In electoral autocracies, why do some people actively support political parties while others
choose to not get involved in politics? Further, what differentiates those who choose to …

This paper investigates the effect that remittances have on government expenditures on
human capital within a large panel of developing countries. Remittances reduce government …

We examine whether social media enhances democracy using cross-sectional data from
145 countries. We used Facebook penetration as a proxy for social media. Also, based on …

Rising income inequality has recently garnered intensive attention owing to its significance
in theory and practice. This has rendered the mechanism through which inequality can be …

We study how economic crises relate to the likelihood of experiencing regime changes 'from
within'; that is, transitions brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime …

Deliberate non-enforcement of the law has been analyzed as a policy tool to redistribute
income. I show that it also responds to political incentives for the provision of insurance …

Despite the centrality of promise keeping to representation, we know little about how it is
affected by economic globalization, which is one of the modern world's defining …

Since the mid-2000s, democratization has slowed, stopped, and even reversed across the
world. At the same time, societies have become more oriented toward free markets as …

Ruling party strength is often associated with positive outcomes in autocracies, but we know
little about how the effects of party strength differ across party types or which feature of party …

We propose a theory of social norms (or conventions) that implement substantial levels of
inequality between men and women, ethnic groups, and classes and that persist over long …