This study examines the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often suggested that England in this period grew strikingly confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Indeed, merchants, inventors, and others promised to achieve immense profit...

Macro-level research on dynamic policy representation has been involved with political parties' move assuming some kind of issue voting, which in turn has been tested using real micro-level datasets. If we are to theorize parties' move, naturally we should make an assumption about how change in...

This study explores how individuals' preference on redistribution policy can be explained. In doing this, we especially assume that such a preference should reflect the people's evaluation on a status of society which is an outcome of public policy. Usually in existing studies, redistributive...