fabiobayer's proportion [2 articles]

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Several recent articles outline the formal logic of supervision and compliance (e.g., Bianco and Bates 1990; Holmstrom 1982; Kreps 1990; and Miller 1992). These models lead to widely varying conclusions about what makes for effective supervision, indeed, whether supervision can induce compliance among subordinates at all. Our paper evaluates these models by extending the formal logic into models of the systemic component of the stochastic processes of police behavior. In other words, when is it time to lay a speed trap, ...

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The 2006 presidential elections in Brazil witnessed a dramatic shift of Lula's voting base away from the more developed regions of the country and towards the poorest areas. This paper uses municipal-level data to argue that while this shift represents an important change for the support base of Lula himself, it can mostly be explained by the government's massive cash transfer programme, the Bolsa Familia, and by the empirical regularity with which presidential candidates from the incumbent party in Brazil always ...