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Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict
(2020-08)
We address how regime supporters affect war-making by re-opening a classic debate on business elites and their influence on states' conflict behavior. Imperialist theories contend that business elites encourage executives ...
Female Empowerment and Economic Growth
(2020-06)
We discuss how inclusive institutions enhance technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. Specifically, institutions that promote female political empowerment advance technological change through ...
The Business Case for Democracy
(2020-10)
I present a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth. This relationship is widely studied, and results are less clear for growth than many other development outcomes such as ...
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)
Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ...