This paper investigates how international trade, investment, and migration affect establishment-level standard weekly hours in Europe. These aspects of globalization have offsetting implications that make it unclear whether it spurs, reduces, or has little net effect on standard hours. To...

Scholars and policy-makers frequently use the term ‘global health agenda' or some variant, usually because they are expressing a concern that an issue is neglected. Rarely do they define what they mean by the concept, making it unclear what they are referring to. We offer a working definition:...

This article explores Protestantism's inadvertent, historic role in dispersing elite power and spurring democracy. Economic and political elites typically hoard resources and perpetuate class distinction. Conversionary Protestants undermined this social reproduction because they wanted everyone...

Stephen D. Krasner is conventionally regarded as a Realist student of international political economy. But he is equally an institutional theorist, who has made major contributions to our understanding of international regimes and sovereignty as well as of the difference between control and...

This paper summarizes findings from a soon to be published manuscript entitled Global City Regions in Transition: The Struggle for Governability in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo by Paul Kantor, Christian Lefevre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch and Andy Thornley. Our survey demonstrates that...

Democratic governance is a process in which choices are made and compromises forged between competing interests. But where do interests come from, how are they given a voice within polities, and what effects does interest intermediation have on the decisions of governments and other...

This paper assesses the implications of China's commonly used "win-win" principle for Chinese policies and practice in dealing with international affairs, especially crises that call for China to undertake risks, costs or commitments that China would not ordinarily do. An assessment in the paper...

Transnational feminism is one of the most striking examples of current transformations of the global public sphere. In fact, globalized gender activism serves as a prism for looking at new forms of transnational interaction between states, supra-state actors and civil societies. Among the...