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The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site includes: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and recent books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the collection of published journal articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.

What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions: by Randall Kroszner and Philip Strahan; This paper investigates private–interest, public–interest, and political–institutional theories of regulatory change to analyze state–level deregulation of bank branching restrictions. Using...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 1999 More

Redistributing Income under Proportional Representation: by David Austen-Smith; Although majoritarian decision rules are the norm in legislatures, relatively few democracies use simple majority rule at the electoral stage, adopting instead some form of multiparty proportional...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: December 2000 More

Inequality, Social Insurance and Redistribution: by Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein; Is the political support for welfare policy higher or lower in less egalitarian societies? We answer the question using a model of welfare policy as publicly financed insurance that pays benefits in...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: January 2001 More

Domestic Politics of International Financial Rescues: Congressional Voting on Bailouts in the 1990s: by Broz, J. Lawrence; In the 1990s, the American Executive organized financial rescues of Mexico and several Asian economies. These rescues ("bailouts" to detractors) were controversial in Congress, where...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

Coalition Parties versus Coalitions of Parties: How Electoral Agency Shapes the Political Logic of Costs and Benefits: by Bawn, Kathleen; Rosenbluth, Frances; This paper argues that governments formed from post–election coalitions (majority coalition governments in PR systems) and pre–election coalitions (majority parties in SMD systems) aggregate the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

Private Politics and Private Policy: A Theory of Boycotts: by David Baron; Public policies such as regulation, antitrust, and international trade are the result of public politics – a competition over who gets what with government the arbiter of that competition....; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

Federalism and Democracy: Self-Enforcing Equilibria: by Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast; How are constitutional rules sustained? The general problem concerns how to structure the political game so that all the players – elected officials, the military, economic actors, and citizens...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: March 2001 More

The Political Origin of Finance: The Case of Federal Bankruptcy Law in the United States: by Howard Rosenthal and Erik Berglof; This paper draws on the legislative history of U.S. bankruptcy law to challenge the influential view that a country's legal origin and mechanism shape investor protection and ultimately financial...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: March 2003 More

Deterrence and Regulatory Failure in Emerging Financial Markets: Comparing China and Russia: by Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu; Transition economies faced the formidable task of creating financial markets to ensure that enterprises gained access to external sources of funds under circumstances that were unfavorable for such...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: April 2003 More

After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies: by Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz; When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the rule of law. That didn?t happen. We present a dynamic equilibrium model of the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2002 More

A Structural Model of Government Formation: by Daniel Diermeier and Antonio Merlo; In this paper we estimate a bargaining model of government formation in parliamentary democracies. We use the estimated structural model to conduct policy experiments aimed at evaluating the impact...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: December 1999 More

Accountability and Political Competition: Theory and Evidence: by Tim Besley and Ian Preston; One of the central issues in political economy concerns how to create a form of government that responds to voters needs. The preconditions for achieving this are widely debated. Recent interest has...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Privatization, Institutions and Performance: Telecommunications in Africa: by Roger Noll and Mary Shirley; Nearly all of Sub–Saharan Africa is extremely poor. While a few countries in Asia, Latin America and Oceania are comparably poor, no other region has as many poor people and undeveloped countries....; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: June 2002 More

The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina: by Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi; Public policies are the outcomes of complex intertemporal exchanges among politicians. The political institutions of a country constitute the framework within which these transactions are...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Are Religious Minorities More Militant than Other Ethnic Minorities?: by Jonathan Fox; Since the Iranian Revolution and especially since the end of the Cold War, religion has come to be associated with militancy. Conflicts between gropus of different religions are perceived by many as...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: January 2003 More

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