منابع مشابه
Redistribution, Pork and Elections∗
Why might citizens vote against redistributive policies from which they would seem to benefit? Many scholars focus on “wedge” issues such as religion or race, but another explanation might be geographically-based patronage or pork. We examine the tension between redistribution and patronage with a model that combines partisan elections across multiple districts with legislation in spatial and d...
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Three parasites pose a public health risk from the ingestion of raw or undercooked pork, namely: Trichinella spiralis, Taenia solium and Toxoplasma gondii. Inspection procedures, when practised according to prescribed methods, are effective in eliminating the majority of risks from T. spiralis and T. solium. No suitable methods for the post-slaughter detection of T. gondii are available. All th...
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The animal health hazards associated with the importation of pork and pork products include four viral agents: foot and mouth disease, classical swine fever (hog cholera), African swine fever, and swine vesicular disease viruses. The safety of importing pork from a zone infected with one or more of these diseases can be adequately determined only through risk assessment. This also applies for t...
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Over the past 20 years, electoral administrators have readily adopted two main types of technology into the electoral process: database systems (to support voter registration systems) and geographical information systems (GIS, for re-districting and logistics planning). It should be noted that, while they have brought great benefits in efficiency and effectiveness to the electoral process, thes...
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1 The electoral consequences of the change in federal grant spending per capita. These six models replicate the results from Tables 1-4 in the manuscript using the change in per capita grant spending in a county as the independent variable of interest, instead of the percentage change in grant spending in the county. The results are substantively identical to those presented in the manuscript. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1468143