Examining a major road-building program in India, researchers at Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics used an innovative technique to show that political corruption increased the chances that roads meant to connect isolated areas to the rest of the country would never be built, even though the government had paid for them. (more…)
Can the president single-handedly toss out environmental rules designed to combat global warming? Force states like Washington to help enforce federal immigration laws? Fire Robert Mueller? (more…)
Consumers “forget” when products have ethical issues
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Many consumers have found a way to cope with the knowledge that products they like have been made unethically: They simply forget they ever knew it. (more…)
Sparsam und wirtschaftlich: Wie Effizienz als verfassungsrechtlicher Begriff und das Wesen der Demokratie zusammengehen, erforscht die Juristin Maria Bertel. Wie können staatliche Aktionen gemessen und beurteilt werden? (more…)
President Vladimir Putin met with pilot cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. The President in person congratulated her on the remarkable date – the 55th anniversary of her single-person flight around the Earth aboard the Vostok-6 spaceship, which began on June 16, 1963, and lasted almost three days. (more…)
Voters are wrong to think they can pick the best politician based on their looks, according to new research which shows this leads to less effective people being elected. (more…)
Jeff Hou is a professor of landscape architecture and adjunct professor of urban design and planning in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. His research, teaching and practice focus on community design, design activism, cross-cultural learning and engaging marginalized communities in planning and design. (more…)
Einer Studie zufolge vergibt die Regierung in Indonesien Finanzmittel an die Distrikte nach politischen Gesichtspunkten
Wie verteilt die zentrale Regierung in Indonesien öffentliche Gelder auf die Kommunen, und welche Aspekte spielen dabei eine Rolle? Diese Fragen haben die Ökonomen Prof. Dr. Günter G. Schulze, Gerrit Gonschorek und Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir von der Universität Freiburg anhand einer einzigartigen Datensammlung aus mehr als 400 indonesischen Bezirken für die Jahre 2005 bis 2013 untersucht. (more…)
