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Paint-By-Numbers Journalism: How Reader Surveys and Focus Groups Subvert a Democratic Press
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-04)Journalism in America has always had two warring halves. On the one side, it is a public service, armed with staunch principles about the people's right to know. On the other, it is a business, invigorated by hearty profits ... -
Panama beyond the Canal: Using Technological Proximities to Identify Opportunities for Productive Diversification
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-03)The economy of Panama has thrived for more than a decade, based on a modern service sector on the activities surrounding the Canal. Panama has inserted its economy into global value chains, providing competitive services ... -
Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Options for TRIPS Council
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2002-03)This Working Paper is organized in the following parts. We first analyze Paragraph 6 and the Doha Declaration in detail, to appreciate accurately the mandate created by the WTO Ministerial. We then consider two current ... -
Parallel R&D Paths Revisited
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)This paper revisits the logic of pursuing parallel R&D paths when there is uncertainty as to which approaches will succeed technically and/or economically. Previous findings by Richard Nelson and the present author are ... -
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-07)This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, ... -
Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
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A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define-Combine Procedure
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-08)Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering but they all require either bipartisan consensus or the agreement of both parties on the legitimacy of a neutral third party ... -
Partners of Necessity: The Case for Collaboration in Local Investigative Reporting
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)Anyone who thinks there’s an easy rescue in sight for rebuilding local investigative reporting capacity is wrong. Newspapers, traditionally the source of most investigative coverage in communities, will not be able to ... -
Partnerships for the Real World
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Partnerships under Pressure: Lessons on Adaptation and Overcoming Challenges
(Routledge, 2022)Partnerships are inherently challenging. They require two or more partners to share common goals and to work together over the lifetime of a project. This chapter investigates the durability of partnership arrangements and ... -
Passive Political Legitimacy: How the Chinese Online Sphere Went from Challenging to Supporting the State within the Past Decade
(University of Chicago Press, 2022)The Chinese government’s rhetoric and policies have become increasingly assertive in recent years, leading some observers abroad to see China as a threat to democracy and the international order. However, less attention ... -
The Past & Future of Indian Finance
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)India’s growth story depends on the vitality of its financial system. Within the span of five years, the Indian economy has endured two unprecedented shocks: the 2019 economic slowdown triggered by a financial crisis, and ... -
Patenting nature or protecting culture? Ethnopharmacology and indigenous intellectual property rights
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Ethnopharmacologists are scientists and anthropologists that study indigenous medicines and healing practices, and who often develop new therapies and medicines for wider use. Ethnopharmacologists do fieldwork with indigenous ... -
The Path to Labor Formality: Urban Agglomeration and the Emergence of Complex Industries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-10)Labor informality, associated with low productivity and lack of access to social security services, dogs developing countries around the world. Rates of labor (in)formality, however, vary widely within countries. This paper ... -
Pathways to Economic Advancement, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Innovations in American Government Award Case Study
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-01)Adult English learners (ELs) are as likely to find jobs in the U.S. labor market as those who speak English fluently. There are significant differences, however, when it comes to salary, job quality, and professional ... -
Patient Cost Sharing in Low Income Populations
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Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
(American Economic Association, 2009)In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public ... -
Pattern of Trade and Economic Development in the Model of Monopolistic Competition
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-04)The paper introduces differences in production and transaction conditions between countries into the model of monopolistic competition to investigate the interplay between trade policies and development strategies. It ... -
Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Aaron Kesselheim and colleagues examine potential strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drugs and follow-on biologics