Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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Agricultural trade liberalization, governance quality, and technical efficiency in the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia. [PDF]
Trakem V, Fan H.
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Endogenous opposition: Identity and ideology in Kuwaiti electoral politics
Abstract How do opposition elites succeed in authoritarian elections? Existing theories of authoritarian politics suggest a pivotal role for elections in enhancing the survival of incumbent dictators. Yet, in many contexts, opposition elites attract considerable support and constrain the policymaking authorities of these dictators.
Daniel L. Tavana
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Trade Liberalization with Heterogenous Firms [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization with heterogeneous firms using the Melitz (2003) model. We find a number of novel results and effects including a Stolper-Samuelson like result and several results related to the volume of trade ...
Richard E. Baldwin, Rikard Forslid
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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Effects of trade liberalization on the global decoupling and decomposition of CO2 emissions from economic growth. [PDF]
Baajike FB +3 more
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Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade
Abstract Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through
Hao Zhang
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Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter [PDF]
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments.
de Melo, Jaime +2 more
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How FDI reshapes host markets’ trade profile and politics
Abstract A fast‐growing literature indicates that firms’ engagement in foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is key to understanding deepening global value chains and their political implications. However, existing studies have mainly focused on the ramifications for FDI home countries while often overlooking the firm‐product level interactions ...
In Song Kim, Steven Liao, Sayumi Miyano
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Trends in tariff reforms and trends in wage inequality [PDF]
The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries. While most of the current literature on the topic achieves identification by comparing outcomes before and after one episode of trade ...
Galiano, Sebastian, Porto, Guido G.
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