If QE and looser short-term fiscal policies boost demand, growth, and employment, governments may be more likely to implement politically painful structural reforms and long-term fiscal consolidation.
Another important result is that countries undertaking fiscal consolidation measures are more likely to implement labour market reforms.
Likewise, we wanted to know if cadres with guerrilla backgrounds were more likely to implement economic policies that protected the masses.
The expectations however remain the same, with countries that are experiencing a deceleration in GDP growth being more likely to implement reforms (Duval 2008).
Based on the results, farmers are more likely to implement soil conservation measures as adaptation strategy on parts of their agricultural land that are more susceptible (steep slopes) to climate change risks.
For that reason, provinces were more likely to implement the reform early and massively if its governing political party was the same as the national governing party (Alzúa et al. 2015).
It is worth noting that although the land reform cadres were local cadres, they were more likely to implement policies favored by high-level officials because their power derived from higher-level governments.
Great attention has been paid to the analysis of the timing of reforms over the business cycle (e.g. whether governments are more likely to implement reforms during economic crises) as well as to the role played by other institutional and economic factors (e.g. fixed exchange rate) (Turrini et al. 2015; Duval 2008).
People are more likely to implement risk-reduction strategies before an event or evacuate during an event if they comprehend that past events have impacted their communities, if they believe that future events could do so again and that viable mitigation options exist, and if they themselves have been involved in determining their community's risk-reduction strategies (Mileti [1999]).
But if we equip ourselves with the tools (programmable thermostat) and connect to motivating factors (my bill and helping the environment), then we're more likely to implement lasting change.
