………………………………………………………………………………2 2.1 The Principal-Agent-Theory 2 2.2 Application of Principal-Agent logics to Bureaucracies 3 2.3 Hypotheses 4 2.3.1 Efficiency 4 2.3.2 Depoliticization 5 2.3.3 Shifting responsibilities 6 2.3.4 Decreased likelihood of policy adoption 6 2.3.3 Control variables 6 3. Methods and data 7 3.1 Data 7 3.2. Operationalization of dependent variable 7 3.3 Operationalization of independent and control variables 8 3.4 Method 8 4. Analysis and results 9 4.1
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Competitive Strategies and Government Policies Brenda Ocampo‚ Eileen Pool‚ Bernardo Villegas‚ Roderick Phipps‚ & Mohammed Alodeh ECO 365 February 4‚ 2013 Gregory Czarnecki McDonald’s The fast food industry is a highly competitive environment. For a leading chain such as McDonalds they always need to be thinking ahead about the competition and how the economy affects their industry. Although McDonalds is one of the biggest fast food chains they have to be aware of new
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"National interest’ is the most important factor in the formation of any foreign policy. Evaluate this claim". ___________________________________________________________________ It would seem a self-evident claim that national interest must play a significant part‚ if not a central one‚ in the formation of any state’s foreign policy. This claim could be made because it would appear natural that the role of the state‚ in any situation‚ is primarily to further the interests of the society and
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Imperialism is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic‚ political‚ and military control over weaker territories. It’s important because it helped extend our territories over weaker territories. I think imperialism was a proper and legitimate policy‚ even though it led to some bad outcomes‚ there were more good outcomes. The three countries that I chose to write about are Cuba‚ Philippines‚ and Panama. In Panama‚ the Panamanians allowed the United States to rent the land needed
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Exim policy‚ 1985 and onwards Accordingly the export-import policies (Exim policy were announced by the government first in 1985 and then in 1988 for three year period. Again the exim policy was revised in 1990. All these policies made necessary for provision for extension of import liberalisation measures. All these policies made necessary provision for import of capital goods and raw materials for industrialisation of REP (Registered Exporters Policy) licenses‚ liberal import of
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The policies protectionism and paternalism had a major impact on the freedoms and rights of indigenous people. The major impact was the government controlling the aboriginal’s way of life. Protectionism meant that aboriginals were removed from contact with the white Australians‚ and they were required to live in reservations or in missions with restrictions on their movement and their way of life. The other policy paternalism was about white Europeans acting in a fatherly way to the indigenous people
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Evaluate three policies that might be used to increase LRAS In order for an increase to occur in LRAS a shift of the curve to the right must arise. For this shift of the LRAS to the right to take place an improvement in the quality of the factors of production or increase in the quantity of the factors of production. I will be evaluating three policies that might be used to increase LRAS through the increase in the quantity of the factors of production. The first policy that I will be evaluating
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arrangement local governments established prior to the consolidation; it is important to understand the pro and cons of city-county consolidation as well as the motivations that influence the need for consolidated governments. Although metropolitan government can be achieved in a number of ways‚ reformers have traditionally sought to capture the benefits of regional governance through the consolidation of a county and one or more city governments (Feiock and Carr‚ 2000‚ p224). The major policy arguments
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A US government requests court has rejected endeavors by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to stop mass accumulation of a large number of Americans’ telephone records. The second US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said on Thursday that Congress needed the National Security Agency (NSA) project to keep amid a six-month move period in the witness of another law produces results. "An unexpected end to the project would be in opposition to the general population enthusiasm for viable
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Classification: D53‚ G10‚ G14 I. INTRODUCTION Dividend is the result of a discretionary decision made by the board of directors of a firm. Generally‚ a firm announces dividend on the profit. Corporate dividend policy is one of the most enduring issues in modern corporate finance. Dividend policy determines the division of earnings between payments to stockholders and reinvestment in the firm (Weston‚ Copeland & Shatri: 2004). Miller and Modigliani (1961) have given a theory * Faculty Member‚ Tribhuvan
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