The aim of this article is to survey the huge literature that has emerged in the last four
decades following Nordhaus's (Rev Econ Stud 42 (2): 169–190, 1975) publication on …

▪ Abstract Policy makers in democracies have strong partisan and electoral incentives
regarding the amount, nature, and timing of economic-policy activity. Given these incentives …

“A short review cannot convey the rich variety of arguments and data Bartels deploys in
making his case…. Bartels shows that social issues do not create as strong a headwind …

Snowdon and Vane s book is extremely welcome. Indeed the authors examine, compare,
and evaluate the evolution of the major rival stories comprising contemporary …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

In this study, the “rally effect”—the propensity for the American public to put aside political
differences and support the president during international crises—is measured by …

In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public
policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of …

This book presents a systematic reassessment of the theoretical and empirical foundations
of the democratic peace literature. Three distinct theoretical models of how domestic political …

The book shows how such multiple interactions among political-economic institutions and
interests induce differing policy choices and effects across democracies; how to model such …

Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low;
as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors …