“Social Stomach” is a series of social, textual and “performative” or diogetic prototypes [1] that rethink the relation between food and technology and experiment with future metabolic exchanges that are biological, technological and political at the same time. Eating in this project represents the ultimate form of “cosmopolitics” [2], an ideal ground for design experiments with temporary assem...

We study political dynasties in the United States Congress since its inception in 1789. We document historic and geographic patterns in the evolution and pro…le of political dynasties, and analyze the connection between political dynasties and political competition. We also study the self-perpetuation of political elites. We …nd that legislators who enjoy longer tenures are signi…cantly more li...

There has been a growing recognition among scholars that politics matters in the distribution of resources in society. However, attempts to use a political economy ‘lens’ with which to explore causes of poverty and strategies for poverty alleviation have largely ignored elites. By failing to embrace the crucial role elites play in the implementation of pro-poor policy, existing research has not...

More than providing simply nutritive value, food in human societies can be endowed with great social weight. Aspects of any given food system inform, and are informed by, a variety of social, economic, religious, historical, ecological, cultural, and political processes. Moreover, food systems are often intentionally designed and executed to communicate key aspects of a consumer’s identity incl...

This article traces the cultural and social integration of Pomaks into post-Ottoman Turkey controversy over their ‘Turkishness’. Current scholarship on early republican nationalism is particularly interested in importance imperial legacy nation-building republic period. Scholars discuss that Ottoman millet system was vital to formation Turkish identity because elites continued accept Muslim imm...

perspective of either political economy or political culture, which leaves the study of East Asian political systems highly underdeveloped. This paper seeks a political explanation of the emergence, characteristics, changes and future prospects of East Asian political regimes. They reveal the common nature of unipolar power in each of three forms-the one-party regime, one-man rule, and the olig...

This paper addresses the issue of the endogenous choice and persistence of legislative malapportionment and analyzes its economic consequences. Legislative malapportionment denotes a wide discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts. We first document that countries with higher lower chamber malapportionment have lower GDP per capita...