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The Parliament and Cooperative Oversight of the Indonesian Armed Forces: Why Civil–Military Relations in Indonesia is Stable but Still in Transition
Armed Forces &Society, Ahead of Print. Parliamentary oversight is a cornerstone of democratic control of the armed forces, but its influence on civil–military relations (CMR) remains underexplored. We argue that…
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Fiscal Origins of Subnational Democracy: Evidence from Argentina
Politics &Society, Ahead of Print. Subnational governments are generally funded by fiscal rents, that is, transfers of centrally levied taxes. Existing literature concurs that fiscal federalism breeds rentierism and, consequently,…
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Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration
Administration &Society, Ahead of Print. Global public administration remains an incomplete project with contested notions of its aims and objectives. Given its disputed nature we focus on developing a negative…
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The Role of Historical Malaria in Institutions and Contemporary Economic Development
Abstract This research examines the causal impact of institutional quality on economic development from a novel perspective. At the country level, we exploit variation in the natural malaria prevalence in…
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Democracy at Risk: The Public Employee Freedom of Speech Crisis
Administration &Society, Ahead of Print. The article argues that the Pickering/Connick/Garcetti line of cases defining the First Amendment freedom of speech rights of public employees provides them little protection when…
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When Do Imposed Sanctions Work? The Role of Target Regime Type
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Ahead of Print. A number of studies on sanction effectiveness have highlighted the importance of regime type and how it affects the sensitivity of sanctioned states…
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Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs
European Journal of International Relations, Ahead of Print. This article conceives of climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs to explain the emergence of particular emotional responses to climate change. Among these…
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Public Attitudes Toward Immigration: Was There a Trump Effect?
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. This paper examines public opinion about immigration policy in 2012 and 2016, seeking to understand whether there are meaningful differences in public opinion across…
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The Impact of Police Killings on Proximal Voter Turnout
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. This paper studies how spatial proximity to pre-election police killings affects voter turnout. I argue that incidents of police violence have neighborhood-level effects. Nearby…
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International Negotiations in the Shadow of Elections
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Ahead of Print. Within a formal model of international agreements in the shadow of renegotiations and domestic competition, we highlight three important ways elections shape international…
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The Impact of Institutional Formation on Firms’ Strategic Choices in Knowledge Development, Absorptive Capacity and Vertical Integration
Abstract This study examines the impact of institutional shifts on the strategic choices of Russian firms. It proposes and tests hypotheses of how a shift from a weak to a…
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When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Ahead of Print. Conflict points around the world involve government forces fighting terrorist groups. In this type of warfare, there is a danger that counterterrorist efforts…
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Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how armies re-entrench their power after thwarting democratic transitions. After the Sudanese military staged a coup in October 2021 and altered the…
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The J-Curve Effect in Services Trade: A Disaggregated Analysis
Foreign Trade Review, Ahead of Print. This article examines the relationship between the real exchange rate and the services trade balance in the UK using the quarterly data for the…
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Perceived Local Population Dynamics and Immigration Policy Views
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. How do perceptions of local immigrant populations influence immigration policy views? Building on findings that Americans may not accurately perceive population dynamics, we argue…
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Better than a bet: good reasons for behavioral and rational choice assumptions in IR theory
European Journal of International Relations, Ahead of Print. Behavioral IR is enjoying newfound popularity. Nonetheless, attempts to integrate behavioral research into the larger project of IR theory have proven controversial.…
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Superweapons and the myth of technological peace
European Journal of International Relations, Ahead of Print. In this article, I trace and critique the discourse of “The Superweapon Peace”—the long-standing and enduring idea that weapons of radical destructiveness,…
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Putting on the Blitz: Urgency and Department of Defense Communications in Times of Budget Shortfall
Armed Forces &Society, Ahead of Print. The existing theories of interaction between Congress and the Department of Defense (DOD) focus on elite-level principle-actor problems. However, the Department, as one of…
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Do Partisans Always Like Their Inparty and Dislike Their Outparty? An Analysis of Partisans Across the Affective Spectrum
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. What can American partisan affect groups tell us about different models of partisan affect over a recent snapshot in time? Moreover, what implications do…
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Race, Religion, and the Echoes of Status Insecurity in US Foreign Policy
Alternatives, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the racial and religious historical influences on US ontological insecurity in a time of perceived hegemonic decline. It explores the role of particular…
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Place and Policy Preferences – Spatial Divides in Attitudes towards Social Policies in Germany
Abstract The rise of the knowledge economy has led to a bifurcation between prosperous, often urban, areas and “left-behind” regions. While the literature has started to analyse the political implications…
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Putting the Political in Political Interest: The Conditional Effect of Politics on Citizens’ Interest in Politics
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. Given that political interest is one of the best predictors of political participation, it remains curious that the causes of interest are undertheorized and…
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Beyond Pan-Ethnicity: Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups
American Politics Research, Ahead of Print. Are American elected officials equally responsive to all Asian subgroups? Asian American is one of the major racial/ethnic groups in the United States and…
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The New Terrain of Global Governance: Mapping Membership in Informal International Organizations
Journal of Conflict Resolution, Ahead of Print. We present a new dataset of membership in informal international organizations—IOs founded with non-binding instruments—which constitute one-third of operating IOs. We introduce state-IO-year–level…
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