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 ...

Since the failure of the Doha round of negotiations, the number of trade agreements between countries has increased exponentially worldwide. The premise being that trade agreements tie nations closer together lessening the ...

How does an economies regime type affect corruption rates observed within a nation? Past empirical studies have looked at both regime type and corruption rates using several different techniques; however past empirical ...

The use of path dependency in political science explanations of institutional development, especially social security helps us to better understand continuities and departures of a policy. The lack of theoretical work on ...

Existing scholarship suggests that the extent of female representation in government at the national and sub-national levels is positively correlated with the existence of equal pay laws, spending on welfare benefits and ...

In this paper, I explore the politics behind human development levels across different states in India. Previous research has found strong correlation between fiscal transfers from the Central Government and the states of ...

Current and past housing policy in Buenos Aires has not been effective for the social insertion of the poor, because, by focusing primarily on the provision of housing, it has not attempted to reduce residential segregation ...

The illicit trafficking of fissile and radioactive materials emerged as a prominent threat following the collapse of the USSR. In the aftermath of September 11th, the issue has received renewed attention due to the ...