Billionaires in world politics: donors, governors, authorities

Party Politics and the Survival of Central Bank Governors

Legally independent central banks leave elected politicians with little direct control over monetary policy. The most important indirect channel of influence for governments thus consists in appointing ‘responsive’ central bank officials and removing ‘hostile’ ones. This premise is tested by examining the effect of partisan ties between central bank governors and governments or presidents in 30...

The Politics of Federalism in Brazil: The Role of Governors in the Brazilian Congress

Demographic dimensions of world politics.

Articles Demographic Dimensions of World Politics: P. M. Hauser .......................... 1641 Population explosion has implications for the coinflict between the free world and the Communist bloc. Sir Francis Simon: P. W. Bridgman ...... .................................. 1647 Knowledge of the properties of matter at tenmperatures near absolute zero has been increased greatly by his work. Cha...

Distributive Politics Around the World

We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic accountability and theories of government responsiveness. Studies that concern democratic accountability conceptualize distributive allocations as attempts by politicians to protect themselves elector...

Integrating Levels of Analysis in World Politics

‘Levels of analysis’ problems can involve issues regarding (1) the relative potency of different categories of explanatory factors, (2) the relationship between analyses focusing on different units of analysis or (3) the relationship between assumptions about individual social entities and hypotheses regarding interactions among those entities. An analysis of the manner in which economists have...