Does the creation of nominally democratic institutions help dictators stay in power by diminishing risk coups? We posit that effectiveness political deterring coups crucially depends on types plotters and their goals. By providing a means to address ruling coalition’s primary concerns about dictator’s opportunism or incompetence, reduce necessity reshuffling coups, which coalition replaces an i...

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...

While technological change is a dominant social force, international political economists have not developed theories of the political foundations of technology adoption. We analyze a gametheoretic model of clean technology adoption and derive the following predictions. First, foreign countries should support clean technology adoption in countries with secure property rights and democratic poli...

This article examines the effects of migration experience on political attitudes in Central and Eastern European countries. The rationale for this quest is the hypothesis that contact with democratic contexts translates into democratic political attitudes, for which evidence is so far inconclusive. In this article, we are interested to see whether migrants returning from Western countries displ...

This paper examines political attitudes and behavioural intentions of immigrants in the ® eld of voting behaviour. Based on a quantitative survey of the population of Turkish origin in Mannheim, Germany, and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that the political attitudes of immigrants re ̄ ect their marginal legal status: immigrants show a lower interest in the political ...