Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Government"
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Adverse selection and growth under IMF programs
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013)The dominant approach to studying the effects of IMF programs has emphasized moral hazard, but we find that adverse selection has more impressive effects. We propose a novel strategic selection model to study the growth ... -
After the Crisis: Domestic Politics and the Challenge of Rebalancing
(Center for Economic Policy Research, 2009) -
After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2012) -
The Agrarian Origins of Mau Mau: A Structural Account
(Published for the Agricultural History Society by the University of California Press, 1987) -
Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter?
(Springer Verlag, 2006)Alexis de Tocqueville believed that “democratic peoples’... passion for equality is ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible.” This article examines whether and under what conditions residents of the United States ... -
America in the World Economy: From the American Century to Globalization
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The American Public's Energy Choice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012)Public opinion about energy can be understood in a uni½ed framework. First, people evaluate key attributes of energy sources, particularly a fuel’s cost and environmental harms. Americans, for example, view coal as relatively ... -
Americans' Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans' unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent years, the concept has been ... -
Analytic Narratives Revisited
(Duke University Press, 2000) -
The Analytical Narrative Project
(Cambridge University Press, 2000) -
Anti-Americanism and Anti-Interventionism in Arabic Twitter Discourses
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015-03)Systematic investigation of attitudes expressed in Arabic on Twitter towards the United States and Iran during 2012-13 shows how the analysis of social media can illuminate the politics of contemporary political discourses ... -
'Anti-Benthamism': Utilitarianism and the French Liberal Tradition
(Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic?
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013-12-31) -
Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?
(Cambridge University Press, 1997) -
Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem
(British Medical Association, 2002)Armed conflict between warring states and groups within states have been major causes of ill health and mortality for most of human history. Conflict obviously causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, but also health ... -
Arms Diffusion and War
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The authors present a model of the relationship between the spread of new military technologies and the occurrence of war. A new technology could shift the balance of power, causing anticipatory war as one side tries to ... -
Asking About Numbers: Why and How
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)Survey questions about quantities offer a number of advantages over more common qualitative questions. However, concerns about survey respondents’ abilities to accurately report numbers have limited the use of quantitative ... -
An Automated Information Extraction Tool for International Conflict Data with Performance as Good as Human Coders: A Rare Events Evaluation Design
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Avoiding Randomization Failure in Program Evaluation, with Application to the Medicare Health Support Program
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)We highlight common problems in the application of random treatment assignment in large-scale program evaluation. Random assignment is the defining feature of modern experimental design, yet errors in design, implementation, ... -
Barons' Wars, under Other Names": Feudalism, Royalism, and the American Founding
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)The Machiavellian Moment was largely responsible for establishing what remains the dominant understanding of American Revolutionary ideology. Patriots, on this account, were radical whigs; their great preoccupation was a ...