparative and contending cases. Adams argues that patrimonial state formation cannot be understood without an examination of the ways in which elite family heads reproduce and regulate the structure of rule. In the process, she revises state theory, putting gender squarely at the center of state formation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of economic conditions, culture and ideology, electoral politics, governmental institutions and prior public policies, and the role of business, labor, and women's voluntary groups on the priority of state enactments was investigated.
Abstract: M \/ f the United States. Contrary to established wisdom in political science, their enabling statutes spread very quickly across most states in the 1910s, with smaller, nonindustrial states often in the vanguard. Previous research concerning the predictors of state-level policy innovations has focused on a small subset of possible explanatory variables, typically economic or electoral conditions. We operationalize and test hypotheses about the influence of economic conditions, culture and ideology, electoral politics, governmental institutions and prior public policies, and the role of business, labor, and women's voluntary groups on the priority of state enactments. Our findings indicate that widespread federations of women's voluntary groups exerted a powerful influence on mothers' pension enactments even before most American women had the right to vote. We demonstrate the value to empirical political science of theories and variables referring to gender and women's politics.
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TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that Chinese NGOs are often more interested in building alliances with state agencies and actors than in autonomy from the government, and proposed a third way: an approach based on organizational analysis.
Abstract: In the last two decades, the People's Republic of China has witnessed an explosion of NGOs. What will the implications be for state–society relations? This article, drawing upon research conducted at seven Chinese NGOs, critiques two approaches to analysing this problem: the civil society framework and the privatization perspective. It then proffers a third way: an approach based on organizational analysis. Both the civil society and privatization perspectives assume a zero-sum game between a monolithic state and NGOs/citizens. Yet empirical evidence reveals that Chinese NGOs are often much more interested in building alliances with state agencies and actors than in autonomy from the government. From an organizational perspective, this makes sense. As organizations, both NGOs and state agencies need to ensure a constant supply of necessary resources for the firm to survive, and their strategies for achieving this goal will be constrained by their actors' own institutional experiences and the cultural fram...
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