Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt on how universal these patterns are. We contribute...

Habit formation theory and the transformative voting hypothesis both imply that voting has downstream consequences for turnout and political involvement. Although several studies have applied causal research designs to study this question, the long-run evidence is extremely limited, especially...

The paper is concerned with private military contractors, their expanding use and the challenges this poses to a system in which private actors – at least so far – have been considered to be acting outside of existing international accountability structures. The paper proceeds from a brief...

The article highlights jurisdictional aspects of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – in terms of substance matter jurisdiction, temporal jurisdiction as well as territorial / personal jurisdiction. It furthermore analyzes the limitations on the jurisdiction of the ICC, paying close...

While we know a lot about the behaviour of individual legislative representatives, we have a less developed understanding of what their constituents want them to do. This paper employs a novel survey experiment to examine what British citizens expect from their Member of Parliament. Using a...