The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis is a watershed phenomenon that reshaped global capitalism. Stemming from the argument that the Crisis was caused by deregulation, this article assesses to what extent the financial industry influenced the legislative process underlying these reforms. The...

This study extends the political science and political psychology literature on the political ideology of lawmakers by addressing the following question: How stable is a legislator's political ideology over time? In doing so, we employ Nokken-Poole scores of legislators' political ideology for...

Given its size, reputation, and dominance of the retail sector, Wal-Mart has quickly become one of the most controversial companies of our time. Despite its considerable coverage in the news and popular press, relatively little has been written about Wal-Mart in academic, peer-reviewed books and...