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May 26, 2021
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom
By: Roger Garside, Andrew Nathan -
April 09, 2021
How Human Subjects Research Rules Mislead You and Your University, and What to Do About it
By: Gary King, Melissa Sands -
March 01, 2020
In Conversation with Melani Cammett, Ali Asani, and Payam Mohseni
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
March 01, 2020
China in a Changed World
By: Naima Green-Riley, Kibrom Teweldebirhan, Ruodi Duan -
September 01, 2019
Toward a Politics of Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change
By: Kathryn Sikkink -
March 01, 2019
How Human Subjects Research Rules Mislead You and Your University, and What to Do About it 1
By: Gary King, Melissa Sands -
September 01, 2018
Democracy’s Crisis: On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism
By: Nancy Fraser -
May 21, 2018
When Life Is in Limbo, Education Can't Wait
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
April 03, 2018
Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?
By: Rawi Abdelal, Alexandra Vacroux -
March 19, 2018
Global Oncology in Rwanda
By: Darja Djordjevic -
March 01, 2018
Insidious Threats to Academic Freedom in the US and Abroad
By: Michael Ignatieff, Craig Calhoun -
February 16, 2018
When Should Children Be Allowed to Work?
By: Lorenza Belinda Fontana -
February 02, 2018
Striking a Balance: Straight Talk on the Global Economy
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
January 25, 2018
Insight on Syria: The Unseen Challenges of Refugee Integration in Germany
By: Hanaa Masalmeh -
December 21, 2017
Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
December 05, 2017
The Cold War’s Endless Ripples
By: John Laidler -
November 08, 2017
Absences in the “Archive of Dominicanidad”
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
October 30, 2017
Turnout and Voter Insecurity in the French Elections
By: Adrien Abecassis -
October 10, 2017
What We Think about When We Think of Crime
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
September 26, 2017
Insight on Syria: A Quagmire of Warring Religious Groups? Why the Western View is Misguided
By: Melani Cammett -
July 26, 2017
Insight on Syria: Documenting the "Burden of War" on Syrians
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
June 21, 2017
A Change in the Winds for Software Piracy
By: S. Michael Impink Jr. -
May 30, 2017
Hard Times for Soft Power: A Q&A with Joseph Nye
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
April 25, 2017
Looking for Green in the Desert, an Irishman is Lured to Bahrain
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
April 10, 2017
A Life in the Margins: Understanding the Roma Experience
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
March 31, 2017
Now That TPP Is off the Table, What's Next for NAFTA?
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
March 06, 2017
From Rome to Rwanda: The Centuries-Long Effort to Define Civil War
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
March 01, 2017
Transcript: The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy by Robert O. Keohane
By: Robert O. Keohane -
February 23, 2017
Veganism: An Elegant Solution to a Host of Global Problems?
By: Nina Gheihman -
February 14, 2017
Elite Cues or Social Cues? The Formation of Public Opinion on Foreign Policy
By: Michelle Nicholasen, Joshua D. Kertzer -
January 25, 2017
he Power of Restraint in the “Golden Age” of Arms Control: A Tribute to Thomas C. Schelling
By: David C. Atkinson -
January 11, 2017
The Complex Ties between Poverty and Exclusion
By: Michelle Nicholasen, Lucie White -
December 12, 2016
The Lines We Draw Between Us
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
November 22, 2016
he World That Awaits President-Elect Trump
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
October 24, 2016
The Upside of Nationalism: Politics for the Common Good in India
By: Amanda Pearson -
October 11, 2016
Cross-National Responses to Discrimination: A Q&A with Michèle Lamont
By: Michelle Nicholasen -
September 01, 2016
How Do Rebels Rule When They Win?
