This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during … the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to … in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent …

. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even … instrumental variable design. We find that dissatisfaction with the government, which is equally driven by economic and health …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show that government delivery quality is significantly correlated with …