Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

“Naming and shaming” is a popular strategy to enforce international human rights norms
and laws. Nongovernmental organizations, news media, and international organizations …

Does increased democracy promote or jeopardize foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to
less-developed countries? We argue that democratic institutions have conflicting effects on …

Rising international trade flows are a primary component of globalization. The liberalization
of trade policy in many developing countries has helped foster the growth of these flows …

Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data
on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude …

In a relatively small but growing body of literature in political science and environmental
studies, scholars debate the effect of democracy on environmental degradation. Some …

Nontax revenues make up a substantial amount of government revenue around the world,
though scholars usually focus on individual sources of such revenue (for example, foreign …

Although spatial econometrics is being used more frequently in political science, most
applications are still based on geographic notions of distance. Here we argue that it is often …

What explains the substantial variation in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lending
policies over time and across cases? Some scholars argue that the IMF is the servant of the …

Past research on democracy and politicalcorruption produced mixed results becauseof
differences in sampling and analyticalmethods. Moreover, an important shortcominghas …