European Integration, Intergovernmental Bargaining, and Convergence of Party Programmes

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

Networks of Intergovernmental Organizations and Convergence in Domestic Economic Policies

We studied three potential causal mechanisms through which network dynamics of intergovernmental organizations (IGO) might cause convergence in domestic economic policies. First, IGO networks facilitate policy learning by providing relevant information. Second, they encourage policy emulation by creating a sense of affinity among countries that are closely connected by IGO networks. Finally, so...

Downs and Two-party Convergence

We take as our starting point the insights of Downs (1957) into twoparty competition. A careful reading of Downs offers a much more sophisticated and nuanced portrait of the factors affecting party differentiation than the simplistic notion that, in plurality elections, we ought to expect party convergence to the views of the median voter. Later scholars have built on Downsian ideas to see what...

The Problem of Party Convergence

Reputation and Repeated Bargaining with a Third Party∗

We study repeated bargaining between a privately informed long-run player and a sequence of short-run players. Should the players fail to reach an agreement, an unbiased yet imperfect third party is called upon to make a decision. In contrast to standard reputation models, the benefit from reputation is low. We construct a Markov perfect equilibrium and characterize its reputation building dyna...