Iraq is a country with exceptional natural resource wealth, but also consistent political turbulence manifested by high levels of state corruption, patronage networks, weak …
In many observational studies, the true treatment assignment mechanism is not individualistic, allowing the probability of treatment of a unit to depend on quantities beyond …
F Keller - An informal network among Chinese Communist Elites, 1982 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper argues and provides evidence for how social network analysis can explain the internal workings of non-democratic regimes. It provides the intuition for a theory that relates …
Country experts often search for informal ties to a patron when explaining why some political elites make it into a regime's inner circle. This paper shows that in the case of the members …