Essays in Political Economy
This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the various ways in which political activism affects policy making, drawing upon evidence from the Tea Party movement in the United States in 2009 and 2010. The second essay develops a policy-centered framework...
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ndltd-harvard.edu-oai-dash.harvard.edu-1-102884372015-08-14T15:41:55ZEssays in Political EconomyVeuger, Staneconomicspolitical sciencebankingThis dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the various ways in which political activism affects policy making, drawing upon evidence from the Tea Party movement in the United States in 2009 and 2010. The second essay develops a policy-centered framework for understanding voting behavior in proportional-representation systems, and tests its predictions using survey data collected around the 2002 Dutch general elections. The third essay focuses on a specific aspect of the implementation of policy, the consequences regulatory supervision may have on firm performance, and assesses the net effect of this kind of supervision on firms' operating costs in the setting of the commercial-banking sector in the United States in the period 2001-2007.EconomicsFeldstein, Martin S.2013-02-08T16:12:05Z2013-02-082012Thesis or DissertationVeuger, Stan. 2012. Essays in Political Economy. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10222http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10288437en_USclosed accessHarvard University |
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This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the various ways in which political activism affects policy making, drawing upon evidence from the Tea Party movement in the United States in 2009 and 2010. The second essay develops a policy-centered framework for understanding voting behavior in proportional-representation systems, and tests its predictions using survey data collected around the 2002 Dutch general elections. The third essay focuses on a specific aspect of the implementation of policy, the consequences regulatory supervision may have on firm performance, and assesses the net effect of this kind of supervision on firms' operating costs in the setting of the commercial-banking sector in the United States in the period 2001-2007. === Economics |
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