Averting Dyadic Conflict: The Role Of International Political Economy

The Role of Track Two Diplomacy in Resolving India-Pakistan Dispute: Case Study of PIPFPD

Evaluation of urban management and political Scandinavian economy (case study: Sweden and Norway)

Study on international political economy of two countries, Sweden and Norway, in international interactions allows us to examine political economy of these two countries as the case study for further understanding of macro patterns of international political economy.  Thus, understanding the power of influence of international developments in two economic and political areas in internal relatio...

TIME-SERIES–CROSS-SECTION DATA: What Have We Learned in the Past Few Years?

■ Abstract This article treats the analysis of “time-series–cross-section” (TSCS) data, which has become popular in the empirical analysis of comparative politics and international relations (IR). Such data consist of repeated observations on a series of fixed (nonsampled) units, where the units are of interest in themselves. An example of TSCS data is the post–World War II annual observations ...

Political Holes in the Economy: Business Camps and Partisanship

When firms reach out to allies in the political field, partisanship can constrain the choice of business partners in the economy. To study the evolution of politicized business camps, we conduct an historical network analysis of the relationship between firm-to-party ties and firm-to-firm ties in the Hungarian economy. We construct a dataset of all senior managers and boards of directors of the...

Persistent Patterns of International Commerce 1

We examine a standard, gravity model of international commerce, augmented to include political as well as institutional influences on bilateral trade. Using annual data from 1980-2001, we estimate regression coefficients and residual dependencies using a hierarchy of models in each year. Rather than gauge the generalizability of these patterns via traditional measures of statistical significanc...