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Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil: by Musacchio, Aldo; Does a legal tradition adopted in the distant past constrain a country’s ability to provide the protection that investors need for financial markets to develop? This paper contributes to the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2008 More

Global Action on Health Systems: A Proposal for the Toyako G8 Summit: by Reich, Michael R.; Takemi, Keizo; Roberts, Marc J.; Hsiao, William; The G8 summit in Toyako offers Japan, as the host government, a special opportunity to influence collective action on global health. At the last G8 summit held in Japan, the Japanese government...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2008 More

Globalization and Exchange Rate Policy: by Frieden, Jeffry; Exchange rates powerfully affect cross-border economic transactions. Trade, investment, finance, tourism, migration, and more are all profoundly influenced by international monetary policies. Many...; Published Date: January 2008 More

Evaluating the contributions of interactive problem solving to the resolution of ethnonational conflicts: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Interactive problem solving is a form of unofficial diplomacy, centering on problem-solving workshops and related activities with political elites in conflicting societies. Its dual purpose is...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2008 More

Do All Bridges Collapse? Possibilities for Democracy in the European Union: by Culpepper, Pepper; Fung, Archon; It is tempting, but wrong, to infer from the failures of the EU draft constitution that all reforms based on increasing citizen participation in the European Union are doomed to fail. Andrew...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2007 More

The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla; Dark-skinned blacks in the United States have lower socioeconomic status, more punitive relationships with the criminal justice system, diminished prestige, and less likelihood of holding elective...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2007 More

Bankers, Industrialists, and their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization: by Musacchio, Aldo; Read, Ian; The historiographies of Mexico and Brazil have implicitly stated that business networks were crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2007 More

Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Burch, Traci; Individually or in combination, two federal policies have the potential to transform the American racial and ethnic hierarchy more than any other policy changes since the civil rights movement. They...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2007 More

Negotiating free trade: by Aghion, Philippe; Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan; We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2007 More

Economic Interests and the Origins of Political Systems: by Iversen, Torben; Cusack, Thomas R.; Soskice, David; The standard explanation for the choice of electoral institutions, building on Rokkan’s seminal work, is that proportional representation (PR) was adopted by a divided right to defend its...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2007 More

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