By: Kai M. Thaler -
July 21, 2016
Background to Brexit: Populism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Resentment
By: Bart Bonikowski -
June 22, 2016
Background to Brexit: One-Size-Fits-All Monetary Policy and the Eurozone Crisis
By: Amanda Pearson -
May 09, 2016
Banners, Barricades, and Bombs: How Social Movements Affect Public Opinion
By: Amanda Pearson -
April 22, 2016
Pursuing Sustainability—Connecting Science and Practice
By: Megan Margulies, Amanda Pearson -
April 18, 2016
On Love and Metamorphosis
By: Meg Murphy -
April 04, 2016
Coming of Age, Setting a Goal
By: Meg Murphy -
March 09, 2016
Research Spotlight: Beth A. Simmons
By: Meg Murphy -
March 09, 2016
Neoliberal Policy Implementation Goes Hand in Hand with Stronger Symbolic Boundaries
By: Jonathan Mijs, Michèle Lamont -
March 09, 2016
Bridging Theory and Practice: A Life in the Field
By: Meg Murphy -
February 24, 2016
The Secrets of Containment: Making the Invisible Visible
By: Meg Murphy -
November 04, 2015
A Life’s Work Battling Religious Illiteracy
By: Meg Murphy -
March 01, 2015
Making Education Count: Finding Possibilities of Peace in the Unlikeliest of Place
By: Sarah Dryden-Peterson -
January 01, 2015
What Others Think of Us: Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics
By: Gwyneth McClendon -
September 05, 2014
Ratings and Regulation: A Case of an Irreversible Marriage?
By: Giulia Mennillo, Suryapratim Roy -
August 05, 2014
Problem Discovery as a Collaborative, Creative, and Method-Guided Search for the "Real Problems" as Raw Diamonds of Innovation
By: Gerald Steiner -
April 05, 2014
The Political Origins of the Africa's Economic Revival
By: Robert H. Bates, Steven Block -
February 05, 2013
Varieties of Populism: Literature Review and Research Agenda
By: Bart Bonikowski, Noam Gidron -
December 05, 2012
The Imperial Peace in Colonial Africa and Africa's Underdevelopment
By: Robert H. Bates -
November 05, 2012
Political Budget Cycles and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dominant Party Framework: Empirical Evidence from South Africa
By: Verena Kroth -
July 05, 2012
Moral Hazard in an Economic Union: Politics, Economics, and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe
By: James Alt, David Dreyer Lassen, Joachim Wehner -
June 05, 2012
Does the Sun Shine Really Shine on the Financial Markets?
By: Manfred Fruehwirth, Leopold Sögner -
March 05, 2012
Socio-Psychological Motives of Socially Responsible Investors
By: Julia M. Puaschunder -
December 05, 2011
Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from 1970 to 2000
By: Filiz Garip -
November 05, 2011
Public Policy, Price Shocks, and Conflict: Price Shocks and Civil War in Developing Countries
By: Robert H. Bates, Brett L. Carter -
October 05, 2011
The New Institutionalism and Africa
By: Robert H. Bates, Steven Block, Ghada Fayad, Anke Hoeffler -
October 05, 2011
The Future of Convergence
By: Dani Rodrik -
September 05, 2010
The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Rural Thailand
By: Filiz Garip -
September 05, 2010
Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from 1970 to 2000
By: Filiz Garip -
June 01, 2010
Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
By: Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn -
March 05, 2010
Israel and Palestine: Two States for Two Peoples: If Not Now, When?
By: Lenore G. Martin, Stephen M. Walt, Alan Berger, Harvey Cox, Herbert C. Kelman, Everett Mendelsohn, Augustus Richard Norton, Henry Steiner -
January 05, 2010
How Did the 2008 Economic Crisis Affect: Social and Political Solidarity in Europe?
By: Jennifer L. Hochschild -
September 05, 2009
If Democracies Need Informed Voters, Why Is It Democratic to Expand Enfranchisement?
By: Jennifer L. Hochschild -
September 05, 2009
The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana's Elections Revisited
By: Dirk Kohnert, Heinz Jockers, Paul Nugent -
August 05, 2009
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
By: Jeffery G. Williamson -
August 05, 2009
How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences
By: Stefanie Walter, Linda Maduz -
August 01, 2009
How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences: A Cross-National Analysis of Differences between Globalization Winners and Losers
By: Stefanie Walter, Linda Maduz -
July 05, 2009
Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
By: Sambit Bhattacharyya, Jeffery G. Williamson -
April 05, 2009
The Human Cost of Economic Crises
By: Marcus Alexander, Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche -
April 05, 2009
The Estimated Trade Effects of the Euro: Why Are They Below Those From Historical Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?
