Series

The Leitner Program's Working Papers focus on current problems in international and comparative political economy.

Publishers:	Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy
Publications:	Which Elections Can Be Lost? Political Capital: The (Mostly) Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008 Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy Ethnic Quotas and Political Mobilization Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself? Legislative Malapportionment and Institutional Persistence Do Quotas Promote Ethnic Solidarity? Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism Costly Transparency Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Democracy, War and Wealth Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection National Service as Civic Education? International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation in Developing Countries Catch Us if You Can Delegation and Accountability Judicial Review and Democratic Failure Trade Does Promote Peace The Effects of the Security Environment on Military Expenditures Partisanship and Economic Behavior Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Oversight Who Helps DeShawn Register to Vote? The Conscription of Wealth Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements Third-Party-Assisted Renegotiation of Trade Agreements War and State Building The Electoral Effect of Credit Claiming for Pork Barrel Projects in Congress Measuring Tax Policy Preferences in the American States Distributive Politics with Primaries Notes on Distributive Politics How Many Clients Does it Take to Win an Election? The Politics of IMF Forecasts The Political Economy of Income Taxation Rain, Election, and Money: The Impact of Voter Turnout on Distributive Policy Outcomes Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run Delegates or Trustees? A Theory of Political Accountability Development Aid and International Politics Social Identity, Electoral Institutions, and the Number of Candidates Work and Power: The Connection between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation Political (Dis)integration, Rent Seeking and Growth The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy Estimating the Effect of Elite Communications on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables Educational Business Cycles Why Do the Poor Support Right-Wing Parties? Swing Voters, Core Voters and Distributive Politics The Core Voter Model: Evidence From Mexico Tax Morale after the Reunification of Germany With or Against the People? The Impact of a Bottom-up Approach on Tax Morale and the Shadow Economy Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality Explaining Institutional Change in Higher Education Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States Tax Morale and Conditional Cooperation Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Decisions? Relative Income Position and Performance Participation in Environmental Organizations Rewarding Honest Taxpayers? Women and Illegal Activities Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Determinants of Individuals' Attitudes towards Preventing Environmental Damage The Determinants of Political Discussion Tax Morale and Fiscal Policy The Evolution of Tax Morale in Modern Spain Effects of Tax Morale on Tax Compliance Russian Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes Estimating the Effect of Elite Communications on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables Public Finance and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance Cross-Border Political Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs Culture Differences and Tax Morale in the United States and in Europe Information Asymmetry and the Problem of Transfers in Trade Negotiations and International Agencies Divorce and the Gender Division of Labor in Comparative Perspective Government Transparency and Policymaking Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height and Inequality The Political Economy of Gender Short Versus Long Coalitions National Values, Institutions and Health Policies Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care Trust and Fiscal Performance A Knight without a Sword or a Toothless Tiger? Electoral Donations and Interest Group Influence The International and Domestic Politics of IMF Programs Social Identity, Electoral Institutions, and the Number of Candidates Comparative Judicial Politics The Evolution of Development Thinking On Wars and Political Development Varieties of Capitalist Interests Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth Endogenous Constitutions A Continuous Schumpeterian Conception of Democracy Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes Independent Actor or Agent? Centralization vs. Decentralization Crisis, Political Institutions, and Policy Reform Institutional Determinants of IMF Agreements Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production Graft and Governance Coalition Parties Versus Coalitions of Parties Civil Wars Kill and Maim People Bicameral Winning Coalitions and Equilibrium Federal Legislatures Resource Wealth and Institutional Change Estimation of Electoral Disproportionality and Thresholds via MCMC The Politics of Low Fertility A Three-Player Dynamic Majoritarian Bargaining Game Dynamics of Majority Rule With Endogenous Reversion Point Electoral Rules as Constraints on Corruption: The Risks of Closed-List Proportional Representation Directing Retribution: Mandatory Minimums, Retention, and the Discretion of Trial Judges Conviction versus Necessity: Public Utility Privatization in Argentina, Chile and Mexico On the Centrality of Policy Outcomes in Dynamic Majoritarian Bargaining Games Electoral Reform and the Distribution of Public Expenditures Causes of Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885-1992 The Effect of IMF Programs on Deforestation Power-Sharing Agreements as Political Risk-Sharing Contracts The Politics of European Rights The Comparative Politics of Gender Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival Electoral Legitimation, Polyarchy, and Democratic Legitimacy Economic Ideas and Institutional Choice Among the Post-Soviet States A Neural Network Analysis of Militarized Disputes, 1885-1992 Inducing and Suppressing Conflict in Interactive International Dyads The Political Economy of Comparative Human Misery and Well-being Civil Wars Kill and Maim People - Long after the Shooting Stops Violence Prediction International Relations The Effect of IMF Programs on Labor The Domestic Politics of Financial Globalization Democracy and Globalization Comparative Context and Public Preferences over Regional Economic Integration Election Timing in Majoritarian Parliaments The Causes of Globalization Minority Presidents, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies Globalization and Decentralization Accountability in Decentralization Why do Resource Dependent Countries Have Authoritarian Governments? Group Size and Collective Action The Institutional Foundations of Supranationalism in the European Union Globalization and Government Spending Around the World Globalization and the Welfare State The Electoral Foundations of Japan’s Financial Politics Prelude to the Resource Curse The Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement The IMF: Lender of Last Resort or Scapegoat? The Political Economy of Japanese Pollution Regulation National Service as Civic Education?

