One indication of the quality a scholarly study is surely extent to which it passes test time. Babül's how universal human rights discourses are translated into local contexts in European Union training courses for Turkish government officials this with flying colors. Even five years after its publication, book well worth reading. Babül shows principles negotiated these trainings. She demonstra...

Congressional oversight is a potentially potent tool to affect policy making and implementation by executive agencies. However, of any agency dispersed among several committees across the House Senate. How does this decentralization strategic incentives for each committee? And how do align with collective interest Congress as whole? We develop formal, spatial model decentralized investigate the...

Authoritarian leaders rely on regional for both political support and the fulfillment of their policy objectives. In addition, top face trade-offs between following established rules managing bureaucratic officials’ careers exercising a free hand in choosing officials. This paper compares patterns appointment officials Russia China before after 2012. recent years, countries have centralized per...