Electoral systems and trade-policy outcomes: the effects of personal-vote incentives on barriers to international trade, with Patrick Wagner, is now available online in Public Choice. The article is available through open access thanks to an agreement between UCL and Springer Nature. From the abstract: Despite established benefits in free trade, protectionism persists to varying degrees…
Category: Political Economy
Pacific International Politics Conference
The third meeting of the Pacific International Politics Conference (PIPC) was held at Hong Kong University at the beginning of this month. I received the call for papers through the International Political Economy Society (IPES) email list earlier this year, and the combination of attractive location, substantive focus, and friendly (and established) organizers convinced me…
Journal metrics
I keep a list journals that represent possible outlets for my various research projects. Each year, when Scimago updates their SJR rankings, I go through my list and update my metrics.(1) I like the SJR scores because they reflect the weighted importance of references, rather than a simple citation count. Rather than treating references to…
Perspectives in (International) Political Economy
Welcome to the latest (and hopefully permanent) location of my infrequent blog, which has led a stuttering and meandering existence since my grad-school days. The frequency of early posts was limited by the incessent reading and research demands of a rigorous PhD program. More recently, these have been replaced with the infinitely more demanding student-welfare…
Trading Trump
The results of this week’s US election went widely unanticipated by polls and markets. Now that Trump is switching from candidate mode to presidential mode, many questions remain surrounding the composition of the Trump administration and what that could mean for policy with Republican control over the presidency and both houses of Congress over at…
International negotiations as a two-level game
One of the recurring themes in IPE research is that domestic politics can have a significant impact on international outcomes. From institutions (Broz & Plouffe 2010; Mansfield, Milner & Pevehouse 2007) to the influence of partisanship (Putnam 1988; Milner & Rosendorff 1997), variations at the domestic level shape both policy makers’ actions and policy outcomes….