Assessing the risk of malevolent attacks against large-scale critical infrastructures requires modifications to existing methodologies that separately consider physical security and cyber security. This research has developed a risk assessment methodology that explicitly accounts for both...

How have banking crises affected the survival prospects of political incumbents over the long run? Unlike existing studies, we explore how changing societal expectations concerning how incumbent governments should prevent and respond to crises have reshaped the relationship between crises,...

What determines government policy responses to banking crises? One prominent analysis of pre-1999 post-war crises claims that democratic governments seek to minimize the public burden of bank insolvency to avoid electoral sanction, and thus are less likely to bail out banks than authoritarian...

Sovereign default is often associated with the downfall of incumbent governments in democracies. Whilst existing scholarship focuses on the relationship between default and domestic politics and institutions, here we look to the broader international environment wherein repayment and default...

This chapter outlines political, legal and economic aspects of Australia’s inward foreign investment screening regime, taking account of the historical development of the legislative framework and its practical implementation to date. Australian screening is characterised by high levels of...

How have the politics of banking crises changed over the long run? Unlike existing static accounts, we offer a dynamic theory emphasizing how the emergence of voters’ “great expectations” after the 1930s concerning crisis prevention and mitigation reshaped the politics of banking crises in...

Sovereign default is often associated with the downfall of incumbent governments in democratic polities. Existing scholarship directs attention to the relationship between default and domestic politics and institutions rather than the broader international environment wherein repayment and...