Status Inconsistency, Cross Pressures, and American Political Behavior

Political Structure and Military Behavior in the American Indian Wars

The American Indian Wars provide unusual insight into debates about group structure and military behavior. These conflicts present a cross-section of experience with a relatively high degree of unit homogeneity; it is possible to gather information on tribes that fought as well as those that did not; scholars have recorded information about the tribes’ political and economic structures in detai...

Trade Agreements under Political Pressures

We study in this paper the welfare effects of different types of trade agreements and the equilibrium outcome of trade negotiation, when the objective of each government is politically motivated. We explore a three-country and three-good trade model with endogenous tariffs and export subsidies in a political economy framework. In this context, we suggest that the welfare effects of both bilater...

2011Uprising and Tunisian Women’s Socio-political Status

AbstractA street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest after a police officer seized his cart and produce. This embarked a set of social Unrest and demonstrations across Tunisia and the events rapidly exceeded Tunisia to many other Arab Countries. Now, more than six years after the start of uprisings in Arab States, Tunisia is almost the only country that emerged as a dem...

Polarized Churches : The Political Sorting of American Religious Behavior ‖

American Political Polarization

In 2008, when fresh-faced presidential candidate Barack Obama coasted to electoral victory, it was clear that the world had ended. Flabbergastingly, in an insane display of misjudgment, the American people had elected to office a president who, according to one prominent GOP member, would 'pal around with terrorists,' a president whose socialistic temperaments signaled the dawn of a new and dar...