The Millennial Generational Style: New Global Political and Economic Orientations

Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition

California, Berkeley; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. The authors thank Maite Careaga, Scott Gehlbach, John Litwack, Douglass North, Yingyi Qian, and Daniel Treisman for helpful comments. Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition Rui J. P. de ...

Political orientations, intelligence and education

Article history: Received 15 April 2011 Received in revised form 13 October 2011 Accepted 22 November 2011 Available online xxxx The social sciences have traditionally assumed that education is amajor determinant of citizens' political orientations and behavior. Several studies have also shown that intelligence has an impact. According to a theory that conceptualizes intelligence as a burgher (...

Offshoring in the New Global Political Economy

 This essay challenges claims by economists and management scholars that ‘offshoring’ is simply another form of trade with mutual benefits. I argue that reducing wages through offshoring leads to wealth creation for shareholders but not necessarily for countries and employees, and that many displaced workers have difficulty ‘trading up’ to higher skilled jobs. Offshoring is a new phenom...

Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?

Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations

This article reports results from the first twin study of adults in the United States that focuses exclusively and comprehensively on political traits. These data allow us to test whether a common set of genetic and environmental influences act upon a broad variety of values, personality traits, and political attitudes. In short, it allows us to empirically investigate whether there are a core ...