The concept of a ‘just transition’ encompasses political and policy imperatives to minimize the harmful impacts industrial economic transitions on workers, communities, society more generally, maximize their potential benefits. This imperative has gained heightened importance as governments commit reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A wide range policies, strategies initiatives have been adopted...

Is government ideology important for fiscal policy? I study this question with data from all German States over the period 1975-2005. To identify the effect of ideology, I rely on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find that left-wing state governments spend more than state governments with right-wing and mixed ideology. Deficits of left-wing governments are larger than those of right-w...

The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged governments worldwide and approaches to combating the spread maintaining livelihoods have ranged significantly. purpose study is a) investigate whether social media, specifically Twitter, can be used identify topics discussion regarding governments’ COVID-19 policies, and; b) those discussions interpreted in a way that s...

Financial sanctions, alongside economic are components of the toolkit used by governments as part international diplomacy. The use especially financial, has increased over last 70 years. sanctions have been particularly important whenever goals sanctioning countries were related to democracy and human rights. restrict entities—countries, businesses, or even individuals—from purchasing selling f...

This study examines the relationship between types of government and level of public spending. There are two competing perspectives about the consequences of coalition governments for the size of public expenditures. The most common argument is that government spending increases under coalition governments, compared with one-party governments. Another line of thought contends that coalition gov...

In this article, the authors develop a political market framework to explain the circumstances under which Florida counties will supply environmental public goods in the form of conservation amendments to county general plans. The framework emphasizes the role of local legislative and executive institutions as mediators of local policy change. Using count models and interaction terms, the analy...