We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines’ governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country’s vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments and improve governance and welfare by placing countries in a …

directly measure religious organizations’ power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters …

We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …

of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …

evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations …

quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …

’s moral hazard behavior (i.e., improvement in the level of governance) leads to a fall in the proportion of tied aid. We test …