My research lies at the intersection of the elds of political economy, public economics, and applied econometrics. In recent decades, a vibrant literature in political economy has developed game theoretical models of the political process and has examined the role of various economic and political factors in the endogenous determination of policies. This theoretical literature, however, has in ...

We present this paper in order to suggest a new tool for political science in respect to identifying unstable countries and their root indicators that could suggest areas for political intervention. With more than 98% accuracy, we were able to predict severely unstable political states based on countries with a Fragile States Index (FSI) score of > 100. In addition, we were able to determine th...

this article is going to study of effective sociological factors on production of political narrative literature discourse during sixty and seventy decades. in this order, robert wuthnow & randall collins’s theories are used in total emphasizes on four concepts such as: political reforms of government, crisis in moral order of society, forming interaction chains between writers & resource mobil...

This contribution explores the importance of independent organizations in authoritarian regimes. While some authoritarian governments delegate policy tasks to (relatively) autonomous agencies simply in order to improve their domestic or international image as modern political leaders or to build up democratic facades to conceal the actual nature of their regime, other political leaders do so in...

An unfunded social security system faces the major risk, sometimes referred to as ”political risk”, that future generations do not agree to contribute as much as expected. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each new born generation. The analysis is conducted in an overlapping generations economy th...

An unfunded Social Security system faces the major risk, sometimes referred to as ”political risk”, that future generations do not agree to contribute. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each new born generation. The analysis is conducted in an overlapping generations economy that is subject to mac...

This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political decentralisation developed over the last decade and a half with two basic measures of economic performance: changes...

We study political distortions that emerge in situations where agents’ political power is disproportionate with respect to their economic power. We use the Shapley value to evaluate both the economic and the political power. We show that usual weighted majority voting cannot prevent political distortions from emerging in a huge mass of situations. Distortions are less severe if partners can lea...

Studies of political economy in recent years have placed emphasis on the operating characteristics of political and economic institutions. The premise of this work is that constitutional features of the political economy provide a structure of institutional incentives inducing equilibrium behavior and practices by optimizing agents. At both the theoretical and empirical levels there are compari...

Political text scaling aims to linearly order parties and politicians across political dimensions (e.g., left-to-right ideology) based on textual content (e.g., politician speeches or party manifestos). Existing models scale texts based on relative word usage and cannot be used for cross-lingual analyses. Additionally, there is little quantitative evidence that the output of these models correl...