By: Jeffrey Frankel -
April 05, 2009
Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue in Climate Change Policy Proposals
By: Jeffrey A. Frankel -
April 05, 2009
Who Gets Bought? Vote Buying, Turnout Buying, and Other Strategies
By: Jordan Gans-Morse, Sebastian Mazzuca, Simeon Nichter -
March 05, 2009
Institutionalizing Cooperation: Public Goods Experiments in the Aftermath of Civil War
By: Fotini Christia, Marcus Alexander -
February 05, 2009
Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand
By: Filiz Garip -
February 05, 2009
Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
By: David S. Jacks, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson -
February 05, 2009
Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response
By: Jeffrey G. Williamson, Şevket Pamuk -
February 05, 2009
Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
By: Jeffrey G. Williamson, Timothy J. Hatton -
January 05, 2009
Practicing Peace, Living with War: Going Upriver in Colombia
By: Kimberly Theidon -
January 05, 2009
The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quantile Effects of Income and Education
By: Marcus Alexander, Matthew Harding, Carlos Lamarche -
December 05, 2008
Model Comparison and Simulation for Hierarchical Models: Analyzing Rural-Urban Migration in Thailand
By: Filiz Garip, Bruce Western -
July 05, 2008
Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China
By: Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, Yu Zheng -
July 05, 2008
Biofuels and Sustainable Development An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
By: Henry Lee, William C. Clark, Michael Devereux -
June 05, 2008
Outsourcing the Big Stick: The Consequences of Using Private Military Companies
By: Ulrich Petersohn -
June 05, 2008
Overcoming the Challenges to the Implementation of Green Chemistry
By: William C. Clark, Kira J. M. Matus, Paul T. Anastas, Kai Itameri-Kinter -
June 05, 2008
Remapping Inequality in Europe: The Net Effect of Regional Integration on Total Income Inequality in the European Union
By: Jason Beckfield -
May 05, 2008
The Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
By: Robert H. Bates -
April 05, 2008
Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering
By: Michael Kremer, David Clingingsmith, Asim Ijaz Khwaja -
February 05, 2008
Earning from History: Financial Markets and the Approach of World Wars
By: Niall Ferguson -
February 05, 2008
Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?
By: Kenneth Rogoff, Yu-chin Chen, Barbara Rossi -
February 05, 2008
Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang
By: Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador, Gita Gopinath -
February 05, 2008
Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975
By: Richard N. Cooper -
February 05, 2008
Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer -
February 01, 2008
Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
By: Jeffrey G. Williamson -
January 05, 2008
The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance
By: Kosuke Imai, Gary King, Clayton Nall -
January 05, 2008
Histories of Innocence: Post-War Stories in Peru
By: Kimberly Theidon -
January 05, 2008
Regionalization and Retrenchment: The Impact of European Integration on the Welfare State
By: Jason Beckfield -
May 01, 2007
Democracy, Technology, and Growth
By: Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina, Francesco Trebbi -
May 01, 2007
Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton -
April 01, 2007
The Power of the Family
By: Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano -
April 01, 2007
Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, Fabio Kanczuk -
April 01, 2007
Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal
By: Lakshmi Iyer, Do Quy-Toan -
March 01, 2007
Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms
By: Philippe Aghion, Thibault Fally, Stefano Scarpetta -
March 01, 2007
The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data
By: Laura Alfaro, Faisal Z. Ahmed -
January 01, 2007
Credit Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D Investment: Evidence from France
By: Philippe Aghion, Philippe Askenazy, Nicolas Berman, Gilbert Cette, Laurent Eymard -
December 14, 2006
Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil, and Armed Conflict in Colombia
By: Oeindrila Dube, Juan F. Vargas -
December 01, 2006
Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword: Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans
By: David P. Aldrich, Kevin Crook -
December 01, 2006
Technology and Labor Regulations
By: Joseph Zeira, Alberto Alesina -
August 02, 2006
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
By: Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt -
June 20, 2006
Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people’s preferences
By: Alberto Alesina, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln -
June 07, 2006
Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel Data?
