The Commission of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western Pacific Ocean (WCPFC) manages fish stocks of significant financial and ecological value across an area of the Pacific Ocean comprising 20% of Earth. WCPFC members, however, have...

This paper examines how election outcomes affect individual economic expectations. In particular, we are interested in how differences in economic individualism change the relationship between election outcomes and individual expectations for personal economic well-being. We hypothesize that...

There is a longstanding academic debate regarding whether local governments can meaningfully shape their long run fortunes through their own policymaking, or whether the autonomy of localities is swamped by larger macroeconomic forces. In the arena of development policy, specifically, some...

The relationship between environmentalism and land use is increasingly salient in many communities. In this paper we examine how attitudes toward the environment —- as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (Duncan et al. 2007 —- and contact with farmers and agribusiness —- as measured by...