While scholar have long posited that democratization is influenced by international interaction, this relationship has usually been black-boxed in percentages of regional democracies or limited to descriptions of specific contexts. Large-N explorations have necessarily been limited by the...

Since Turkey's aid flotilla to Gaza, many foreign policy pundits and analysts have suggested that Turkey may be turning East in its foreign policy. While this East/West dichotomy is pervasive in discussing Turkey's foreign policy, few have bothered to empirically analyze public perceptions to...

To reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of universal household electrification by 2030, developing countries are spending billions of dollars to expand access. India, for example, recently undertook an audacious expansion plan which aimed to electrify every household by December...

While rural electrification has been a high priority for many governments in the developing world, the factors that make individual households more likely to pay for a connection have received insufficient attention. In particular, many studies have dealt with the role of affordability of grid...

We examine the social antecedents for contributing to campaigns, with a particular focus on the role of population density. Using 10 years of US campaign contribution data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), we find that the idea of contributing to a campaign is easier to spread in a...

Governments in developing countries are investing billions of dollars to increase electricity access in rural areas, but the literature on the impact of these investments has produced mixed results. We leverage a unique characteristic of household electrification policy in Uttar Pradesh, India,...

Off-grid solar systems have a number of advantages in developing countries, but they rely on the capacity of private entrepreneurs to develop a reliable customer base and methods for recruiting these customers. This study uses data from 68,600 customers of BBOXX, a London-based off-grid solar...