SSRN Political Economy - Development: Public Service Delivery eJournal

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What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview

Project Management Journal, April/May 2014

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Bent Flyvbjerg

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 9,204

2.

Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jul 2015

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr., John E Whitley and Rebekah C. Riley

Crime Prevention Research Center, Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 8,924

3.

The MOOC Phenomenon: Who Takes Massive Open Online Courses and Why?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

Gayle Christensen, Andrew Steinmetz, Brandon Alcorn, Amy Bennett, Deirdre Woods and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Office of the Provost, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Office of the Provost, University of Pennsylvania, Office of the Provost, University of Pennsylvania, Office of the Provost, University of Pennsylvania and Office of the Provost, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Department of Health Care Management, University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 8,290

4.

Good Governance - Concept, Meaning and Features: A Detailed Study

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2010

Working Paper Series

Meetika Srivastava

Independent

Downloads 6,169

5.

Should We Build More Large Dams? The Actual Costs of Hydropower Megaproject Development

Energy Policy, March 2014, pp.1-14.

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier and Daniel Lunn

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford - Saïd Business School and University of Oxford - Department of Statistics

Downloads 5,180

6.

Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2016

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and Carlisle E. Moody

Crime Prevention Research Center and College of William and Mary - Department of Economics

Downloads 4,377

7.

Measuring the Rule of Law

Number of pages: 120 Posted: 01 Dec 2011

Working Paper Series

Juan Carlos Botero and Alejandro Ponce

World Justice Project and The World Justice Project

Downloads 3,996

8.

Globalization Effect on Education and Culture: An Analysis

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 28 May 2012

Working Paper Series

Naveen Kumar Sharma Sr.

Government Engineering College, Bikaner

Downloads 3,309

9.

Price Risk Management in the Energy Industry: The Value at Risk Approach

Proceedings of the XXII Annual International Conference of the International Association for Energy Economics, 9-12 June 1999

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 15 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alessandro Mauro

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 3,261

10.

Why Prison?: An Economic Critique

Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2017, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Peter N. Salib

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Downloads 2,968

11.

Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place

Number of pages: 173 Posted: 18 May 2014 Last Revised: 23 May 2014

Working Paper Series

Rodrigo Davies

Center for Work, Technology and Organizations

Downloads 2,769

12.

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Oct 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Hadi Salehi, Mohamed Amin Embi, Farid Habibi, Hossein Gholizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Motahar and Ali Ordi

Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM)University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education, University of Economic Sciences, University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Information Science and Technology and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Advance Informatics School (AIS)

Downloads 2,754

13.

An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 89, pp. 917-1030, April 2005

Number of pages: 114 Posted: 14 Sep 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Brett M. Frischmann

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Downloads 2,682

14.

Importance of Social Psychology in the Society

Educational Research International Vol. 3(5) October 2014

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 05 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Muhammad Abdullah Avais, Aijaz Ali Wassan, Rafique Ahmed Chandio and Muhammad Zakir Shaikh

University of Sindh - Department of Sociology, University of Sindh - Department of Sociology, University of Sindh - Department of Economics and Mehran University of Engineering & Technology

Downloads 2,453

15.

The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and Income Distribution

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3400

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

César A. Calderón and Luis Servén

Central Bank of Chile and World Bank - Office of the Chief Economist

Downloads 2,260

16.

Evolution of the System of Public Administration in India from the Period 1858- 1950: A Detailed Study Highlighting the Major Landmarks in Administrative History Made During this Period

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014

Working Paper Series

Meetika Srivastava

Independent

Downloads 2,147

17.

Honor, Prestige, and the Academy: A Portrait of Political Science Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty in Ph.D.-Granting Institutions (2012-2013)

Political Science and Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert L. Oprisko

Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change

Downloads 2,091

18.

The Controversy over the Safe Schools Program – Finding the Sensible Centre

Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 16/83

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Sep 2016

Working Paper Series

Patrick Parkinson

The University of Sydney Law School

Downloads 1,880

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Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries

Applied Econometrics and International Development, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2007

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Aug 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Varadharajan Sridhar

Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Centre for research in urban affairs and International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) - Centre for IT and Public Policy

Downloads 1,800

20.

Bill C-51 Backgrounder #2: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's Proposed Power to 'Reduce' Security Threats Through Conduct that May Violate the Law and Charter

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Feb 2015

Working Paper Series

Craig Forcese and Kent Roach

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,722

21.

Privacy and the New Energy Infrastructure

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Elias Leake Quinn

University Colorado Law School - CEES

Downloads 1,701

22.

Removing Roadblocks to Intelligent Vehicles and Driverless Cars

Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy (2015), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2015

Working Paper Series

Adam D. Thierer and Ryan Hagemann

George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Mercatus Center

Downloads 1,681

23.

Policing a Free Society

Policing a Free Society Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger Pub. Co. (1977), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1349

Number of pages: 374 Posted: 24 Apr 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Herman Goldstein

University of Wisconsin Law School

Downloads 1,646

24.

The FBI's Misrepresentation of the Change in Mass Public Shootings

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, March 2015

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2015

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 1,468

25.

Where Do We Stand on Transport Infrastructure Deregulation and Public-Private Partnership?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3356

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Antonio Estache and Tomas Serebrisky

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Downloads 1,439

26.

