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UNINA9910964629203321 |
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Autore |
Vardy Felix |
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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts : : A Model of Vote Buying / / Felix Vardy, John Morgan |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006 |
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9786613829115 |
9781462311477 |
1462311474 |
9781452738048 |
1452738041 |
9781283516662 |
1283516667 |
9781451908077 |
1451908075 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (23 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Corruption |
Competition |
Administrative Processes in Public Organizations |
Associations |
Bureaucracy |
Clubs |
Committees |
Corporate crime |
Crime |
Criminology |
Finance |
Finance: General |
Financial markets |
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) |
Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior |
Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation |
Public finance & taxation |
Social Choice |
Tax incentives |
Taxation |
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General |
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White-collar crime |
United Kingdom |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"January 2006." |
"IMF Institute." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Contents""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. The Model""; ""III. Variation in Contracts""; ""A. Contracting on Votes""; ""B. Contracting on Outcomes""; ""C. Contracting on Votes and Vote Shares""; ""IV. Related Literature""; ""V. Conclusions""; ""References"" |
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In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome. We find that vote buying is cheaper when what can be contracted upon coincides with what voters care about. Vote buying becomes extremely costly, or even impossible, when there is no such coincidence. Finally, vote buying is extremely cheap, or even free, when contracts can be contingent upon both individual votes and vote shares. |
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UNINA9910959083103321 |
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Autore |
Alkon Paul K (Paul Kent) |
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Science fiction before 1900 : imagination discovers technology / / Paul K. Alkon |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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1-134-98056-6 |
0-203-76087-5 |
1-299-48050-0 |
1-134-98049-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Fantasy fiction - History and criticism |
Science fiction |
Fantasy fiction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"First Routledge paperback edition 2002"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE 1900; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chronoloqy; Chapter 1 AShort History of the Future; Chapter 2 England: New Viewpoints; Chapter 3 France: Technophilia; Chapter 4 America: Technophobia; Notes and References; Bibliographic Essay; Recommended Titles; Index |
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Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the genre and its relation to other kinds of literature. |
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UNINA9910959385603321 |
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Autore |
Pedersen Nils Arne <1959-> |
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Demonstrative proof in defence of God : a study of Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos : the work's sources, aims, and relation to its contemporary theology / / by Nils Arne Pedersen |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2004 |
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1-280-91523-4 |
9786610915231 |
90-474-0545-5 |
1-4294-0812-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (592 p.) |
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Collana |
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, , 0929-2470 ; ; 56 |
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Disciplina |
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Manichaeism - Controversial literature - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-516) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Summary of Contents -- Receptions, editions and scholarship history of Contra Manichaeos -- The historical and literary context for Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos -- The audience for Contra Manichaeos and the portrayal of Manichaeism that Titus wished to present to them -- The Manichaean texts used by Titus of Bostra -- Titus of Bostra's philosophical position -- Titus of Bostra's interpretation of the Paradise narrative -- Comparison between the exegesis of Genesis in Titus of Bostra and in a number of writers in "the Antiochene School" -- Summary of the study's most important conclusions -- Critical examinations of the text -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Sources -- Index of Persons. |
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This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos , which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy. The study illuminates the text's relation to contemporary theology and philosophy and interprets it in the light of the ideological conflicts between pagans, Catholic Christians and Manichaeans in the 4th century. It includes an examination of the possible Manichaean sources |
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used by Titus, and, furthermore, a critical text study and translation of central passages in Contra Manichaeos , based both on the Greek text and the Syriac version of it. |
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