Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both
transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents …

Independent central banks prefer balanced budgets due to the long-run connection between
deficits and inflation, and can enforce their preference through interest rate increases and …

Political science and public policy scholars have long emphasised the importance of
understanding institutional change and policy entrepreneurship. This review article is a …

This book explores the politics, institutional dynamics, and outcomes of neoliberal
restructuring in Israel. It puts forward a bold proposition: that the very creation of a neoliberal …

Each year the Dutch authorities categorize scores of people as being “out of procedure”(
uitgeprocedeerd). These are mostly “failed asylum seekers” who have exhausted all legal …

The vast majority of the extant literature on trade and conflict focuses on bilateral trade to
determine whether commerce has a pacifying effect upon pairs of states. We argue that this …

This paper addresses the issue of impacts of central banks' independence on stock market
volatility. Using a simple theoretical macroeconomic model, we analytically find a positive …

Existing scholarship on the rise of China and Chinese foreign policy has largely neglected to
explain one puzzling phenomenon—although China's network position in the global …

International political economy identifies declining nominal interest rates, securitization, and
financial liberalization as drivers of rising housing prices. Despite witnessing these common …

Monetary delegation to independent central banks is the institutional standard for
responsible monetary policy making. Governments overcome their own high inflation biases …