Search Results - subject:"INTEREST GROUPS"

The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion : Federalism, Interest Groups, and the ACA

Sutter, Daniel - 2018

Medicaid was established in 1965 as a joint state and federal program to provide medical insurance to Americans who are poor and have disabilities, and it has grown from 1percent to 3 percent of GDP. The source of Medicaid s growth over the past 50 years must inform efforts to reform the program...

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Blockchain as a Disruptive Technology. Notes from a Seminar of Ninso, the Northumbria Internet & Society Research Interest Group

Rasiah, Samantha - 2018

This report is based on a NINSO seminar presented by Dr Giuseppe Destefanis, a guest speaker from the School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire. NINSO is a multidisciplinary research group with members from various academic departments, among them being Law, Business, IT, Mass...

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

special interest groups with information on their preferences for particular bills, we construct novel measures of electoral …

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From Industry Associations to Ecosystem Associations : Blockchain, Interest Groups and Public Choice

Berg, Chris - 2018

Conventional public choice literature suggests that interest groups have a largely malign effect upon the economy …. Suggesting that interest groups are primarily established to lobby governments for rents, the public choice approach essentially … rests upon normative presumptions concerning the appropriateness of relationships between interest groups and the state …

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