In recent years, political donations have increased, and their rationality has been questioned accordingly. This paper examines the donation controversy from perspective of relationship between democracy capitalism, summarizes structural contradictions whether should be allowed to arise democracy. To resolve this contradiction, capitalism must completely separated. As a result, contributions ba...

While existing work has demonstrated that campaign donations can buy access to benefits such as favorable legislation and preferential contracting, we highlight another use of contributions: buying forbearance. Specifically, argue in return for contributions, Colombian mayors who rely on donor-funding (compared those do not) choose not enforce sanctions against illegal deforestation activities....

Executive Summary The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and Google partnered in early 2007 to estimate how much of the charitable giving by households in the U.S. focuses on the needs of the poor. This analysis finds that less than one-third of the money individuals gave to nonprofits in 2005 was focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. Of the $250 billion in donations...

Charities provide public benefits that are difficult to measure and often unverifiable for the donors, creating a one-sided information deficit. To diminish this information asymmetry, watchdog organizations provide donors with ratings of charities based on each charity’s financial performance. The information can increase donor awareness of individual charity performance and provide a metric o...

Results The HIV seroprevalence was estimated to be 1.37/1000 donations with 3 generation and 3.62/1000 donations with 4 generation ELISA (p>0.05). Of the 17 samples which were 4 generation ELISA positive and WB positive, 11 were positive with 3 generation ELISA. Fourth generation ELISA tested 19 additional samples positive and 7 samples as possibly positive which were tested negative with 3 gen...

Analysis of the bonding contributions in molecules [MIIICp*(L)XY] (M = Rh, Ir; Cp* C5Me5; L CO, CN–, CNR) has uncovered a rich variety types interaction that seem to have escaped detection so far, spite continuous popularity cyclopentadienyl transition-metal complexes since 1970s. At variance with M—C≡O bond square-planar systems, which shows typical metal-to-CO π-back-donation, nonorthogonal a...

The Internet plays a pivotal role in accommodating and often shaping communication to fit changing economic and socially hectic circumstances in our lives (Das & Sahoo, 2012). In the present study we examine the effect of online social networks on voluntary engagement, giving behavior and online money contributions. We seek to test whether the internet and social media are effective platforms f...