Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Government"
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Capacity, Commitment, and Compliance
(SAGE Publications, 2002)Why should governments delegate decision-making authority over territorial issues to an international institution? This study argues that governments are motivated to reach territorial solutions to reduce the opportunity ... -
Causal Mediation Analysis
(SAGE Publications, 2012-01)Estimating the mechanisms that connect explanatory variables with the explained variable, also known as "mediation analysis," is central to a variety of social-science fields, especially psychology, and increasingly to ... -
Causes of Campus Calm: Scaling China's Ivory Tower
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A Cautionary Note about the Frame of Peril and Crisis in Human Rights Activism
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cem: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata
(StataCorp, 2010)This paper introduces a Stata implementation of Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM), a new method for improving the estimation of causal effects by reducing imbalance in co-variates between treated and control groups. CEM is ... -
CEM: Software for Coarsened Exact Matching
(American Statistical Association, 2009)This program is designed to improve causal inference via a method of matching that is widely applicable in observational data and easy to understand and use (if you understand how to draw a histogram, you will understand ... -
Certainty and War
(2016-05-11)Does greater certainty about an adversary’s attributes cause peace? What states believe they can secure through force dictates the diplomatic settlements they will accept. In prevailing accounts which preclude assessment ... -
The Challenge of Conflict of Interest in Medicine
(Elsevier, 2009)The expanding relationships between industry and medicine have produced great benefits. Industry support for medical research has led to important therapeutic breakthroughs. Such support has helped medical education at all ... -
Challenging Group-based Segregation and Isolation: Whether and Why
(Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2017-04)Liberal polities are as committed to ending segregation and isolation in principle as they are engaged in maintaining them in practice. That contradiction is partly explained by the perennial gap between ideals and practices; ... -
Challenging The Mandate Of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China
(Informa UK Limited, 2001)Arguing that popular protest has played an unusual role in bestowing political legitimacy in China, this article traces continuities in state responses to protest move- ments from imperial days to the present. The author ... -
The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research
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The Changing Role of the State in Liberal Market Economies
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The Changing Value of Seniority in the U.S. House: Conditional Party Government Revised
(University of Chicago Press, 2014)In this paper we argue that institutional changes to the seniority system have electoral consequences to incumbents. Building on the theory of Conditional Party Government, we argue that the consolidation of power in the ... -
The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-01)What factors determine firms' attitudes toward trade policy? This paper considers producers' policy preferences and political behavior in light of two key patterns in modern international trade: industries that face import ... -
China Since Tiananmen: A New Rights Consciousness?
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)Despite the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Uprising of 1989, the frequency of popular protest in China has by all accounts escalated steadily over the ensuing two decades. These protests—increasingly articulated in a ... -
Chinese Conceptions of “Rights”: From Mencius to Mao—and Now
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)The recent explosion of popular protest in China, often framed as a demand for the fulfillment of “rights,” has captured widespread attention. Some observers interpret the protests as signs of a “moral vacuum.” Others see ... -
The Choice for Multilateralism: Foreign Aid and American Foreign Policy
(Springer Nature, 2012-09-15)Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principal-agent model in which states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates observable hypotheses regarding the reasons ... -
Choosing Your Neighbors: Networks of Diffusion in International Relations
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09-26)In examining the discussion of social and political phenomena like regime transition, conflict, and policy change, scholars routinely make choices about how proximity is defined and which neighbors should be considered ... -
Citizen Contention and Campus Calm: The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society
(Events Pub. Co, 2014)Contrary to conventional predictions, the growth of protest and civil society in contemporary China seems more conducive to the resilience of authoritarianism than to imminent democratization. -
Citizens of the Market: New Forms of International Migration and their Consequences for People, Parties and Political Systems
(2014-02-25)How does high-mobility migration affect politics in the migrants' countries of origin? This dissertation examines the socio-political effects of intra-EU migrations using quantitative and qualitative data from Romania and ...