A new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology investigates how
political systems and priorities shape health inequities. To advance—and better integrate …

The efficient operation and expansion of infrastructures in developing countries is crucial for
growth and poverty reduction. However, recent reforms aimed at improving the performance …

This study proposes that promarket reforms positively affect firms' profitability in developing
countries because the accompanying improvements in external monitoring decrease firms' …

... it is thanks to works like this one that we can make progress in the understanding of the
phenomenon of independent regulatory authorities in Europe and elsewhere. Competition …

In 1999 the Helsinki Summit officially positioned Turkey within the European Union (EU)
enlargement process. Since then, Turkey has been undergoing an extraordinary political …

We examine the antecedents and consequences in developing countries of creating a
national stock exchange, a core technology of financial globalization. We study local …

The current crisis of neoliberalism is calling into question the relevance of key international
institutions. We analyze the origins, nature, and possible impacts of the crisis through …

What accounts for the spread of political protest and contention across countries? Analyzing
the wildfire of attempted revolutions in 1848, the present article assesses four causal …

The increase in health care expenditures is a major problem of all welfare states. To counter
this trend, since the early 1980s, most OECD countries have changed the way hospitals are …

We studied three potential causal mechanisms through which network dynamics of
intergovernmental organizations (IGO) might cause convergence in domestic economic …