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Political Christianity: Internal Organization, Preferences and Church Political Activity
(2014-12-11)This dissertation examines the role of internal structure of religious organizations in influencing these organizations’ interactions with incumbent governments and ultimately determining the political activities of religious ... -
Political Competition in Weak States
(Blackwell Publishing, 2001)In the developing areas, politics is often undemocratic, states lack a monopoly over violence, and politicians play upon cultural identities. To analyze politics in such settings, we develop a model in which politicians ... -
Political Conflict and State Failure
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Political Context, Organizational Mission, and the Quality of Social Services: Insights from the Health Sector in Lebanon
(Elsevier BV, 2017-10)Non-state actors are important providers of social welfare. In parts of the Middle East, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and other regions, religious charities and parties and NGOs have taken on this role, with some preceding ... -
The Political Contingency of Public Opinion, or What Shall We Make of the Declining Faith of Middle-Class African Americans?
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Political Cycles in OECD Economies
(Blackwell Publishing, 1992)This paper studies whether the dynamic behaviour of GNP growth, unemployment and inflation is systematically affected by the timing of elections and of changes of governments. The sample includes the last three decades in ... -
Political Demands, Political Opportunities: Explaining the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties
(Oxford University Press, 1999)Using qualitative comparative analysis, we examine why left-libertarian parties, associated with environmental and other "new social movements," have been relatively successful in some western democracies but not others. ... -
Political Designs: Architecture and Urban Renewal in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1973
(2012-09-17)This dissertation considers the impact of the U.S. civil rights movement on postwar urban design and urban policy, looking specifically at the case of urban renewal, a federal program of urban reconstruction intended to ... -
Political Ecologies and the Transformation of Landscape in the Early Modern Delaware Valley
(2024-03-12)This dissertation uses the concept of political ecology to explore the nature of colonization and the subsequent landscape transformation in the early modern Delaware Valley. The question of how European colonization changed ... -
Political Economy Models of Elections
(Annual Reviews, 2011)We review a large formal literature on economic models of voting and electoral politics. We discuss two broad classes of model: those focusing on preference aggregation and those that look at elections as mechanisms of ... -
The Political Economy of Adjustment and Rebalancing
(Elsevier BV, 2015)Debt and balance of payments crises are politically controversial. In the aftermath of such crises, conflict typically breaks out over how the burden of adjustment will be distributed. There is international conflict, ... -
Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
(World Bank, 2009)This paper uses new data on agricultural policy interventions to examine the political economy of agricultural trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Historically, African governments have discriminated against agricultural ... -
Political Economy of Committee Voting and Its Application
(2013-09-27)This dissertation consists of three essays on information aggregation in committees and its application. The first essay analyzes how the distribution of votes affects the accuracy of group decisions. In a weighted voting ... -
The Political Economy of Dollarization: Domestic and International Factors
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The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in Latin America: An Analytical Overview
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)Exchange rates have been central to the course of economic development in Latin America for decades. From the heyday of import substitution in the 1960s to the rapid expansion of foreign debt in the 1970s, from the debt ... -
The political economy of exchange rate regimes in transition economies
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2010)We show that political economy factors play an important role in shaping the exchange rate policies of transition economies. We argue that tradables producers prefer a floating rate to allow active exchange rate policy to ... -
The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
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The Political Economy of Federal Systems in Times of Economic Crisis
(2015-10-06)This dissertation examines how political institutions, as dynamically affected by voters and legislatures, mediate financial market reactions to severe fiscal shocks. This work uses as its case studies the experience of ... -
The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments
(Brookings Institution Press, 1998) -
The Political Economy of International Monetary Policy Coordination
(Academic Press, 2013)