This study focuses on military experienced executives (CEO and chairman) and their effect
on two types of firm environmental strategy: firm pollution and environmental innovation …

The book offers a comparative analysis of center-region relations in Russia and in China.
The authors focus in particular on fiscal ties and incentives, bureaucratic and local …

Scholars across international relations (IR) debate the role military experience plays in elite
decision-making. I argue there are two critical problems with this debate. First, it fails to …

While evidence from international security and civil-military relations shows that elites with
military experience have distinct policy preferences from elites who have not served in the …

We estimate the causal impact of military conscription on long-term beliefs and personality
traits. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we exploit the conscription lottery in …

By exploiting both the unique institutional setting of the Chinese political system and the
quasi-experimental features of a massive nationwide rural rustication movement in China …

This paper investigates whether politicians who have plagiarized their PhD dissertations
perform worse in running their polities than those who have not committed plagiarism. We …

This paper exploits the presence of Congressional experience in US governors that permits
the identification of the relationship between political career experience and …

How do politicians in post-war societies talk about the past war? How do they discursively
represent vulnerable social groups created by the conflict? Does the nature of this …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage
when they run for office in safe rather than in contested districts using new data based on a …