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Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at … certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue …
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studying how personal traits of political leaders are associated with constitutional compliance. Compliance levels of 943 … political leaders between 1950 and 2010 can be explained by their education, entry into office, political experience, military … leaders, constitutional compliance is significantly lower. The combined effect of these two traits corresponds to the …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or … in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …
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studying how personal traits of political leaders are associated with constitutional compliance. Compliance levels of 943 … political leaders between 1950 and 2010 can be explained by their education, entry into office, political experience, military … leaders, constitutional compliance is significantly lower. The combined effect of these two traits corresponds to the …
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Objective: Leaders differ in their personalities from non-leaders. However, when do these differences emerge? Are … leaders "born to be leaders" or does their personality change in preparation for a leadership role and due to increasing … leaders (N = 2683 leaders, women: n = 967; 36.04%) and non-leaders (N = 33,663) as well as personality changes before and …
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This paper presents a model to account for the behaviour of social elites, in terms of their decisions to distribute resources between themselves, and a mass of disadvantaged members of society. Privileged members of society have the opportunity to allocate resources either to improve their own...
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The economic literature suggests several approaches to explain the differences of technological performances among nations, such as the varieties of capitalism's theory of innovation. However, the relation between typologies of executive and technological performances of countries is generally...
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Africa continues to face serious development challenges. Such challenges as dependency, corruption, underdeveloped … infrastructure and production sectors, leadership and governance, etc are some of the impediments to Africa’s quest for sustainable … and equitable development. Explaining such development challenges has continued to elude scholars. To the radical leftist …
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