Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and
international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to …

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of public opinion in sub-Saharan Africa. Based
on the Afrobarometer, a survey research project, it reveals what ordinary Africans think about …

Thriving markets require not only an appropriately designed economic system, but a secure
political foundation that places strong limits on the ability of the state to confiscate wealth …

A political leader's temptation to deny costly debts to past supporters is a central moral-
hazard problem in politics. This paper develops a game-theoretic model to probe the …

This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By
deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging …

The present article is a revision of democratic theory from the perspective of its inadequacies
to account for the new-and not so new-, democracies located outside the Northwestern …

DEMOCRACY endures only if it self-enforcing. It is not a contract because there are no third
parties to enforce it. To survive, democracy must be an equilibrium at least for those political …

The federal Constitution contains a set of rules that I will describe as the constitutional law of
congressional procedure. These are rules that directly regulate the internal decisionmaking …

Hume and Machiavelli compares the political thought of David Hume, usually seen as a
classical liberal theorist of the Enlightenment, and Niccolo Machiavelli, the founder of …