How does political nostalgia influence voting? Although nostalgic voters have been often mentioned as central to the rise of populism in the West, scholars have rarely shown empirically how nostalgia influences electoral choice. In this paper, I use survey data from 2009 and 2016 to investigate...

China's politicians like to emphasise that they are building a socialist market economy based on the ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Unlike other post-communist transitions to capitalism, China's radical economic transformations during the neo-liberal era did not generate a...

Who are the post-Soviet oligarchs? Have they been members of the nomenklatura before 1991? Did they accumulate their initial wealth before or after privatization? To answer these questions, I have compiled an original dataset of oligarchs drawing on publicly available biographical data in the...

How can we explain the economic endurance of the post-Soviet unrecognized states? Drawing insights from the literature on economic institutions, rentier states, and patron-client relations, this article explores the resource extraction strategies of de facto states via a paired comparison of...

Who are the post-Soviet oligarchs? Have they been members of the nomenklatura before 1991? Did they accumulate their initial wealth before or after privatization? To answer these questions, I have compiled an original data set of oligarchs drawing on publicly available biographical data in the...

China’s politicians emphasize that they are building a Socialist market economy (社会主义市场经济) based on the ideology of Socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特别社会主义). Unlike other post-communist transitions to capitalism, China’s radical economic...

Under what conditions does conflict resolution fail? This paper identifies several undertheorized factors hindering the achievement of durable peace. It argues that structural bias, inadequate leverage and a polarized mediation format that reproduces rivalries among major powers render...