Do Background Checks on Private Gun Transfers Help Stop Mass Public Shootings?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Jan 2016

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Downloads 1,409

27.

Infrastructure and Growth in Developing Countries: Recent Advances and Research Challenges

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4460

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Stéphane Straub

University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Downloads 1,388

28.

An International Legal Framework for Surveillance

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 55, Issue 2, 2015, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2014-53

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 05 Sep 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Ashley Deeks

University of Virginia - School of Law

Downloads 1,350

29.

The Shooting Cycle

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 46, 2014

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Josh Blackman and Shelby Baird

South Texas College of Law Houston and Yale University

Downloads 1,347

30.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Indian Health Care

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Dec 2012

Working Paper Series

Dr. Ramakrishnan

Classic Consultants

Downloads 1,332

31.

Mega Delusional: The Curse of the Megaproject

New Scientist, pp. 28-29.

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 19 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Bent Flyvbjerg

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 1,325

32.

Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4712

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

César Calderón and Luis Servén

World Bank and World Bank - Office of the Chief Economist

Downloads 1,317

33.

DeKo: An Electricity-Backed Currency Proposal

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2012

Working Paper Series

Nick Gogerty and Joseph Zitoli

SolarCoin Foundation and SolarCoin Foundation

Downloads 1,289

34.

Comparative Pipeline Politics: Oil Sands Pipeline Controversies in Canada and the United States

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2012

Working Paper Series

George Hoberg, Andrea Rivers and Geoff Salomons

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of British Columbia (UBC)

Downloads 1,224

35.

Economists' and Criminologists' Views on Guns: Crime, Suicides, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws

Regulation, Summer 2016, Vol 39, no. 2

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 16 May 2016

Working Paper Series

John R. Lott Jr. and Gary A. Mauser

Crime Prevention Research Center and Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Beedie School of Business

Downloads 1,224

36.

Youth Perspectives on Tech in Schools: From Mobile Devices to Restrictions and Monitoring

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-3

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Jan 2014

Working Paper Series

Sandra Cortesi, Paulina Haduong, Urs Gasser, Osman Tolga Aricak, Mark Saldaña and Zach Lerner

Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University-Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Downloads 1,210

37.

Criticism of Plato's Theory of Education and its Relevance in Modern Times

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Mar 2015

Working Paper Series

Ritika Vohra

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab

Downloads 1,175

38.

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Maryam Farhadi and Nader Ale Ebrahim

Islamic Azad University, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, National University of Malaysia - Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia (UKM) - Research Center for Islamic Economics and Finance (EKONIS-UKM), Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh Branch, National University of Malaysia (UKM) and Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM)University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture

Downloads 1,155

39.

How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police

130 Harvard Law Review 1539 (2017), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 562, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 746

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 19 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

John Rappaport

University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 1,129

40.

Lessons from Gurgaon, India's Private City

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 14-32

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Oct 2014

Working Paper Series

Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander T. Tabarrok

Department of Economics, SUNY Purchase College and George Mason University - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,113

41.

Micro Health Insurance in India - Pointers for Progress

IRDA Journal, Vol. 5, No. 12, 2007

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David M. Dror

Micro Insurance Academy (MIA)

Downloads 1,111

42.

Does 'Paper Oil' Matter? Energy Markets’ Financialization and Equity-Commodity Co-Movements

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 May 2011 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Bahattin Buyuksahin and Michel A. Robe

Bank of Canada and American University - Kogod School of Business

Downloads 1,109

43.

Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Tools for Change

48 Arizona State Law Journal 313 (2016)., University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 16-2

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Jason P. Nance

University of Florida Levin College of Law

Downloads 1,063

44.

Public Infrastructure and Growth: New Channels and Policy Implications

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4064

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Pierre-Richard Agenor and Blanca Moreno-Dodson

University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences and World Bank

Downloads 1,046

45.

China's Hunt for Oil in Africa in Perspective

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 22 Oct 2006

Working Paper Series

ZhongXiang Zhang

Tianjin University - College of Management and Economics

Downloads 997

46.

Delivery of Public Services - The Way Forward

15th Thinkers and Writers Forum, March 2013

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dr. Ramakrishnan

Classic Consultants

Downloads 997

47.

Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 139

Number of pages: 109 Posted: 04 Mar 2008

Working Paper Series

Devesh Kapur and Megan Crowley

University of Pennsylvania - Center for the Advanced Study of India and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 994

48.

What is Governance?

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 314

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 Mar 2013

Working Paper Series

Francis Fukuyama

Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Downloads 993

49.

Legal Strategies in Upstream Oil and Gas Contracts to Attract Foreign Investment: Iran's Case

Number of pages: 138 Posted: 13 May 2011 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Amir Hossein Mabadi

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 970

50.

The Corporate Responsibility to Remedy (3rd Pillar Ruggie Framework) - Analysis of the Corporate Responses in Three Major Oil Spill Cases: Shell - Nigeria, BP – US (the Gulf), Chevron – Ecuador

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2011-26

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Nov 2011

Working Paper Series

Tineke Lambooy, Mary A. Varner and Aikaterini Argyrou

Utrecht University School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis and Utrecht University, School of Law, Students

Downloads 950

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