In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United … Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting …’s voting with the United States. In this paper we explore how leadership change affects UNGA voting. Using differences between …

dimensions, but also development policy, world trade, international migration and human rights. The book focuses on the ILO … global forum for addressing these issues. The study puts in perspective the manifold ways in which the ILO has helped …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in centralized and decentralized democracies. We find that the electoral …