This article is based on the author's Homer Jones Memorial Lecture delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 6, 2016.
Not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others. In the words of The Economist, “the United States bestrides the globe like…
MERICS Paper on China No. 1 - “China’s core executive: leadership styles, structures and processes under Xi Jinping” is an essay collection…
This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in…
This article argues that the leadership industry has been beset by a bias. This bias has been directed toward leaders and away from two…
In this paper we argue that the concept of democratic quality consists of two necessary, but independently insufficient, components. The…
Econometric Tools for Analyzing Moment Inequalities. Ariel Pakes, August 2016, Paper, "Griliches Lectures, Kyoto. Adjust for Different…
Women, Democracy, and the State. Jocelyn Viterna, 2016, Book Chapter, "What role do states and democracies play in development? Although…
Central Planning: East Asia's Experience. Dwight Perkins, 2016, Book Chapter, "Since 1989 the debate over the appropriate way to…