Sven Steinmo

Trust in institutions: Narrowing the ideological gap over the federal budget

June 17, 2020

Sven Steinmo, 麻豆影院; Kim-Lee Tuxhorn, University of Calgary; John D'Attoma , University of Exeter Published: February 4, 2019 Abstract: Do liberals and conservatives who trust the government have more similar preferences regarding the federal budget than liberals and conservatives who do not? Prior research has shown that...

Sven Steinmo

Historical institutionalism the cognitive foundations of cooperation

June 17, 2020

Sven Steinmo, 麻豆影院 Published: 2020 Abstract: This essay argues that in order to understand how institutions shape political choices and history we should go further toward understanding the interactive relationships between institutions and the cognitive mind. The article explores the significant body of research and literature developing...

Sven Steinmo

How Institutions and Attitudes Shape Tax Compliance: a Cross-National Experiment and Survey

June 17, 2020

Sven Steinmo, 麻豆影院; Fred Pampel, 麻豆影院; Guilia Andrighetto, European University Institute and Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. Published: March 2019 Abstract: Tax evasion is a problem everywhere, but it is a much bigger policy problem in some countries than it is in others...

Steve Chan

China and Thucydides鈥檚 Trap

June 16, 2020

Steve Chan, 麻豆影院 Published: 2020 Abstract: The power-transition theory has been in vogue lately. Sometimes described as Thucydides's Trap, it claims that when a rising power catches up to an incumbent hegemon, the danger of war between them increases. Should we accept this claim? How compelling is...

Steve Chan

Thucydides鈥檚 Trap? Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations

June 16, 2020

Steve Chan, 麻豆影院 Published: 2020 Abstract: The Peloponnesian War (431鈥404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta鈥檚 power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides鈥 Trap warns that all rising powers threaten established powers. As China increases its power relative...

Krister

Public Sector Governance Reform and the Motivation of Street鈥怢evel Bureaucrats in Developing Countries

June 16, 2020

Krister Andersson, 麻豆影院; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago; Tara Grillos, Purdue Univerity. Published: December 30, 2019 Abstract: This article draws on health sector reform in Honduras to examine the mechanisms through which governance reforms shape the behavior of street鈥恖evel bureaucrats. It combines insights from behavioral public administration...

Krister

Contextual factors that enable forest users to engage in tree-planting for forest restoration

June 16, 2020

Krister Andersson, 麻豆影院; Kimberlee Chang, 麻豆影院 Published: October 4, 2019 Abstract: Social, biophysical, and institutional contexts affect forest users鈥 incentives to work together to restore forests. With renewed government commitments to support such activities, we argue that effective interventions need to consider several context-specific...

Andy

Nonpartisans as False Negatives: The Mismeasurement of Party Identification in Public Opinion Surveys

July 9, 2019

Andy Baker, 麻豆影院; Lucio Renno, University of Bras铆lia Published: May 21, 2019 Abstract: We argue that most survey measures of partisanship are misclassifying many respondents as nonpartisans. Common wordings, especially those in major cross-national surveys, violate well-established best practices in questionnaire design by reading aloud a nonpartisanship...

Shin

Immigration and Right-Wing Populism: An Origin Story

June 21, 2019

Shehaj, A., Shin, A. J., & Inglehart, R. (2019). Immigration and right-wing populism: An origin story. Party Politics . https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819849888 Published: 17 May 2019 Abstract: Previous studies of right-wing populist (RWP) parties primarily investigate how domestic factors as well as external forces, such as immigration, incite the emergence and electoral...

Shin

Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy

June 21, 2019

Shin, Adrian International Studies Quarterly , sqz033, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz033 Published: 17 June 2019 Abstract: This article argues that substantial natural resource wealth leads to more restrictive low-skill immigration policy in advanced democracies. High-value natural resource production often crowds out labor-intensive firms that produce tradable goods. When these proimmigration business interests disappear...

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