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The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is an academic research institution and a joint initiative of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. The center brings together scholars from the disciplines of political science, history, and economics, promoting interdisciplinary cooperation both in research and in teaching. The CIS Working Paper series allows CIS members to publish interim results of their ongoing research in comparative politics and international relations.

Publishers: Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
Publications: The Politics of Double-Delegation in the European Union
Regional Resources and Democratic Secessionism
Building National Identity? The Causal Effect of Homogenization Policies in Alsace-Lorraine
What Determines Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations? Evidence from the New Multi-bi Aid Data
Donor Accountability Reconsidered: Aid Allocation in the Age of Global Public Goods
Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architecture: Theory and Evidence
Multi-Bi Aid: Tracking the Evolution of Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations from 1990 to 2012
Global Climate Policy and Local Energy Politics: Is India Hiding behind the Poor?
Die politischen Akteure und ihre mediale Existenz
The Distribution of Ethnic Identities in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Political Regimes and the Use of the Internet by Social Movements
Bureaucratic Influence when Secretariats Grow: The Example of the UNFCCC
Policy Congruence and Distributive Politics
The Effect of Military Political Power on Economic Development in de jure Democracies
Multinational Investment, Trade and the Right to Physical Integrity
Equity and Cost-Effectiveness of Multilateral Adaptation Finance
Transnational Influences and Socialization into Democratic Administrative Governance in Authoritarian Contexts
Framing Employment Relations in Western Europe
Market Mechanisms for Adaptation to Climate Change
AOSIS in the UNFCCC Negotiations: From Unity to Fragmentation?
Einstellungen zur Globalisierung
Development Cooperation and Climate Change
Path Dependence of Negotation Structures in International Organizations
India in the International Climate Negotiations
Varieties of Capitalist Debates
The Business of Development
The Impact of World Bank and IMF Programs on Democratization in Developing Countries
Climate Change Governance
Climate Change Mitigation in Advanced Developing Countries
The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Mechanism
Parteienangebot und politische Repräsentation in der Schweiz
Climate Business for Poverty Reduction?
Old Wine in New Bottles?
The Effect of Integration on Immigrants' School Performance
Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment?
Integration Policies in Federal Settings
Who Hosts the Clean Development Mechanism?
Ganyu Labour in Malawi
Keeping a Big Promise
Does Global Climate Policy Promote Low-Carbon Cities?
Who Gains From Apparentments Under D’Hondt?
The Causes of Politicization of Ethnicity
Is Left–Right from Circleland?
The Democratic Legitimacy of Urban Planning Procedures
Issue Ownership and Issue Salience Effects
Motivstrukturen unter Stimmzwang
Do Software Patents Hamper/Free Open Source Software Development?
Mononationales Deutschland? Multinationale Schweiz?
Politische Einbindung von Islamisten in den Staaten des Nahen Ostens
When the Spate is Your Fate
Sanctioning, Clientelism, and Politicization
Der Klient und sein Patron - oder warum man in Burkina Faso wählen geht
Poverty Reduction Strategies, Democratization and the Role of the World Bank
Business as Usual? Analyzing the Effects of Enlargement on EU Legislative Output
The Effects of Customer Benefit and Regulation on Environmental Product Innovation
UN Approval of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Projects in Developing Countries
De facto-Souveränität in den Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion
Oligarchization, Formalization, Adaptation? Linking Sociological Theory and EU Enlargement Research
Anticipation in Legislative Politics: The Case of EU Enlargement
Capacity Building through Research Partnership - A Case Study on Decentralisation and Governance in Northern Albania
The Role of Civil Society in Decentralisation and Alleviating Poverty
Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa
Does Neutrality Make a Difference? Explaining Patterns of Swiss Defense Spending in 1975-2001
Taking Firms and Markets Seriously: A Study on Bank Behavior, Market Discipline, and Regulation
Evaluation institutioneller Lösungen des öffentlichen Agglomerationsverkehrs
The European Commission and its Legislative Activity - Not as Integrationist and Autonomous as Believed
Federalism, the Geographic Location of Groups and Conflict
A Cross-National Comparative Study of the Policy Effects of Referendums
Dispute-Escalation in the WTO: Are Conflicts Over Environment, Health and Safety Regulation Riskier?
The Effect of Misclassifications in Probit Models: Monte Carlo Simulations and Applications
Le rôle des organisations de la société civile dans le processus de la décentralisation
Green Management and Green Technology: Exploring the Causal Relationship
Selection Effects in Roll Call Votes
States as Providers of Public Goods: How Does Government Size Affect Environmental Quality?
Effects of Bilateral Trade on International Environmental Problem Solving
Assessing the Performance of International Water Management at Lake Titicaca
Policy Responses to Speculative Attacks Before and After Elections: Theory and Evidence
Explaining Green Innovation
Estimating the Performance of International Regulatory Regimes
On the Interconnectedness of Regulatory Policy and Markets
Die Perfekte Partei
The Impact of Diverging Transatlantic GMO Regulations on the Management of Natural Resources in Developing Countries
Social Networks Among Return Migrants to Post-War Lebanon
Nahrungsmittelhilfe in der Somali Region Äthiopiens 1983-2004
Organisationen und politische Partizipation
Cultural Plurality, National Identity and Consensus in Bhutan
Globalization and the Transformation of the National Political Space
On the Political Determinants of Environmental Quality
European Food Safety: Multilevel Governance, Re-Nationalization, or Centralization?
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