Publications

Why does information get garbled and 'misaligned' within a government? To answer this question, this paper analyzes two policy decision schemes – decentralization and centralization – within a two-sid...chevron_right

This paper provides an approach to analyzing data on multi-bi aid, which refers to aid flows from donor countries that are channeled through multilateral organizations but earmarked by donors for spe...chevron_right

Diese Analyse untersucht am Beispiel des Abstimmungskampfes zur Volksinitiative «für eine soziale Einheitskasse» (2007) die Resonanz von politischen Medienmitteilungen in der Presseberichterstattung. ...chevron_right

This paper examines whether the Indian government is living up to its goal to end energy poverty in the country in light of its claim that it should not have to commit to global emission targets to ta...chevron_right

This paper looks at what happens to the role of the secretariat in an international organization when there is an unexpected increase in financial resources. The authors show that in certain situation...chevron_right

This paper connects political opportunity structure theory with scholarly advances on the behavior of social movements on the internet. It does this in an attempt to understand the impact of a politic...chevron_right

High levels of communal violence and instances of ethnic cleansing have inevitably complicated attempts to analyze the post-war ethnic diversity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Daniel Bochsler and Basil Schläpfer are nevertheless confident that their recent estimates will help scholars overcome this problem.chevron_right

In this paper, the argument is made that the relationship between foreign economic penetration and repression is context-dependent. Countries with high levels of human and physical capital and a sound...chevron_right

This paper analyses potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to the prioritization of project proposals given scarce funding. Based on the r...chevron_right

Do parties still represent their voters' preferences with regard to distributive policies? Negative answers can be found in the literature and they have been underlined empirically by studies showing ...chevron_right

This paper explores the properties that cross-national activities need to have in order to shape the attitudes of state officials in non-democratic countries toward democratic governance. By looking a...chevron_right

This study attempts to combine the research traditions of frame analysis in political communication studies and the study of conflicts focusing on labor market reforms with a newspaper content analysi...chevron_right

This paper links the literature on economic growth with the study of illiberal democracy and military power by testing whether democracy's effect is contingent on the military holding political power....chevron_right

Adaptation to climate change impacts can be proactive or reactive. In the case of proactive, market-based, and public policy-centered adaptation instruments, several key lessons have been learned. Thi...chevron_right

Small island states were able to obtain some remarkable achievements in the climate change negotiations by building a cohesive coalition, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Yet, this cohesiv...chevron_right