Bureaucracy and the Failure of Politics: Challenges to Democratic Governance
Bureaucratic reforms worldwide seek to improve the quality of governance. In this article, we argue that the major governance failures …
Interpretation: The Final Spatial Frontier
The use of spatial econometric models in political science has steadily risen in recent years. However, the interpretation of these …
Developing Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Messaging for At-Risk Youth: Early Lessons from 'The Real Cost' Smokeless Campaign
Introduction: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use continues to be a significant public health challenge in the United States, particularly …
What Is and What May Never Be: Economic Voting in Developing Democracies
Objective: We propose and test a theory that media freedom determines the extent of economic voting in developing democracies. Methods: …
Are Media at Work in Your Neighborhood? The Effects of Media Freedom, Internet Access, and Information Spillover on Workers’ Rights
Objective: In this study, we focus on how access to information empowers workers and pressures government and firms to improve labor …
Administrative Capacity and Health Care in Africa: Path Dependence as a Contextual Variable
We examine the role of administrative capacity on health outcomes in 36 African nations using the path dependence of being a British …
Does Information Lead to Emulation? Spatial Dependence in Anti-Government Violence
This study examines whether acts of anti-government violence exhibit spatial dependence across state boundaries. In other words, to …
Stata and Political Science
Stata is today one of the two most popular statistics programs among political scientists. The rise of Stata to this status roughly …
Defining Opposition: An Interview with Afonso Dhlakama of RENAMO
Afonso Dhlakama has run in all four multiparty presidential elections in Mozambique. Before that, he led a guerrilla resistance known …
The 2009 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Mozambique
Armando Guebuza won reelection by an overwhelming margin. FRELIMO gained further control of the parliament. RENAMO had only a small …