Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
The current banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in the traditional lending model, particularly in terms of screening smaller…
Interest in deliberative theories of democracy has grown tremendously among political theorists over the last twenty years. Many scholars…
What do Americans think about the US role in world affairs and why do they think the way they do? Americans typically do not think about…
Do legislators learn to use new communication technologies from each other? Using data from the official homepages of members of the U.S.…
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective. The goals are to establish (1) whether descriptive…
I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I…
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and…
This article is intended for an edited volume in the series "The New Harvard Bookshelf: Towards a Liberal Education for the 21st Century."…
Many studies have replicated the finding that the forward rate is a biased predictor of the future change in the spot exchange rate.…