Torture Approval in Comparative Perspective

Economic Consequences of Political Approval Managementin Comparative Perspective

We develop a dynamic, stochastic, computable general equilibrium model of political approval management and fiscal policy in order to analyze how political approval management affects United States’ Presidential and United Kingdom’s parliamentary business cycles. We find that governments in both systems respond to declining political approval by pursuing suboptimal fiscal policies that stimulat...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

Economic Insecurity in Comparative Perspective

This paper examines the determinants of economic insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data collected in 13 European democracies, it shows that people’s sense of economic security is affected by individual-level attributes such as human capital, recent experiences in the labor market and perceptions of the national economy, but also by cross-national differences in levels of soc...

Security scanners in comparative perspective.

Agenda Setting in Comparative Perspective

I t has been more than 50 years since the discipline was split by the difficulty of studying “power” and “influence.” Writers such as E. E. Schattschneider (1960) and Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz (1962) brought our attention to the scope of conflict and those issues kept off the agenda as fundamental strategies of political control. Schattschneider wrote that the struggle over what to fight...