This paper is a preliminary exploration of the politics of financial market development. Using panel data for 197 countries over 34 years, we test a range of variables and hypotheses regarding the politics of financial market development. We find only weak support for the legal origins...

Does economic inequality diminish the capacity of democracies to extract voluntary sacrifice? And does inequality undermine citizen's willingness to do their civic duty when the state is under threat? We address these questions by linking income inequality with people's willingness to fight for...

How do America's chief executives get what they want out of the legislative process when their only formal power comes when bills arrive on their desks? We argue that executives are often able to get what they want by using their veto pen as a positive power and by relying upon a variety of...

In the context of a collaborative project on the meaning and legacy of a cultural construction commonly called ‘the West,' and specifically its key Anglo-American dimension, this paper provides a comparative examination of two key bilateral relationships at the core of that construction:...

We witness long-standing discussions in Political Science, but also in Sociology, Public Policy, Comparative Politics, and of course in EU studies, about the question what kind of order the European Union (EU) presents; or, put differently, with which con-cept it can best be analyzed. As a...