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Jun 17, 2019
Wasserfallen, Fabio, 2019, "Global Diffusion, Policy Flexibility, and Inflation Targeting", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OZTK8P, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:V7xVVCESFVf8j/eRuHBbBA== [fileUNF]
A diverse group of over 30 countries located all over the world—such as the UK, Colombia, and Ghana—introduced inflation targeting, which is a monetary policy that seeks to control inflation through a pre- announced target. Fully institutionalized democracies adopted the policy first because the core features of inflation targeting are con- sistent... |
Jun 17, 2019
Schutte, Sebastian, 2019, "Politics or prejudice? Explaining individual-level hostilities in India’s Hindu-Muslim conflict", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VGSSNX, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Understanding the micro-motives for political violence remains an important challenge to contemporary peace research. This paper contributes to this goal in two ways. First and most importantly, it addresses the following research question: what explains hostile sentiments between Hindus and Muslims in cities all across India? To this end, three hi... |
Mar 19, 2019
Heinrich, Tobias; Chiba, Daina, 2019, "Colonial legacy and foreign aid: Decomposing the colonial bias", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PAHRCK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:DoZITr5s3KSh+zO+3UojiQ== [fileUNF]
It is well-known that donors give considerably more foreign aid to former colonies than to countries lacking past colonial ties. Unfortunately, we know relatively little about why this is the case. For one, there is almost never a theoretical justification for the inclusion of colonial history in statistical models. For the other, the only explicit... |
Mar 8, 2019
Tellez, Juan; Roberts, Jordan, 2019, "The Rise of the Islamic State and Changing Patterns of Cooperation in the Middle East", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/64PBG7, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:S/VmMre9X/OJbRNm9mzIYg== [fileUNF]
Interstate relations are highly interdependent: a change in relations between a pair of states can impact the relationship each of those states has with third parties, as well as relations among those third party states. This is particularly salient in cases where emerging security threats have the potential to destabilize existing patterns of inte... |
Mar 8, 2019
Phayal, Anup, 2019, "UN Troop Deployment and Preventing Violence Against Civilians in Darfur", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2YFNRD, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Does the presence of UN peacekeeping force lower civilian fatalities at the local level? If it does, is it because of their coercive military capacity or for other reasons such as their roles in monitoring and reporting violent atrocities? To explore these questions, I study the deployment of peacekeeping units in Darfur and its impact on violence... |
Mar 8, 2019
Breen, Michael; Egan, Patrick, 2019, "The Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending: Evidence from Sectoral FDI Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QIFE4H, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:wwucCIJYUKzkiHNAayPgTA== [fileUNF]
Country partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ideally rare and short in duration. States turn to the IMF in times of economic crisis, which usually involve some combination of increasing national debt, balance of payments problems, and dwindling foreign reserves. The conditional loans provided by the IMF serve as a temporary sol... |
Mar 8, 2019
Osorio, Javier; Pavon, Viveca; Holmes, Jennifer; Salam, Sayeed; Brandt, Patrick T.; Khan, Latifur, 2019, "Translating CAMEO Verbs for Automated Coding of Event Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EAL0CY, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) framework is the industry standard for computerized event coding that produce massive data on political conflict at a global scale. However, despite their focus on conflict in foreign locations, most cod- ing efforts have the limitation of exclusively relying on text written in English. This pa-... |
Mar 8, 2019
Kreps, Sarah; Roblin, Stephen, 2019, "Treatment Format and External Validity in International Relations Experiments", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CXMSA0, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:B2Wc4VsvcZh/xL6aVMdt6w== [fileUNF]
Political scientists use short vignettes or mock news stories to embed treatments in experimental survey designs. We investigate whether the choice of medium entails a trade-off between internal and external validity. On the one hand, short vignettes may improve internal validity by isolating key variables without overloading respondents with infor... |
Mar 8, 2019
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Stubbs, Thomas; Kentikelenis, Alexander; King, Lawrence, 2019, "The political economy of labor market deregulation during IMF interventions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HQ2ZKH, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GALuSzlK0HLc0D0pwe1G/g== [fileUNF]
This study examines the relationship between policy interventions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and de jure labor rights. Combining two novel datasets with unprecedented country-year coverage—leximetric data on labor laws and disaggregated data on IMF conditionality—our analysis of up to 70 developing countries from 1980 to 2014 demonstr... |
Mar 8, 2019
Brian Phillips, 2019, "Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation, International Cooperation, and Terrorism", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TWFHVL, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:i/I+FqZOrdvYaPL9BBTx7A== [fileUNF]
How does branding militant groups as “foreign terrorist organizations” affect them? Beyond its obvious policy importance, this question speaks to debates about counterterrorism, terrorism financing, and organizational dynamics of subnational violence. This article analyzes Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation, a key policy used by the U... |