Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), government-owned investment funds, are of growing importance in international finance. They are a vehicle to manage foreign exchange reserves and wealth which have been accumulating in the emerging world, particularly in the BRICs. However, while China and Russia...

This study analyzes the dynamic impact of democratization on receipt of foreign aid. Since the 1990s, this relationship has been increasingly important, given the end of the Cold War and the related turn to good governance, increased pressure from donor publics for political conditionality, and...

This article examines the implications of various voter interaction hypotheses within the collective bias model on the fair weights in heterogeneous voting systems. In such systems, political decision-making is carried out by member state representatives that are assigned individual weights in...