scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Residential Real Estate Investment in the Economic Development of the Northeast Region of the United States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveena Rajam Jayaraman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Residential Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Northeast Region

Representative Bureaucracy: An Empirical Analysis

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth John Meier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Special Services ◽  
The Future

Past theories of representative bureaucracy have four weaknesses: they assume that traditional controls are ineffective without empirical evidence, rely on secondary variables, omit the effects of lifetime socialization, and do not consider the role of individual bureaus. Because of these weaknesses, a representative bureaucracy need not be a responsive bureaucracy. Although restricted by secondary analysis, this paper seeks to eliminate these failings and empirically demonstrate the unrepresentative nature of the United States federal bureaucracy. The representativeness of various grade classifications, special services, and bureaus is also measured; and the United States upper civil service is compared to that of five other nations. After an attempt to measure the values of bureaucrats, the future concerns of the theory of representative bureaucracy are outlined.

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AND EXPORT-ORIENTED INDUSTRIALIZATION ON TAIWAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
James Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
American Diplomacy

Abstract Scholars have pointed to the period 1958-1962 as the beginning of Taiwan's transition to export-oriented industrialization. Although the Nationalist Party (KMT) had traditionally supported state socialism, the KMT began to oversee economic reforms in the late 1950s, setting Taiwan on the course of export-led growth under a capitalist model. Using archival materials from both the United States and Taiwan, I argue that the reforms resulted from U.S. influence on how the KMT understood the role of economic development in its grand strategy. U.S. arguments succeeded in creating political support at the highest levels of the KMT leadership for a reform-oriented faction in the economic bureaucracy. This finding shows how an aid donor can promote economic reforms even when the recipient is strategically important for the donor: although threats to enforce conditionality may not be credible, the donor can influence the recipient through persuasion.

Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Randolph Beard ◽  
Robert B. Ekelund ◽  
George S. Ford ◽  
Ben Gaskins ◽  
Robert D. Tollison
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Marginal Effects ◽  
Religious Attachment

AbstractThe effect of religion on political behavior and attachment has been a topic of intense interest in the United States and elsewhere. Less attention has been paid to the issue of secularism. Some analysts have viewed secularism as anabsenceof religious attachment, and a number of studies have utilized indices of secularization to analyze such topics as economic development or modernization. In this article, we show that secularism, like religion, is in fact a multifaceted category, and should not be viewed as the antithesis of religiosity. Utilizing a very large sample of United States adults, we apply factor analysis to demonstrate that secularism is composed of two logically separate components, and we use these results to examine the role of secularism in political attachments. We suggest thatReligious SecularismandSocial Secularismare different motivations and have different effects on political behavior and that, politically, the marginal effects of Social Secularism are larger than Religious Secularism in all cases.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEW FIRM FORMATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST REGION OF THE UNITED STATES

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAIMA BASHIR ◽  
TESFA GEBREMEDHIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Firm Formation ◽  
Northeast Region ◽  
New Firm Formation ◽  
New Firm ◽  
Per Capita

The overall objective of this study is to provide policy makers identifies and estimates the role and impacts of new firm formation in the Northeast region of the United States. The empirical model of this study is derived from the three-equation simultaneous model of Deller et al. (2001). In this study, Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS) method is used to estimate the simultaneous equations model. The research findings indicate that population density and per capita income have a positive link with new firm formation. Higher population density and per capita income encourage entrepreneurs to start new firms in the region. This leads to an increase of new jobs, which is a positive contribution to economic development in the Northeast region.

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