Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

Trades of money for political influence persist at every level of government. Not surprisingly,
governments themselves trade money for political support on the international stage …

We investigate whether elected members of the UN Security Council receive favorable
treatment from the World Bank, using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1970 …

We investigate whether temporary members of the United Nations Security Council receive
favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) using panel data for 197 …

Populism has been perhaps the most popular explanation for the difficulties that have been
besetting contemporary governments. But despite the intense interest in populism as a …

War and security foreign policies 152 Why states prefer certain military/strategic options over
others: the role of strategic culture 157 Preventing war: creating stable balances of power …

What explains the success and failure of radical right parties over time and across
countries? This article presents a new theory of the radical right that emphasizes its reactive …

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics:
coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the …

Focusing on the rising support for the populist right in Eastern Europe, this book examines
how anger and resentment towards minorities is being utilized in politics. Bustikova details …