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For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves the Strategic Interests of Private Actors
For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves the Strategic Interests of Private Actors

Abstract: Science is central to the regulation of risk. But who provides the science on which risk regulations are based? Through an in‐depth empirical analysis of domestic health and safety standards, this article shows how private actors use [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12450
Type: Journal Articles
Institutional Sources of Legitimacy for International Organisations: Beyond Procedure versus Performance
Institutional Sources of Legitimacy for International Organisations: Beyond Procedure versus Performance

Abstract: This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on legitimacy in global governance, exploring whether, in what ways, and to what extent institutional qualities of international organisations (IOs) matter for popular legiti [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051900007X
Type: Journal Articles
No calm after the storm—diaspora influence on bilateral emergency aid flows
No calm after the storm—diaspora influence on bilateral emergency aid flows

Abstract: This study analyzes how migrants affect their host country's foreign policy toward their home country by measuring their influence on bilateral emergency aid. I develop the argument that besides political lobbying and the targeting o [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2019.29
Type: Journal Articles
Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information
Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two‐Sided Incomplete Information

Abstract: Conventional models of bargaining and reassurance under incomplete information assume that actors' behavioral signals are objectively cooperative or noncooperative. Even if actors are uncertain of each other's preferences, they know [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12464
Type: Journal Articles
Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: changing uses of Côte d’Ivoire’s 1998 Land Law
Shifting visions of property under competing political regimes: changing uses of Côte d’Ivoire’s 1998 Land Law

Abstract: Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-governance step toward building market economies and depoliticising land transactions. In actual practice, however, land registration and titlin [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000198
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The Fate of International Monetary Systems: How and Why They Fall Apart
The Fate of International Monetary Systems: How and Why They Fall Apart

Abstract: The collapses of the interwar and Bretton Woods monetary regimes have been understood as evidence that international monetary regimes fail when sudden economic shocks destabilize the political coalitions or shared ideas underpinning [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002315
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The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis
The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis

Abstract: The Eurozone crisis revealed fundamental flaws in the institutional architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union. Its lack of political steering capacity has demonstrated the need for a broad but seemingly unachievable political u [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000081
Type: Journal Articles