Publishers:

Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy

Publications:

Which Elections Can Be Lost?
Political Capital: The (Mostly) Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008
Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy
Ethnic Quotas and Political Mobilization
Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself?
Legislative Malapportionment and Institutional Persistence
Do Quotas Promote Ethnic Solidarity?
Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism
Costly Transparency
Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword?
Democracy, War and Wealth
Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection
National Service as Civic Education?
International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation in Developing Countries
Catch Us if You Can
Delegation and Accountability
Judicial Review and Democratic Failure
Trade Does Promote Peace
The Effects of the Security Environment on Military Expenditures
Partisanship and Economic Behavior
Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting
Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Oversight
Who Helps DeShawn Register to Vote?
The Conscription of Wealth
Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements
Third-Party-Assisted Renegotiation of Trade Agreements
War and State Building
The Electoral Effect of Credit Claiming for Pork Barrel Projects in Congress
Measuring Tax Policy Preferences in the American States
Distributive Politics with Primaries
Notes on Distributive Politics
How Many Clients Does it Take to Win an Election?
The Politics of IMF Forecasts
The Political Economy of Income Taxation
Rain, Election, and Money: The Impact of Voter Turnout on Distributive Policy Outcomes
Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run
Delegates or Trustees? A Theory of Political Accountability
Development Aid and International Politics
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions, and the Number of Candidates
Work and Power: The Connection between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation
Political (Dis)integration, Rent Seeking and Growth
The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy
Estimating the Effect of Elite Communications on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables
Educational Business Cycles
Why Do the Poor Support Right-Wing Parties?
Swing Voters, Core Voters and Distributive Politics
The Core Voter Model: Evidence From Mexico
Tax Morale after the Reunification of Germany
With or Against the People? The Impact of a Bottom-up Approach on Tax Morale and the Shadow Economy
Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality
Explaining Institutional Change in Higher Education
Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Tax Morale and Conditional Cooperation
Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Decisions?
Relative Income Position and Performance
Participation in Environmental Organizations
Rewarding Honest Taxpayers?
Women and Illegal Activities
Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals?
The Determinants of Individuals' Attitudes towards Preventing Environmental Damage
The Determinants of Political Discussion
Tax Morale and Fiscal Policy
The Evolution of Tax Morale in Modern Spain
Effects of Tax Morale on Tax Compliance
Russian Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes
Estimating the Effect of Elite Communications on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables
Public Finance and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance
Cross-Border Political Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs
Culture Differences and Tax Morale in the United States and in Europe
Information Asymmetry and the Problem of Transfers in Trade Negotiations and International Agencies
Divorce and the Gender Division of Labor in Comparative Perspective
Government Transparency and Policymaking
Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height and Inequality
The Political Economy of Gender
Short Versus Long Coalitions
National Values, Institutions and Health Policies
Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care
Trust and Fiscal Performance
A Knight without a Sword or a Toothless Tiger?
Electoral Donations and Interest Group Influence
The International and Domestic Politics of IMF Programs
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions, and the Number of Candidates
Comparative Judicial Politics
The Evolution of Development Thinking
On Wars and Political Development
Varieties of Capitalist Interests
Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth
Endogenous Constitutions
A Continuous Schumpeterian Conception of Democracy
Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes
Independent Actor or Agent?
Centralization vs. Decentralization
Crisis, Political Institutions, and Policy Reform
Institutional Determinants of IMF Agreements
Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production
Graft and Governance
Coalition Parties Versus Coalitions of Parties
Civil Wars Kill and Maim People
Bicameral Winning Coalitions and Equilibrium Federal Legislatures
Resource Wealth and Institutional Change
Estimation of Electoral Disproportionality and Thresholds via MCMC
The Politics of Low Fertility
A Three-Player Dynamic Majoritarian Bargaining Game
Dynamics of Majority Rule With Endogenous Reversion Point
Electoral Rules as Constraints on Corruption: The Risks of Closed-List Proportional Representation
Directing Retribution: Mandatory Minimums, Retention, and the Discretion of Trial Judges
Conviction versus Necessity: Public Utility Privatization in Argentina, Chile and Mexico
On the Centrality of Policy Outcomes in Dynamic Majoritarian Bargaining Games
Electoral Reform and the Distribution of Public Expenditures
Causes of Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885-1992
The Effect of IMF Programs on Deforestation
Power-Sharing Agreements as Political Risk-Sharing Contracts
The Politics of European Rights
The Comparative Politics of Gender
Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival
Electoral Legitimation, Polyarchy, and Democratic Legitimacy
Economic Ideas and Institutional Choice Among the Post-Soviet States
A Neural Network Analysis of Militarized Disputes, 1885-1992
Inducing and Suppressing Conflict in Interactive International Dyads
The Political Economy of Comparative Human Misery and Well-being
Civil Wars Kill and Maim People - Long after the Shooting Stops
Violence Prediction
International Relations
The Effect of IMF Programs on Labor
The Domestic Politics of Financial Globalization
Democracy and Globalization
Comparative Context and Public Preferences over Regional Economic Integration
Election Timing in Majoritarian Parliaments
The Causes of Globalization
Minority Presidents, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies
Globalization and Decentralization
Accountability in Decentralization
Why do Resource Dependent Countries Have Authoritarian Governments?
Group Size and Collective Action
The Institutional Foundations of Supranationalism in the European Union
Globalization and Government Spending Around the World
Globalization and the Welfare State
The Electoral Foundations of Japan’s Financial Politics
Prelude to the Resource Curse
The Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement
The IMF: Lender of Last Resort or Scapegoat?
The Political Economy of Japanese Pollution Regulation
National Service as Civic Education?