party voting with a classification of each party's political agenda on a scale of their "nationalistic" attitudes over 28 …

We argue that the Democratic Party's evolution on economic policy helps explain partisan realignment by education. We …-described "New Democrat" party faction who court more educated voters and are explicitly skeptical of predistribution. Consistent … campaigns relative to Republican primaries. In response to these within-party changes in power, less-educated Americans began to …

to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various … European research promotion policies do? We find that (i) Europe's lower research effort has more to do with the smaller … markets facing European inventors than with lower research productivity. (ii) Europe has substantial research potential in …

to differences in what qualifies for a valid research design and not underlying differences in the datasets …

When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of … democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more … established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and …

The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history … of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …

parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …