During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid
government of lobbyists' undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change …

We analyze vote buying in Argentina—the payment by political parties of minor benefits
(food, clothing, cash) to citizens in exchange for their votes. How widespread is vote buying …

Globalization critics argue that international trade spurs a race to the bottom among national
environmental standards. ISO 14001 is the most widely adopted voluntary environmental …

When modeling regional policy diffusion effects, scholars have traditionally made appeals to
both social learning and economic competition as causes of diffusion. In their empirical …

Die vergleichende Politikwissenschaft ist eine Teildisziplin der Politikwissenschaft, deren
Selbstverständnis sich durch die vergleichende Methode ergibt. Oftmals ist die …

In this paper I use the Bush Administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
scores—a numerical measure of federal program performance—to analyze the relationship …

This study examines two ways by which education might affect the probability of civil war
onset. First, educational investment provides a strong signal to the people that the …

In new democracies party systems are often young, so partisan cues and roots in the
electorate tend to be weak. The results, in many instances, include volatile campaigns with …

Competition to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) creates opportunities for multinational
enterprises (MNEs) to diffuse corporate management practices from their countries-of-origin …

We examine the 'resource curse'using new data on historic resource stocks and an
improved econometric methodology. The paper distinguishes between resource abundance …