This article introduces the special issue on the political economy of the Euro crisis, which
aims to improve our understanding of the causes, consequences, and implications of the …

Among the many drivers of health inequities, this article focuses on important, yet
insufficiently understood, international-level determinants: economic globalization and the …

Following calls for a more disaggregated approach to studying the consequences of IMF
programs, scholars have developed new datasets of IMF-mandated policy reforms, or …

This article highlights an important yet insufficiently understood international-level
determinant of inequality in the developing world: structural adjustment programs by the …

The World Bank, under the stewardship of the United States, stands out as the global leader
among international development organizations. Does China's establishment of the Asian …

The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by
distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to …

The effects of austerity in response to financial crises are widely contested and assumed to
cause significant electoral backlash. Nonetheless, governments routinely adopt austerity …

How do governments choose between bilateral and multilateral foreign policy? We argue
that powerful governments can exploit their influence over multilateral organizations to hide …

We present two new databases we have constructed to explore the electoral consequences
of structural economic policy reforms. One database measures reforms in domestic finance …

The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous
economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an …