Does democracy improve the quality of life for its citizens? Scholars have long assumed that
it does, but recent research has called this orthodoxy into question. This article reviews this …

We study the effect of US food aid on conflict in recipient countries. Our analysis exploits
time variation in food aid shipments due to changes in US wheat production and cross …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and
democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run …

Against the current consensus among comparative political economists, we argue that
inequality matters for redistributive politics in advanced capitalist societies, but it is the …

Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable
knowledge about the factors which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad …

Peer performance can influence the adoption of financial innovations and investment styles.
We present evidence of this type of social influence: recent stock returns that local peers …

Globalization critics argue that international trade spurs a race to the bottom among national
environmental standards. ISO 14001 is the most widely adopted voluntary environmental …

This article explores the impact of economic globalization on workers' rights in developing
countries. The authors hypothesize that the impact of globalization on labor rights depends …

This second edition of Doing Research in Political Science is a thoroughly revised and
updated version of the book that was originally published in 1999. In revising this edition we …