The importance of immigration to the future of Europe and also to the future of Luxembourg cannot be denied. This paper presents Luxembourg both in the context of European immigration and also in comparative income inequality terms. The paper includes an assessment of why Luxembourg presents a...

Constructivist scholarship about ideas, identities, norms, practices, and other social constructs is now common in political science. Yet its status in the discipline seems partly separate-but-equal rather than fully accepted. Many non-constructivists do not engage constructivist work, and some...

In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken...

The few existing empirical studies of U.S.-Japan trade agreements have relied primarily on descriptive statistics or univariate time series methods. We conduct a more powerful test by evaluating agreements in the context of well-specified econometric models. Consistent with trade theory, import...

Empirical evaluations of trade agreements often rely on descriptive statistics or univariate time series methods to detect subsequent changes in trade flows. We conduct a more satisfactory test by evaluating an agreement in the context of a structural econometric model. Consistent with trade...

The few existing empirical studies of U.S.-Japan trade agreements have relied primarily on descriptive statistics or univariate time series methods. We conduct a more powerful test by evaluating agreements in the context of well-specified econometric models. Consistent with trade theory, import...