Book abstract: The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays…
Forgive me, but haven't we seen this movie before in the aftermath of national elections? Usually, it doesn't end well.
In the weeks since…
Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the…
Twenty years ago, Edward Djerejian, a former U.S. diplomat, famously worried that Islamists would exploit democratic elections to come to…
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
Are China’s citizens sufficiently satisfied to reduce potential challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule? It is reasonable to…
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in
the US rivaling that of Presidential…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…