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The Relationships between Permissive and Restrictive State Immigration Laws and Violent Crime Rates in Big Cities
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Traditionally a responsibility of the federal government, immigration policymaking has become more common in state legislatures. The majority of new state laws addressing immigration have been restrictive in the sense that ...
Are Large-scale Poverty Alleviation Programmes Implemented with Electoral Goals in Mind? A Study of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...
Exploring The Relationship Between Educational Inequality and Group-Level Armed Conflict Within a Country
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Several researchers have found a link between inequality across groups within a country and armed conflict. However, this research has focused almost exclusively on inequalities in income and political access, forsaking ...
CORRUPTION AND FDI: A REGIONAL STUDY OF DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...
Rocking the Vote? A Statistical Analysis of the Potential Effect of Online Voter Registration on Registration Rates
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study explores the potential effect of online voter registration (OLVR) on registration rates by employing ordinary least squares, difference-in-difference, and fixed effects models for county-year data from 2008, ...
American Foreign Policy Opinion and the Generation Gap: A Media Perspective
(Georgetown University, 2014)
A significant amount of research in the public opinion field has explored the American people's attitudes on American foreign policy and found the course of events, elite discourse, and news media are important predictors ...
The Politics of Urban Poverty: Participation and Welfare
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The rapid process of urbanization currently swelling the poor urban neighborhoods of developing countries is changing local and national political landscapes. As the population of urban poor continues to grow--it is expected ...
Social Networking Sites and Political Involvement
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Social media, especially social networking sites (SNS) is an important platform for people to seek and share information. Its features of unique spread function, easy accessibility and wide content coverage attract more ...
Promoting Exports or Fostering Disparity? The Effects of Exchange Rate Undervaluation on Income Inequality
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Income inequality finds a prominent place in contemporary political and economic debates. I demonstrate that sustained exchange rate undervaluation increases inequality, building on research linking undervaluation with ...
EL MERCADO DE TRABAJO EN LA ARGENTINA POST-2003: ESTADO DE LA CUESTIÓN, APORTES Y TENDENCIAS RECIENTES
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This work aims to develop a critical reading of specialized literature on Argentina´s labor market and make some contributions to model it more accurately.