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Crafting Institutions for Localized Aid
(2015-06-09)
Today, most development practitioners agree that “going local” should be the way to
deliver foreign aid. However, while this idea is widely embraced in principle,
turning it into action is the hard problem. After all, ...
Endogenous Jurisprudential Regimes
(2012-09-03)
Jurisprudential regime theory is a legal explanation of decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court that asserts that a key precedent in an area of law fundamentally restructures the relationship between case characteristics ...
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-01)
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way
around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along
Weberian precepts is necessary for successful ...
Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2010-04)
We explore the role of sex in judging by addressing two questions of long-standing interest to political scientists: whether and in what ways male and female judges decide cases distinctly—“individual effects”—and whether ...
The Execution of Judicial Discourse: A Positive Political Theory and Empirical Analysis of Strategic Word Choice in District Court Opinions
(2012-04-09)
Supported by numerous empirical studies on judicial hierarchies and panel effects,
Positive Political Theory (PPT) suggests that judges engage in strategic use of opinion content—to further the policy outcomes preferred ...