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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country characteristics. Using individual survey data, we find that political participation is more responsive to schooling in land-abundant countries and less responsive in human...
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behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in centralized and decentralized democracies. We find that the electoral …
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This chapter surveys research on the demand for protectionism as well as theoretical and empirical work on the (i) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent trend is mutual feedbacks between commercial policy on...
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This paper measures the causal effect of coalition vs. single-party governments on fiscal policies using a data set of 396 municipalities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the time period 1985-2004. Using a regression discontinuity design to take the endogeneity of the type of...
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