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Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The influence of Political Factors in policymakers' perceptions on the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies for citizen participation and knowledge sharing in public sector delivery
Information Polity, 2015Co-Authors: Manuel Pedro Rodríguez BolívarAbstract:Public administration is being pressured for innovation, driving service delivery towards a more personalized, outcome-driven, participative, efficient and collaborative model. In this regard, Web 2.0 technologies are potential powerful tools for supporting public engagement, intended to improve public services and to establish relationships between government and citizens based on information sharing and dialogue. This paper seeks to analyse the influence that Political variables could have in the perception of policymakers regarding the use of Web 2.0 technologies for user participation, for knowledge sharing, and for technological innovation in public service delivery. Findings indicate that policymakers are prone to using Web 2.0 technologies to improve internal productivity of local governments and the engagement of citizens in the process of public services' delivery, but with the aim of making suggestions through consultations. In addition, Political Factors such as ideology, Political competition or Political stability could influence the perception of policymakers regarding the use of Web 2.0 technologies for citizen participation and knowledge sharing in public sector delivery.
Chih-yung Lin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do Political Factors affect stock returns during presidential elections
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017Co-Authors: Chung-hua Shen, Dien Giau Bui, Chih-yung LinAbstract:Abstract This study investigates whether or not Political Factors such as government policy and Political connections affected stock returns during the 2008 Taiwanese presidential election. We find that firms that benefitted from (were threatened by) the proposed Three-Links policy of the winning party experienced positive (negative) stock returns during the election. We use the sensitivities of firms’ returns to bilateral trade flows between Taiwan and China to measure the government-policy effect. Our results show that the effects of Political connections weakly exist, but they become more significant when the support ratio of the winning party increased in polling data. We also find that only the government-policy effect holds for different crash-risk and corporate-governance levels. Finally, investment strategies based on both Political Factors can generate positive abnormal returns with respect to the Fama-French Three-factor Model.
Jadranka Svarc - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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socio Political Factors and the failure of innovation policy in croatia as a country in transition
Research Policy, 2006Co-Authors: Jadranka SvarcAbstract:Abstract This paper discusses the roles of socio-Political Factors and related public policies in the economic growth of Croatia, as well as their influence on its transition to a knowledge economy (KE). The Croatian experience might help to understand transition processes in other Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). This paper argues that Croatia has failed to capitalize on its inherited science base, which could have been used as a starting point in the transition towards a KE, because it has not made the shift from an obsolete socialist-style science policy to a modern innovation policy (IP); the latter is seen as the new policy paradigm necessary for structural adjustment to a KE. Covert socio-Political growth Factors shaped by the country-specific historical heritage of Croatia have prevented the recognition of the need for structural adjustment to the new technology regime, and have led to the belief that the IP is not only irrelevant but is also a relict of the state interventionism inherited from socialism, which was the most serious obstacle to policy reform. Examples drawn from the development of the IP and the National System of Innovation (NSI) in Croatia, which shares the socialist model of science policy and the socio-Political context of the transition towards a market economy with other CEECs, can help to explain the failure of the IP. In the Croatian case, the decisive Factors were the social state of so-called “semi-modernism” and the governance of the so-called “de-industrializing elite”. This paper concludes that the transition of a CEEC from a market economy to a KE requires a serious re-design of development policy, the effectiveness of which depends on social change determined by the Political recognition and social assimilation of the new technological regime. In this sense, the current paper contributes to the understanding of the roles of social capital and governance in the economic growth of post-socialist countries.
James Plumb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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endgame for polio eradication options for overcoming social and Political Factors in the progress to eradicating polio
Global Public Health, 2015Co-Authors: Pavan V Ganapathiraju, Christiaan B Morssink, James PlumbAbstract:In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched with the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000. After 25 years, several dynamics still challenge this large public health campaign with new cases of polio being reported annually. We examine the roots of this initiative to eradicate polio, its scope, the successes and setbacks during the last 25 years and reflect on the current state of affairs. We examine the social and Political Factors that are barriers to polio eradication. Options are discussed for solving the current impasse of polio eradication: using force, respecting individual freedoms and gaining support from those vulnerable to fundamentalist ‘propaganda’. The travails of the GPEI indicate the need for expanding the Convention on the Rights of the Child to address situations of war and civic strife. Such a cultural and structural reference will provide the basis for global stakeholders to engage belligerent local actors whose local Political conflicts are barriers to the...
Chung-hua Shen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do Political Factors affect stock returns during presidential elections
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017Co-Authors: Chung-hua Shen, Dien Giau Bui, Chih-yung LinAbstract:Abstract This study investigates whether or not Political Factors such as government policy and Political connections affected stock returns during the 2008 Taiwanese presidential election. We find that firms that benefitted from (were threatened by) the proposed Three-Links policy of the winning party experienced positive (negative) stock returns during the election. We use the sensitivities of firms’ returns to bilateral trade flows between Taiwan and China to measure the government-policy effect. Our results show that the effects of Political connections weakly exist, but they become more significant when the support ratio of the winning party increased in polling data. We also find that only the government-policy effect holds for different crash-risk and corporate-governance levels. Finally, investment strategies based on both Political Factors can generate positive abnormal returns with respect to the Fama-French Three-factor Model.
