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Jun 17, 2017
Jeff D. Colgan, 2017, "Where Is International Relations Going? Evidence from Graduate Training", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/65MCAE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:p+BOa/gpfnoApzXT8mShFA== [fileUNF]
Recent debates about the state of International Relations (IR) raise the possibility that the field is losing its theoretical innovativeness due to professional incentives to churn out publications. Yet the claims made about IR far outstrip the availability of empirical data. Important assertions derive from a handful of examples rather than system... |
Jun 17, 2017
Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati; Indra De Soysa, 2017, "Do Resource-Wealthy Rulers Adopt Transparency-Promoting Laws?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZZZPM7, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:60N0Dywb356SaoEGI5kH9A== [fileUNF]
Some argue that the right kinds of institutions mitigate, or even prevent, the development of “natural resource curses.” Rulers with access to resource wealth, however, are unlikely to adopt such institutions, because doing so would undermine their discretionary power. We examine this proposition by testing whether countries with access to natural... |
Jun 16, 2017
Edward D. Mansfield, 2017, "The Political Economy of the Itching Palm: An Analysis of Tipping Norms", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P0BKUW, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In this paper, I conduct the first cross-national study of the political economy of gratuities. Existing efforts to explain cross-national variations in tipping either approach this topic from a social-psychological or an economic perspective. In contrast, I argue that the diffusion of American tipping norms contributes to cross-national tipping pa... |
May 17, 2017
Tomashevskiy, Andrey, 2017, "Capital Preferences: International Capital and Government Partisanship", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/II6BPW, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1ESVkqUT4KSPhQXD0ew/sQ== [fileUNF]
Many argue that government partisanship influences the size of investment flows into stocks and bonds. But existing literature tells us little about how international capital flows influence election outcomes. I argue that passive investment into stocks, bonds, and other debt instruments—in other words, portfolio investments—increases political con... |
May 17, 2017
Wellhausen, Rachel L., 2017, "Bondholders vs. Direct Investors? Competing Responses to Expropriation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5AIPK8, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:qDrM8fg9pOvAJJhBFk5DvA== [fileUNF]
We often presume that international financial actors have the same preferences, but this paper asks whether the property rights of foreign direct investors matter to sovereign bondholders. When governments expropriate direct investors, different investors' preferences could align over property rights issues. However, bondholders likely take positiv... |
May 17, 2017
Greig, J. Michael, 2017, "Rebels at the Gates: Civil War Battle Locations, Movements, and Openings for Diplomacy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VJH91B, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:EdOcbPEX/ttHPlQxCHKwrA== [fileUNF]
In this paper, I build upon the conflict management, civil war, and bargaining literatures to develop and test a theoretical model that links openings for diplomacy to where civil war battles occur and how these locations change over time. I argue that the locations and movements of civil war battles provide information to both governments and rebe... |
May 17, 2017
McLauchlin, Theodore, 2017, "Desertion and Collective Action in Civil Wars", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WWEAUB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:wkhP6h02jeigMeR8JVe3aQ== [fileUNF]
This article examines the impact of military unit composition on desertion in civil wars. I argue that military units face an increased risk of desertion if they cannot develop norms of cooperation. This is a challenging task in the context of divided and ambiguous individual loyalties found in civil wars. Norms of cooperation emerge, above all, fr... |
May 16, 2017
Dancy, Geoff; Michel, Verónica, 2017, "Human Rights Enforcement from Below: Private Actors and Prosecutorial Momentum in Latin America and Europe", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T0G0NU, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:M7G5oIp1MZJzlmfH5YhHYw== [fileUNF]
Over the last three decades, thousands of prosecutions for human rights abuses have progressed through domestic courts, a puzzling fact considering that state leaders have little incentive to punish their own agents. Previous studies have advanced rational-choice or sociological-institutionalist accounts of this phenomenon, emphasizing the role of... |
May 16, 2017
Ross, Michael L.; Voeten, Erik, 2017, "Oil and International Cooperation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RXQO8P, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:r+w22DUmcFOchbUrbFZOQA== [fileUNF]
The more that states depend on oil exports, the less cooperative they become: they grow less likely to join intergovernmental organizations, to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of international judicial bodies, and to agree to binding arbitration for investment disputes. This pattern is robust to the use of country and year fixed effects, to alte... |
Zeigler, Sean M., 2017, "Competitive Alliances and Civil War Recurrence", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LBXXFE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:2OmTd89HrvCEuvcGrIB6jA== [fileUNF]
Why do internal wars start anew after they apparently end? I argue that rebel arrangements made for strategic reasons during wars sometimes create provocative effects even after conflicts end; coalitions formed between opposing groups during conflicts often precipitate disruptive commitment problems at the end of wars. This competition can abet the... |
