Traditionally a responsibility of the federal government, immigration policymaking has become more common in state legislatures. The majority of new state laws addressing immigration have been restrictive in the sense that ...

Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...

Several researchers have found a link between inequality across groups within a country and armed conflict. However, this research has focused almost exclusively on inequalities in income and political access, forsaking ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...

This study explores the potential effect of online voter registration (OLVR) on registration rates by employing ordinary least squares, difference-in-difference, and fixed effects models for county-year data from 2008, ...

A significant amount of research in the public opinion field has explored the American people's attitudes on American foreign policy and found the course of events, elite discourse, and news media are important predictors ...

The rapid process of urbanization currently swelling the poor urban neighborhoods of developing countries is changing local and national political landscapes. As the population of urban poor continues to grow--it is expected ...

Social media, especially social networking sites (SNS) is an important platform for people to seek and share information. Its features of unique spread function, easy accessibility and wide content coverage attract more ...

Income inequality finds a prominent place in contemporary political and economic debates. I demonstrate that sustained exchange rate undervaluation increases inequality, building on research linking undervaluation with ...

This work aims to develop a critical reading of specialized literature on Argentina´s labor market and make some contributions to model it more accurately.