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De la aljama a la corte: aproximación biográfica del médico converso valenciano Pere Pintor (<em>ca</em>. 1423-1508)

2019

This paper deals with the biography of the doctor from Valencia Pere Pintor, a member of a family of Valencian Jewish conversos. He was a doctor who, after training at the Estudi General in Lleida, worked for nearly thirty years in the city of Valencia, in the service of the municipal council, numerous noblemen, and the royal household. As a doctor, he became very successful and well known, and he amassed great wealth in parallel to his social advancement. All this was placed in jeopardy with the establishment, in 1481, of the court of the Holy Inquisition in the kingdom of Valencia, which fiercely attacked and repressed Pintor and his family. As a result of this he left Valencia and moved …

Cultural StudiesLinguistics and LanguageHistoryHistoryLiterature and Literary TheoryJudaismReligious studiesBiography06 humanities and the artsMunicipal councilBrotherLanguage and LinguisticsValencianlanguage.human_language060104 historyKingdomlanguage0601 history and archaeologyHumanitiesSefarad
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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections

2017

We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional election system to quantify the effect. One more councilor employed by the public sector increases spending by about 1%. The effect comes largely through the largest party and is specific to the employment sector of the municipal employee. The results are consistent with public employees having an information advantage over other politicians, and thus, being able to influence policy.

Labour economicsSociology and Political Sciencepublic financesEmployment sectorPublic administrationRepresentation (politics)Public spendingPoliticskunnanvaltuustotpolitiikka0502 economics and business050602 political science & public administrationEconomicsta517050207 economicskunnan työntekijätta511julkinen talousjulkiset menotbusiness.industrypublic sector05 social sciencesPublic sectorpublic expendituresJA Political science (General)julkinen sektorimunicipal employees0506 political sciencePolitical Science and International Relationsmunicipal councilspoliticsbusinessAmerican Political Science Review
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The School Boards Between Power and Influence

2014

The decentralized Scandinavian school structure with the municipal school committee as a central factor between the municipal council and other school interests gives the school board a central role in the implementation of the centrally decided school legislation from the parliament. Therefore, the central questions in modern Scandinavian schooling are: what are the ways of influence and what power mechanisms are in play throughout the schooling system.

Power (social and political)ParliamentPolitical sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectLegislationPublic administrationMunicipal councilMunicipal levelmedia_common
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