We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective … that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of …

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

find a positive intergenerational transmission of right-wing extremist party affinity for sons, but not for daughters …. Compared to the intergenerational correlation of other party affinities, the high association between fathers' and sons' right …

After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start … resources, information and opportunities provided by former party membership or because people with specific individual … attributes were more likely to become party members (self-selection). This study is the first to separate the causal effect of …

In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate …

voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions … the preferences of specific partisan groups with their preferred party's position on the policy under consideration …

parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy which has seen the rise of the anti-immigration party Lega …