August 2010

Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS) | August 11, 2010

The Strategic Use of International Institutions in Dispute Settlement

AbstractHow does the existence of an international institution change the strategic calculations of states engaged in an international dispute? This paper investigates the question by modeling an international institution as…

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Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS) | August 11, 2010

Random Events, Economic Losses, and Retrospective Voting: Implications for Democratic Competence

AbstractWe leverage the natural experiment afforded by tornado incidence to estimate the effect of exogenous economic loss on electoral outcomes. We find that voters punish the incumbent party in presidential…

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Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS) | August 11, 2010

Popular Control of Public Policy: A Quantitative Approach

AbstractThe quality of government is often measured by the degree of congruence between policy choices and public opinion, but there is not an accepted method for calculating congruence. This paper…

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