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owners, influence its political and economic impact is still in its infancy. This paper presents the Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO) dataset on ownership of internet service providers ... : Institute for Political Science, University of St. Gallen , Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8, CH-9000 St. Gallen , Switzerland 1 Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin 2 Berlin Social Science Center , Reichpietschufer 50, D
institutional transparency)—and partisan political advocacy (aimed at normative change). If IO communication focuses on advocacy it might garner substantial resonance on social media. Such advocacy nevertheless ... citizens directly (Bjola & Zaiotti, 2020; Ecker-Ehrhardt, 2020a) . These platforms have important advantages for political communication but, at the same time, pose new challenges such as a highly
projects the most. Moreover, they can only rely on accommodation in the Council if the democratic member states perceive opposition as justified and remain insulated from political accountability by Europe’s ... select cases to retain political capital in the Council. Unlike other governments, they can be expected to focus opposition on a distinct sub-set of EU competences, backsliding-inhibiting competences
developing countries using official credit. Second, they have implications for the international political economy of developing countries’ financial ties to China. Third, they imply the use of Chinese finance ... , they imply the use of Chinese finance may allow untransparent governments to remain so, an important implication for the political economy of development. China; Transparency; Official finance; Aid
The political budget cycle (PBC) literature argues that governments expand deficits in election years. However, what happens when an economic downturn is expected? Will the government allow the ... theoretical procyclicality prediction. Moreover, expected downturns remain significant when other context-conditional PBC effects are included in the empirical analysis. Political budget cycles; Elections
implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we aggregate into an overall indicator of constitutional compliance: property rights and the rule of law, political ... , political rights, civil rights, and basic human rights. The database covers 175 countries over the period 1900 to 2020 and can be used by researchers interested in studying the determinants or the effects of
states, carried by populist parties that have seen their electoral fortunes improve over the past few years. It is against this background that this special issue advances research on the political economy ... of the EU. Political economy research investigates the interaction between politics and economics, that is, how political factors influence economic outcomes such as trade or economic growth and how
. Facilitating business and labor mobility might be a possible way around the first dilemma, commonly referred to as the ‘liberal paradox': the tension between economic demands for openness and political calls for ... PTAs’ migration policy content goes well beyond states’ existing multilateral commitments. What is more, such provisions have recurrently spurred political controversy across the globe. India’s demands
We study the political economy of allocation decisions within a major state investment bank. Our focus is the European Investment Bank (EIB) – “The Bank of the EU” – which is the largest multilateral ... consistent with the hypothesis that this home-bias lending may be due to favoritism, however, we cannot conclusively demonstrate this case of resource misallocation. Political economy of international
index of internationalism and for respondents on the left of the political spectrum. Contrary to expectations, we found few significant differences across human rights and anti-trust framings. Our results ... public disagree on why tech firms should be subject to new regulations, the fact that they agree on the need for more regulation seems to have opened political space for attorneys general and government
countries citizens have experience with aid revenues and oil funds, thus possessing information about the political implications of these different revenue sources. This article provides the first ... experimental tests of the direct mechanism linking aid and oil revenues to demands from citizens for greater political accountability. We report the effects of randomly assigned treatments identifying aid funds
number of opt-outs a country realizes in CAP legislation. We hypothesize that the member states’ demand for differentiation is driven by agricultural lobbyism and by the political receptiveness of ... liberal intergovernmentalism, that domestic societal and economic interests and political bargaining power shape the course of (differentiated) integration. Differentiated integration; Political economy
)? This question remains unanswered. Political economy expectations are twofold. First, policies would raise additional costs for regulated companies—i.e., firms whose home countries impose regulations ... the anti-corruption case to show that IOs can alter the behavior of MNCs. This connects the study to a classic international political economy area of research: whether, and by what means, international
existing areas. This, in turn, triggers a demand for delegation. However, this logic is mediated by the political regime of the IO. In predominantly democratic IOs, delegation is constrained by ... make political behavior more predictable. Historical institutionalists emphasize that institutions 1 This argument builds on Marks et al. (2014). tend to become self-reinforcing, and hence “sticky,” by
Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LMU Munich , Oettingenstr. 67, Munich 80538 , USA The ability to borrow is important for government survival. Governments routinely resort to policies that ... finance their operations is at the core of debates on the distribution of power within and across societies, the development of state institutions, and the political control of the economy. To raise funds
What determines states’ ability to influence the contents of international institutions? Extant scholarship on international economic negotiations highlights the importance of political and economic ... of South-Eastern Norway , Drammen , Norway 1 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway 2 PluriCourts, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway What determines states' ability to
. 163) that comes with viewing rules as binding for moral reasons. Legitimacy lowers the cost of rule, enhances the likelihood of compliance, and stabilizes the political order (Beetham, 1991) . It is ... Weber (1978) , who maintained that the notion of legitimacy should be reserved for political institutions that establish political authority. supporters and critics are competing for discursive hegemony
hardly unique to countries in crisis; governments are regularly found to manipulate financial records to gain political and economic advantages (Dias et al., 2014) , and recent history is littered with ... place. I build on the political economy literature on fiscal transparency to argue that governments intentionally hide debt from global records to avoid punishment for growing debt burdens. It can be
Studies, University of Leeds , Leeds , UK 1 Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LMU Munich , Munich , Germany States must navigate the structure of the international system in their ... countries’ need for these weapons also makes them foreign policy tools as producers can attach political strings to the arms they export (Krause, 1991). MCW transfers are thus important for international
London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the declining effectiveness of antibiotic medicines due to misuse are among the biggest threats to global ... resources to building and running a complex system for the surveillance and enforcement of a dispersed industry as well as the political cost of discontent with that regulatory system. The benefits of new
