Picking Winners?
April 14, 2015
How do governments choose which industries to favor? If governments are largely motivated by the national economic interest, then industrial selection would be biased in favor of picking winners. If,
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Small States in International Relations
April 8, 2015
Smaller nations have a special place in the international system, with a striking capacity to defy the expectations of most observers and many prominent theories of international relations. This volume
Expect Us
April 3, 2015
People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site’s main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online
Strong Societies and Weak States
April 2, 2015
Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations–in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a
Electrifying India
April 1, 2015
Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and