Recent scholarship has started to find more and more evidence that refugees in their plight also contribute to the spread of conflict across borders. Relatively little is known, however, about whether internally displaced persons (IDPs) lead through similar mechanisms to the spread of conflict...

In various studies, voting behavior in international organizations (most notably the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)) is used to infer the similarity of foreign policy preferences of member states. Most such measures ignore, however, that particular co-voting patterns may appear simply...

Bicameralism introduces additional complexities into the analysis of sophisticated voting by members of parliament (MPs). The paper proposes a general game-theoretical model to assess the conditions under which MPs may engage in strategic behavior. The implications suggest that these conditions...