Political economy and social choice both have their origins in the Eighteenth Century, in the work of Adam Smith (1759, 1776) during the Scottish Enlightenment and in the work of the Marquis de Condorcet (1785) just before the French Revolution.2 Since then, of course, political economy or economic theory has developed apace. However, it was only in the late 1940's that social choice was redisc...

This paper investigates how multinational firms choose their capital structure in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, like expropriation, corruption and confiscatory taxation, and In our theoretical analysis we find that as political risk increases t...

Recent advances in the neurosciences offer a wealth of new information about how the brain works, and how the body and mind interact. These findings offer important and surprising implications for work in political science. Specifically, emotion exerts an impact on political decisions in decisive and significant ways. While its importance in political science has frequently been either dismisse...

Political campaigns involve, in the simplest case, two competing campaign groups which try to obtain a majority of votes. We propose a novel mathematical framework to study political campaign dynamics on social networks whose constituents are either political activists or persuadable individuals. Activists are convinced and do not change their opinion and they are able to move around in the soc...

Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended focus on misuse of her agency. This article argues that presents particularly powerful example need disentangle structure agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon work Stephen Skowronek, it sets out framework evaluating ...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...