recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …. We identify the causal effect of "allegiance" by investigating the differential effect of foreign education on voting in …