• Agenda dynamics in Spain

  Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Muñoz Màrquez, Luz (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  The main goal of the Policy Agendas Project in Spain is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and empirical understanding of agenda dynamics across time, issues, and levels of governance. The project establishes a link ...
• A practical guide to (successfully) collect and process images through online surveys

  Iglesias, Patricia A.; Ochoa, Carlos; Revilla, Melanie (Elsevier, 2024)

  Asking online survey respondents to share images is a practice that has gained notoriety recently. Although this collecting strategy may offer many advantages, it requires researchers to know how to operationalize, collect, ...
• ‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid

  Açikyildiz, Çaglar (Wiley, 2023)

  Humanitarian organisations are increasingly utilising biometric data. However, we know little about the extent and scope of this practice, as its benefits and risks have attracted all the attention so far. This paper ...
• The dictator's legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings

  Mehrl, Marius; Escribà-Folch, Abel (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  Several countries recruit foreign nationals into their armed forces. This is despite the norm of citizen armies and the strong idea that individuals join the military to defend their home country while military service ...
• Unique data, different values: explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations

  Açıkyıldız, Çağlar (Wiley, 2024)

  Humanitarian organizations are increasingly using biometric technology. Although the existing literature comprehensively covers this issue, it overlooks the considerable divergence in approaches and policies. In fact, there ...
• Differentiation in environmental treaty making: measuring provisions and how they reshape the depth–participation dilemma

  Farias, Déborah Barros Leal; Roger, Charles B. (MIT Press, 2023)

  In this article we measure, describe, and demonstrate the importance of differential treatment for developing countries in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). So far, we argue, quantitative research on differentiation ...
• No taxation without informational foundation: on the role of legibility in tax state development

  Vom Hau, Matthias; Peres-Cajías, José Alejandro; Soifer, Hillel David (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  This article combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity. We show that information ...
• The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions

  Roger, Charles B.; Snidal, Duncan; Vabulas, Felicity (Springer, 2023)

  The study of informal international institutions has advanced considerably over the past decade. Much of this work, including our own, has approached this phenomenon from the perspective of rationalist institutionalism. ...
• Orden en transición y normas en discusión

  Barbé, Esther (CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), 2023)

  El orden internacional liberal, implantado tras el final de la Guerra Fría, es actualmente un orden en transición. El desplazamiento del poder material –tras la emergencia de China– es necesario, pero no suficiente, para ...
• Preference constellations in EU–Russian crisis bargaining over Syria and Ukraine

  Driedger, Jonas J.; Krotz, Ulrich (Wiley, 2024)

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and the ensuing EU–Russian clash over the fate of Ukraine highlight the importance of explaining the outcomes of EU–Russian crisis bargaining. Complementing existing accounts, ...
• Commerce and security meet in the European Union’s trade defence instruments

  Garcia-Duran, Patricia; Eliasson, L. Johan; Costa, Oriol (Cogitatio, 2023)

  Mercantilist policies, protectionism, Chinese and US violations of the spirit—if not always the rules—of the World Trade Organization, along with supply chain vulnerabilities, trade wars, and illegal state subsidies have ...
• La construcción discursiva de la soberanía tecnológica europea en el ámbito digital: condicionantes ideacionales y estrategias de legitimación

  Soriano, Juan Pablo (Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales, 2023)

  En un contexto de creciente competición geopolítica por la supremacía tecnológica ¿cuáles son las ideas y los discursos que utiliza la Comisión Europea (CE) para justificar y legitimar la necesidad de desarrollar la soberanía ...
• The new terrain of global governance: mapping membership in informal international organizations

  Roger, Charles B.; Rowan, Sam (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  We present a new dataset of membership in informal international organizations—IOs founded with non-binding instruments—which constitute one-third of operating IOs. We introduce state-IO-year–level membership data for 195 ...
• When independence meets reality: symbolic and pragmatic politics in Taiwan

  Lin, Tse-Min; Wu, Chun-Ying; Charm, Theodore (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  In Taiwan, where relations with China define the major political cleavage, voters have distinct preferences on the issue of independence. Do Taiwanese favor a symbolic or pragmatic approach to the Taiwan independence issue? ...
• The rush to personalize: power concentration after failed coups in dictatorships

  Timoneda, Joan C.; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Chin, John (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

  How do failed coups influence power personalization in dictatorships? While scholars have studied the mechanisms of personalism in dictatorships in detail, little attention has been paid to the timing and determinants of ...
• The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work

  Roger, Charles B. (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  Why have states increasingly relied on informal IOs as instruments of cooperation? Most research on this question has focused on identifying incentives that lead states to establish informal bodies. But attention is turning ...
• Public administration and democracy: the complementarity principle

  Bertelli, Anthony M.; Schwartz, Lindsey J. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity ...
• Renewing realist constructivism: does it have potential as a theory of foreign policy?

  Michaels, Eva (Jagiellonian University Press, 2022)

  This article raises the possibility of de- and reconstructing realist constructivism for the purpose of studying foreign policy, with an emphasis on explaining and forecasting change and continuity. I discuss why Samuel ...
• One president at a time? How the president‐elect shapes U.S. foreign policy during the transition

  Michaels, Jeffrey H.; Payne, Andrew (Wiley, 2022)

  Over the past six decades, the presidential transition scholarship has grown increasingly rich, yet little systematic attention has been paid to the foreign policy activities of the president-elect. The idea that the United ...
• Automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence in the workplace: implications for political behavior

  Gallego Dobón, Aina; Kurer, Thomas (Annual Reviews, 2022)

  New technologies have been a key driver of labor market change in recent decades. There are renewed concerns that technological developments in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence will destroy jobs and create ...

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