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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

 

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How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap
by Kay, Tamara; Evans, Rhonda
This article examines why and how environmental activists, despite considerable political weakness and disproportionally few resources, won substantive negotiating concessions that far outstripped...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 2009 More
If Democracies Need Informed Voters, Why Is It Democratic to Expand Enfranchisement?
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.
Three uncontroversial points add up to a paradox: 1) Almost every democratic theorist or democratic political actor sees an informed electorate as essential to good democratic practice. Citizens...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: September 20, 2009 More
How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences
by Walter, Stefanie; Maduz, Linda
How does globalization affect individuals and their perceptions and policy preferences? This paper uses new developments in international trade theory to propose a new way of conceptualizing and...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: August 2009 More
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence—they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: August 2009 More
Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
by Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffery G.
Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems to have dealt with the volatility better. Why? This paper explores Australian...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: July 2009 More
The Human Cost of Economic Crises
by Alexander, Marcus; Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos
Policy makers rely on a mix of government spending and tax cuts to address the imbalances in the economy during an economic crisis, by promoting price stability and renewed economic growth. However,...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 22, 2009 More
The Estimated Trade Effects of the Euro: Why Are They Below Those From Historical Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?
by Frankel, Jeffrey
Andy Rose (2000), followed by many others, has used the gravity model of bilateral trade on a large data set to estimate the trade effects of monetary unions among small countries. The finding has...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 13, 2009 More
Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue in Climate Change Policy Proposals
by Frankel, Jeffrey
We will likely see increasing efforts to minimize leakage of carbon to non-participating countries and to address concerns on behalf of the competitiveness of carbon-intensive industry....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 2009 More
Institutionalizing Cooperation: Public Goods Experiments in the Aftermath of Civil War
by Alexander, Marcus; Christia, Fotini
Fostering cooperation is one of the main tasks of state building in the aftermath of civil wars, yet little is known about the effects of institutions of integration in increasing...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2009 More
Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand
by Garip, Filiz; Curran, Sara
This paper studies how increasing migration changes the character of migrant streams in sending communities. Cumulative causation theory posits that past migration patterns determine future flows, as...
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Published Date: February 2009 More
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