Este libro proporciona contribuciones que permiten un acercamiento solvente al nuevo
institucionalismo en las ciencias sociales y recoge aportaciones que se sitúan en la frontera …

Combining elements of economic reasoning and political science has proven to be very
useful for understanding the broad variation in economic development around the world. In …

Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties should locate at the electoral
mean. Recent research has found no evidence of such convergence. In order to explain non …

In spatial models of political competition in democracies, citizens vote for the party or
candidate that is the closest to their own ideological position, while in valence models …

Many formal models suggest that parties or candidates should locate at the electoral mean.
Yet, there is no consistent evidence of such convergence across political systems …

Argentine politics from 1955 to 1966 was characterized by the conflict between the Peronists
and the anti-Peronists. While each camp could veto the other's project, neither could …

The system transformation of Georgia has not yet resulted in institutional stability. The
system is functioning on a basis of the balance of power, which may evolve over time …

Recent events have focussed the worldps attention on how autocrats have sur& vived for so
long in countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and what triggers popular revolt. The …

Formal work on the electoral model often suggests that parties or candidates should locate
themselves at the electoral mean. Recent research has found no evidence of such …

We provide a stochastic electoral model of the US Presidential election. The availability of
smart phone and social media coupled with large data set on voters' personal characteristics …