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Paolo Sylos Labini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • se il psi va al governo un documento serio if the Socialist Party goes to power a serious document
    Social Science Research Network, 2014
    Co-Authors: Paolo Sylos Labini
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    Italian Abstract: L'autore discute la "Nota sull'attuale congiuntura economica in Italia e sulle politiche per fronteggiarla", documento preparato dal Partito Socialista italiano (PSI) in vista del suo accesso al governo. L'economia italiana rischia di entrare in una crisi prolungata, a meno che non vengano intraprese numerose riforme volte a stimolare l'innovazione, a riformare la pubblica amministrazione, a investire nell'istruzione. English Abstract: The author discusses the “Nota sull’attuale congiuntura economica in Italia e sulle politiche per fronteggiarla”, a document prepared by the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in sight of its access to government. The Italian economy risks entering a prolonged crisis unless a number of reforms are undertaken, aimed at boosting innovation, reforming the public administration, investing in education.

  • se il psi va al governo un documento serio if the Socialist Party goes to power a serious document
    Moneta e Credito, 2014
    Co-Authors: Paolo Sylos Labini
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    The author discusses the “Nota sull’attuale congiuntura economica in Italia e sulle politiche per fronteggiarla”, a document prepared by the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in sight of its access to government. The Italian economy risks entering a prolonged crisis unless a number of reforms are undertaken, aimed at boosting innovation, reforming the public administration, investing in education.

Kerstin Hamann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • linking policies and economic voting explaining reelection in the case of the spanish Socialist Party
    Comparative Political Studies, 2000
    Co-Authors: Kerstin Hamann
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    Economic voting literature has shown that voters hold governments responsible for the state of the economy. Election studies have also found that voters punish governing parties that divert from their campaign promises and move their policy positions. These bodies of literature cannot convincingly explain the repeated reelection of the Socialist Party, which passed supply-side economic measures at odds with campaign promises and its traditional ideology. Furthermore, the Party succeeded in gaining reelection regardless of the state of the economy and despite consistently high unemployment. In this article, it is argued that to better understand the repeated electoral success of the Socialist Party, three additional factors have to be taken into account: the Party system, compensatory policies, and internal Party politics. These factors allowed the Spanish Socialist Party to build an electoral support coalition based on lower classes, rural voters, and voters dependent on state-subsidized income.

Liam Kane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Influence of Teachers on the Development of Political Radicals: A Case Study of Members of the Scottish Socialist Party.
    British Educational Research Journal, 2012
    Co-Authors: Liam Kane
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    While there is a wealth of literature on radical adult ‘popular’ education for change, most of it looks forward and speculates on the educational processes best able to help ‘the oppressed’, ‘excluded’ or ‘disadvantaged’ become critically-aware ‘subjects’ of social change. Within a critical education framework, recent research looked in the opposite direction, identified adult activists already critically-aware and worked backwards through their life histories to find the educational experiences seen as most influential in their development. Examining questionnaire responses, this article analyses how members of the Scottish Socialist Party perceived the influence exercised by their teachers, from primary to tertiary education, in the development of their beliefs and identity as activists. Comparisons are made with research in ‘active citizenship’. The research suggests there is more potential for radical education within the formal sector than is often believed and teachers contribute to this process in sometimes contradictory ways. The findings feed into debates in the UK and other countries, particularly in Latin America, about where popular educators should direct their energies, within state structures or outside, in social movements.

  • the educational influences on active citizens a case study of members of the scottish Socialist Party ssp
    Studies in the education of adults, 2007
    Co-Authors: Liam Kane
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    AbstractWhile there is a wealth of literature and research on radical adult ‘popular’ education for social change, most of it looks forward and speculates on the educational processes best able to help the oppressed of the world overcome naive passivity and become critically aware ‘subjects’ of social change. Within a critical education framework, this article looks in the opposite direction, starts with activists who are already critically aware and works backwards through their life histories to search for the educational experiences, formal and informal, considered to have been most influential in their development. Two hundred and seventy-eight members of the new Scottish Socialist Party responded to a questionnaire inquiring into a range of possible educational influences leading them to become Socialist activists: this article analyses the findings of that study, draws comparisons with other research in the more generalised area of ‘active citizenship’ and considers the implications this might have ...

Stephanie Whitfield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • does scandal influence voters Party preference the case of greece during the papandreou era
    European Sociological Review, 1992
    Co-Authors: Betty A Dobratz, Stephanie Whitfield
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    The literature on corruption and scandals suggests that there is an unsettled issue concerning whether the public opinion of citizens is greatly influenced by reports of scandal and corruption. Recent developments in Greek politics provide an excellent empirical setting for the testing of how much influence scandals may have on Party preference and voting. Toward the end of and after the controversial Papandreou administration in Greece (June 1981-June 1989), a great deal of attention was given to scandals that plagued the Socialist government. Two of the major scandals centered on Papandreou's love affair with a former airline stewardess, and the Koskotas scandal that allegedly involved millions of dollars being transferred from the Bank of Crete to the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the ruling Socialist Party headed by Papandreou, and to friends of then Prime Minister Papandreou. The reaction of the Greeks to the love affair and the Koskotas scandal, and the potential influence of these reactions on Party preference and voting are considered. Other variables that may be influential in shaping voting preferences are also examined.

  • does scandal influence voters Party preference the case of greece during the
    1992
    Co-Authors: Betty A Dobratz, Stephanie Whitfield
    Abstract:

    The literature on corruption and scandals suggests that there is an unsettled issue concerning whether the public opinion of citizens is greatly influenced by reports of scandal and corruption. Recent developments in Greek politics provide an excellent empirical setting for the testing of how much influence scandals may have on Party preference and voting. Toward the end of and after the controversial Papandreou administration in Greece (June 1981-June 1989), a great deal of attention was given to scandals that plagued the Socialist government. Two of the major scandals centered on Papandreou's love affair with a former airline stewardess, and the Koskotas scandal that allegedly involved millions of dollars being transferred from the Bank of Crete to the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the ruling Socialist Party headed by Papandreou, and to friends of then Prime Minister Papandreou. The reaction of the Greeks to the love affair and the Koskotas scandal, and the potential influence of these reactions on Party preference and voting are considered. Other variables that may be influential in shaping voting preferences are also examined.

Burce Sacerdote - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • why doesn t the united states have a european style welfare state
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2001
    Co-Authors: Alberto Alesina, Edward L Glaeser, Burce Sacerdote
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    European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre-tax income distribution, the volatility of income (perhaps because of trade shocks), the social costs of taxation and the expected income mobility of the median voter. None of these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result of racial heterogeneity in the US and American political institutions. Racial animosity in the US makes redistribution to the poor, who are disproportionately black, unappealing to many voters. American political institutions limited the growth of a Socialist Party, and more generally limited the political power of the poor.