By: Philippe Aghion, Ioana Marinescu -
May 01, 2006
Latinos and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: Jorge I. Domínguez -
April 01, 2006
Why Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation
By: Laura Alfaro, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Vadym Volosovych -
April 01, 2006
Sovereign Debt: Indexation and Maturity
By: Laura Alfaro, Fabio Kanczuk -
February 01, 2006
Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms
By: Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, Francesco Trebbi -
February 01, 2006
Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?
By: Alberto Alesina, Guido Tabellini -
February 01, 2006
Integrating Imputed Interest on the Stock of Equity Provisions into Business Valuation: A Discounted Cash Flow Approach
By: Stephan Frühling, Markus Schwaiger -
January 01, 2006
Traders, Teachers, and Tyrants: Democracy, Globalization, and Public Investment in Education
By: Ben Ansell -
August 01, 2005
Almost a Century of Central Bank Cooperation
By: Center for International Security and Cooperation -
July 01, 2005
‘Why Is There No NATO in Asia?’ The Normative Origins of Asian Multilateralism
By: Amitav Acharya -
May 01, 2003
Globalization and the Environment
By: Jeffrey A. Frankel -
January 01, 2003
The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.
By: Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur, John McHale -
September 01, 2002
Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa
By: Macartan Humphreys, Robert Bates -
September 01, 2002
A Proposal to Anchor Monetary Policy by the Price of the Export Commodity
By: Jeffrey Frankel, Ayako Saiki -
September 01, 2002
Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows
By: Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur, John McHale -
July 01, 2002
The Contested Governance of GM Foods: Implications for U.S.-EU Trade and the Developing World
By: Robert L. Paarlberg -
June 05, 2002
Toward an Uncivil Society? Contextualizing the Decline of Post-Soviet Russian Extremely Right-Wing Parties
By: Andreas Umland -
March 01, 2002
The Ignored Transition: Post-Communist State Development
By: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Pauline Jones Luong -
December 01, 2001
Indivisible Territory and Ethnic War
By: Monica Duffy Toft -
October 01, 2001
Banking Crises and the Effect of Political Checks and Balances on Special Interest Influence
By: Philip Keefer -
April 05, 2001
A Country-Driven Approach to the Phaseout of Ozone-Depleting Substances in Developing Countries
By: Rasmus Rasmusson, Christo Artusio, Olga Gassan-zade, Etienne Gonin, Joel Ngugi -
April 01, 2001
Liberal International Relations Theory: A Social Scientific Assessment
By: Andrew Moravcsik -
February 05, 2001
Linkage and Legalism in Institutions: Evidence From Agricultural Trade Negotiations
By: Christina Davis -
January 01, 2001
Paying for the Privilege of Bank of England Charters, 1694-1843
By: J. Lawrence Broz -
January 01, 2001
Organizing Violence
By: Robert Bates -
May 05, 2000
Does FDI Increase Firm Value in Emerging Markets?
By: Wi Saeng Kim -
February 05, 2000
Civil Society From Abroad: the Role of Foreign Assistance in the Democratization of Poland
By: Grzegorz Ekiert, Jan Kubik -
December 05, 1999
Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict
By: Richard N. Cooper -
December 05, 1998
Explaining the Emergence of Human Rights Regimes
By: Andrew Moravcsik -
October 05, 1998
International Capital Mobility and Monetary Politics in the U.S. Congress, 1960–1997
By: J. Lawrence Broz -
August 05, 1998
A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation
By: Andrew Moravcsik -
May 05, 1998
Negotiating Economic Transitions in Liberizing Polities
By: Frances Hagopian -
May 05, 1998
Curbed Markets?
By: Kellee S. Tsai -
February 05, 1998
The State in a Changing World: A Critique of the 1997 World Development Report
By: Devesh Kapur -
January 05, 1998
Explaining Patterns of GATT/WTO Trade Complaints
By: Christina R. Sevilla -
December 05, 1997
A Treaty on Global Climate Change: Problems and Prospects
By: Richard N. Cooper -
November 05, 1997
Conflict in Time and Space
By: Richard. Tucker, Nathaniel. Beck -
May 05, 1997
The Origins of Hungary's 1989 Electoral Law
By: John W. Schiemann, Kenneth Benoit