Despite the importance of politicians, empirical work rarely examines who decides to enter
politics and why. This survey presents conceptual issues in measuring political entry; …

Corporate political connections (CPCs)—ties that firms forge with political actors—directly
affect firms, political actors, and various stakeholders in societies. This topic has been …

Multiplicative interaction models are widely used in social science to examine whether the
relationship between an outcome and an independent variable changes with a moderating …

While fixed effects (FE) models are often employed to address potential omitted variables,
we argue that these models' real utility is in isolating a particular dimension of variance from …

Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and
why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in …

Leveraging as a quasi-natural experiment the staggered passage of universal demand laws,
which raise the difficulty of shareholder lawsuits, we examine the effect of shareholder …

Consultative authoritarianism challenges existing conceptions of nondemocratic
governance. Citizen participation channels are designed to improve policymaking and …

Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its
welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road construction programme in …

Building a sustainable organization is one of the most important goals in business. To build
sustainability, firms need to have strong social commitment to establish value‐creating …

Political decentralization is often argued to strengthen political accountability by bringing
government closer to the people. Social and civic institutions at the local level, such as …