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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 1, pp. 51-83

from the developing world win election more often, while involvement in warfare lowers election probability. By contrast … international peace and security. Members vote on issues of global importance and consequently receive perks—election to the UNSC … predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …

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The Determinants of Election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - CESifo - 2012

international peace and security. Members vote on issues of global importance and consequently receive perks – election to the UNSC … predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not … candidates while the latter ratifies them. Using an original multiple discrete choice model to analyze a dataset of 180 elections …

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Legitimacy, humanitarian intervention, and international institutions

Kahler, Miles - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 10 (2011) 1, pp. 20-45

The legitimacy of humanitarian intervention has been contested for more than a century, yet pressure for such intervention persists. Normative evolution and institutional design have been closely linked since the first debates over humanitarian intervention more than a century ago. Three norms...

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Greening the security council: climate change as an emerging “threat to international peace and security”

Penny, Christopher - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 7 (2007) 1, pp. 35-71

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Piracy As A Threat To International Peace And Security

Varfolomeev, Anton A. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

The study focuses on specific issues in the system of international security related to modern-day piracy. The first part examines the adequacy of the classical approach treating piracy as a common crime with an international element, comparing contemporary piracy to other illegal activities...

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Focused power: Experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points

Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...

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Voting behavior in Indonesia from 1999 to 2014 : religious cleavage or economic performance?

Higashikata, Takayuki; Kawamura, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After … preference to abstention over the parties in some elections. From the point of view of retrospective economic voting, we found …

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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?

Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of...

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Ghana; Economic Development in a Democratic Environment

Harnack, Joachim; Leite, Sérgio Pereira.; Fabrizio, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature

Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the...

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