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1 ECONOMIC COUNTERCYCLICAL FISCAL POLICY AND GROWTH IN DEMOCRACIES AFTER THE 2008 RECESSION Bradley Harmon recovery, while opponents claim that in many cases these policies widespread unemployment, and a very slow recovery for many economies policy and proponents of Keynesian countercyclical policy. Procyclical 1

2 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy theories. recoveries and the work of other scholars on the factors which may determine little has been written empirically on the outcomes of these policies. 2

3 assumes that countercyclical policy alone leads to recovery but the importance 3

4 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy Credit accessibility and availability, an important driver of economic recovery. 4

5 economic recovery. Theory understand the theory behind them. businesses to lack the credit needed to invest in their own production and 5

6 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy sound in this particular case. 6

7 the data and should be controlled for. economic policies, and the concept of economies of scale implies that the Cases and observations variables is considered. 7

8 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy 8

9 validity of the model and thus the validity of the results. implications of this study are not wide in scope but may advance responses to 9

10 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy Nevertheless, this study has considerable limitations. First 10

11 Bibliography 11

12 Harmon, Countercycical Fiscal Policy 12

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15 VISION TO PRODUCT: INCONSISTENCIES IN THEORIES USED IN FAILED PEACEBUILDING PROGRAMS Rick Bartoldus Introduction 15

16 Bartoldus, Vision to Product research on the issue. are well documented, the literature on the problem of mismatched theories analysis is unnecessary and there is evidence that this issue could become no mismatch in theory between the development and the implementation 16

17 and provides an overview of the relevant variables. For the analysis section, the the potential breadth of the problem, as well as avenues for future research. 17

18 Bartoldus, Vision to Product Programs of contact for stability promotion, but more importantly it provides the basis 18

19 19 international community, but actually received support for their actions and, many other countries, the state is not necessarily the maintainer of peace and

20 Bartoldus, Vision to Product says that the narrow viewpoint of the West dismisses them because they do 20

21 development was a linear evolution into market democracy, and thus all a yet still adverse, perceptions can arise and create social structures and power revolves around these socially constructed perceptions and structures, and 21

22 Bartoldus, Vision to Product 22

23 ways, this cannot be seen as an independent scholarly theory because it does 23

24 Bartoldus, Vision to Product Methodology Since the concept of mismatched theories is new, the scope of the hypothesis is rather aims to see whether the issue, which will likely become more common in the mechanisms by which mismatched theories are most likely to operate. that mismatched theories are endemic, or attempted to claim that certain and aims to test whether or not mismatched theories could be a problem, a 24

25 Discussion of Variables variable on the dependent variable will concentrate solely on how mismatched 25

26 Bartoldus, Vision to Product better understand its creation and implementation. 26

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28 Bartoldus, Vision to Product in parallel. 28

29 must evolve beyond them. social structures. 29

30 Bartoldus, Vision to Product should become key decision makers in the process and youth should be harmony. 30

31 Further research is needed to see whether the problem of theoretical out an initial analysis for the mechanisms of the problem, but further research 31

32 Bartoldus, Vision to Product Bibliography 32

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