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Visit the Center's complete research archive. Below you will find a selection of recent publications by WCFIA Affiliates:

Histories of Innocence: Post-War Stories in Peru: by Theidon, Kimberly S.; On November 1, 2006, Peruvian president Alan García announced he would be proposing a new law that would include the death penalty as one sanction for terrorism in the Penal Code. As he argued,...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: August 2010 More

Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War: by Levitsky, Steven; Competitive authoritarian regimes—in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse—proliferated in the post–Cold War era. Based on a detailed...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: August 2010 More

The World Economy in 2033: by Cooper, Richard N.; The record of long-term forecasting, particularly by economists, is not a glorious one. In a celebrated article, the great English economist John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1930 about “the economic...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: June 2010 More

Jamaica’s Bloody Democracy: by Patterson, Orlando; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; The violence tearing apart Jamaica, a democratic state, raises serious questions not only about its government’s capacity to provide basic security but, more broadly and disturbingly, the link...; Published Date: May 2010 More

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty: by Lamont, Michèle; Small, Mario Luis; Harding, David J.; Publisher: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: May 2010 More

Communitas: Rethinking Scarcity: by Mullainathan, Sendhil; Loury, Glenn; Publisher: Bloggingheads.tv; Publication Type: Blog Entry; Glenn Loury of Brown University and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University discuss new social science thinking about poverty. Link to the New York Times Video; Published Date: March 2010 More

Israel and Palestine-Two States for Two Peoples: If Not Now, When?: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Martin, Lenore G.; Walt, Stephen M.; Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace; Israel and Palestine, is written by the Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace: Alan Berger, Harvey Cox, Herbert C. Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, Everett Mendelsohn, Augustus Richard Norton, Henry...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: March 2010 More

Does the SDR Have a Future?: by Cooper, Richard N.; This article will briefly address the future prospects for the dollar as an internationally acceptable denomination for assets, and then discuss the several ways in which the SDR or some other...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2010 More

The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective: by Ferguson, Niall; Manela, Erez; Maier, Charles S.; Sargent, Daniel; From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic “stagflation,” political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international...; Publication Type: Book; Published Date: March 2010 More

Europe’s Emissions Trading System: by Cooper, Richard N.; This paper describes and evaluates the system for trading CO2 emission permits introduced by the European Union to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to help abate climate change. ...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2010 More

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