Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
Many elections confront challenges in meeting international standards of electoral integrity, including in established democracies such as…
The author’s 2012 book On Global Justice argues that the standpoint of humanity’s collective ownership of the earth should be central to…
Many malpractices generate flawed elections which fail to meet international standards of electoral integrity, including issues such as…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
Drawing upon theories of the diffusion of global norms, this study addresses two issues: is there a shared consensus among experts about…
When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and…
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We…
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
Book abstract: The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays…