What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
Eurozone’s Possible ‘Lehman Moment’: What it Means for U.S. Kenneth Rogoff, May 24, 2012, Video. "As the U.S. election season heats up amid…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
The long-term need for stronger political leadership is NATO's most important challenge. The eurozone debt crisis and substantial…
Please see RWP13-004 for the latest version of this working paper.
Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli…
In the same way that the fiscal crisis is pitting northern and central Europe against southern Europe, the refugee challenge is making…
Observers would be forgiven for dismissing negotiations over Iran's nuclear program as Kabuki theater. Despite years of on-again, off-again…
Please see the updated version of this paper, RWP13-019.
Political strategists say that women are critical to the Democrats’ strategy for retaining control of the Senate. But now, more than ever,…