remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …

political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment …

candidates and available policy alternatives. We show that both sides may be caught in an ideology trap: because voters expect … the perceived ideology of office holders to determine their political actions, politicians are tempted to act according to … their perceived ideology, resulting in political failure. …

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate …

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …

states and growing divergence between European powers. In our model, the impact of war on the European state system depends … on: i) the importance of money for determining the war outcome (which stands for the cost of war), and ii) a country … of war. Initially, this caused more internally cohesive states to invest more in state capacity, while other (more …