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The Illusion of Democratic Credibility: by Sechser, Todd S.; Downes, Alexander B.; Do democracies make more effective coercive threats? An inﬂuential literature in international relations argues that democratic institutions allow leaders to credibly signal their resolve in...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes Since 1800: by Rogoff, Kenneth S.; We identify the major public debt overhang episodes in the advanced economies since the early 1800s, characterized by public debt to GDP levels exceeding 90 percent for at least five years....; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period: by Singhal, Monica; Baicker, Katherine; Clemens, Jeffrey; One of the most dramatic changes in the fiscal federalism landscape during the postwar period has been the rapid growth in state budgets, which almost tripled as a share of GDP and doubled as a share...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

U.S.-Mexican Relations in the Twenty-First Century: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first decade of...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: May 2012 More

Reshaping the Relations between the United States and Cuba: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Two decades ago affairs between the United States and Cuba had seen little improvement from the Cold War era. Today, U.S.–Cuban relations are in many respects still in poor shape, yet some...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: April 2012 More

If Democracies Need Informed Voters, How Can They Thrive While Expanding Enfranchisement?: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; In a democracy, knowledge is power. —Jerit et al. 2006, 266 The two simplest truths I know about the distribution of political information in modern electorates are that the mean is low and the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: April 2012 More

Dead Certain: Confidence and Conservatism Predict Aggression in Simulated International Crisis Decision-Making: by Tingley, Dustin; McDermott, Rose; Johnson, Dominic; Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that confidence and conservatism promoted aggression in our ancestral past, and that this may have been an adaptive strategy given the prevailing costs and...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More

A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods: by Siegel, Jordan I.; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More

The Blessings of Troubles: Scholarly Innovation in Response to Latin America's Challenges: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region’s experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: March 2012 More

Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and Subjectivity in Java: by Good, Byron J.; This essay outlines the evolution of my personal thinking about phenomenology and subjectivity. In previous work, I drew heavily on cultural phenomenology for studying illness, subjective experience,...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More