This paper analyzes an understudied and contested form of sovereign theft, transfer restriction, which has supplanted expropriation as the most ubiquitous and costly type of international property rights violation. Veto-player-type constraints curtail governments' ability to engage in outright...

The primary legacy of Senator James G. Blaine of Maine was the enshrinement of "anti-aid" amendments in the constitutions of 39 U.S. states. These so-called "Blaine Amendments" prohibit government funds from supporting "sectarian" schools and often religious organizations. In Blaine's day,...

Two highly controversial issues in the field of K-12 education in the U.S. are special education and parental school choice. Those two policy concerns converge surrounding the question of what proportion of students in school voucher programs compared to public schools have education-related...

Arguing that an ecological or ecosystem view is vital for understanding the complex and messy global policy space for internet governance, this paper provides a model and raises issues regarding “representation’ in this policy space. It examines questions of informal (non-electoral)...

Based on data from the 2011 Citizen Political Ambition Study - a national survey of nearly 4,000 “potential candidates” for all levels of office - we provide the first thorough analysis of the manner in which traditional family arrangements affect the initial decision to run for office....

Over the past several decades, a substantial body of research has accrued demonstrating how important workforce diversity is to public organizations. Yet, despite its apparent importance, research on workforce diversity has been relatively narrow in scope and frequently fails to link diversity...

We study repeated legislative bargaining in an assembly that chooses its bargaining rules endogenously, and whose members face an election after each legislative term. An agenda protocol or bargaining rule assigns to each legislator a probability of being recognized to make a policy proposal in...

The Third Wave of democratization brought regime transitions to scores of nations since 1974, but empirical measures in recent years have shown unmistakable reversions to authoritarianism by some countries. The 132 new constitutions promulgated in 118 countries during that time played...

This paper attempts to explain both the economic and the political development of South Korea applying the limited and open access orders framework proposed by North, Weingast, and Wallis (2009). During the second half of the 20th century South Korea transformed itself from a poor nation to a...

This paper argues that the exclusion of women from political offices in Mexico and Latin America’s customary law communities, more broadly, is much more than a problem of the purported patriarchal cultures of indigenous and rural communities. We claim, based on a comprehensive survey of 466...