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PAPERS FROM 2008
	Gal Hochman, Gordon Rausser, Steve Sexton, and David Zilberman (June 30, 2008) Agricultural Biotechnology in California and the EU
	Michael Kirschner (June 30, 2008) Manufacturing industry challenges and responses to EU, California, and other product-targeted environmental regulations
	Larry Karp and Jinhua Zhao (June 30, 2008) EU-California Environmental Agreements: The Role of Trade in Emissions Permits and Escape Clauses
	Ian Clark (June 30, 2008) Identification of Lessons Learned and Suggestions for the Development of Regulatory Cooperation between California and the European Union
	Daniel Farber (June 30, 2008) Constitutional Restrictions on Regulation by American States
	Ann E. Carlson (June 30, 2008) California Motor Vehicle Standards and Federalism: Lessons for the European Union
	Peter Berck and Runar Brannlund (June 30, 2008) De-Carbonizing California and the EU
	Chris Ansell (June 30, 2008) Pesticide Regulation in the EU and California
	Megan Schwarzman and Michael P. Wilson (June 30, 2008) Cooperation on Chemicals Policy: California and the European Union
	Margaret Taylor and Javiera Barandiaran (June 30, 2008) Muddling-Through on the Cutting-Edge: How California and the European Union are Coping with the Risks of Nanotechnology
	Mark Schapiro (June 30, 2008) Regulatory Politics and Policies in the United States and Europe: Why the Difference?
	Dariush Zahedi (January 23, 2008) Political Attitudes and Patterns of Political Participation of Iranian Americans in California
PAPERS FROM 2007
	Kevin Wallsten (October 30, 2007) HOW CONSPIRACIES RISE, SPREAD AND FALL: THE CASE OF VOTER FRAUD, THE BLOGOSPHERE AND THE 2004 ELECTION
	Fred Martin (August 31, 2007) The Lost Chapter in Korean History, Evolving Democracy, and an Opportunity for Peace and Security in the North Pacific
	Adam Meirowitz and Kenneth W. Shotts (April 24, 2007) Pilots Versus Signals in Elections
	Tom Campbell and Cameron Doolittle (April 18, 2007) Term Limits and Party Loyalty
	John Morgan (April 11, 2007) On the Buyability of Voting Bodies
	Steven Callander (March 29, 2007) Political Motivations
	Georgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev, and Konstantin Sonin (March 7, 2007) Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse
	Adam Meirowitz (January 29, 2007) Secrecy and War: The Origins of Private Information
	Santiago Oliveros (January 17, 2007) Who Abstains in Equilibrium?
PAPERS FROM 2006
	Stefan Krasa and Mattias Polborn (November 15, 2006) Majority-efficiency and Competition-efficiency in a Binary Policy Model
	Michael M. Ting (November 2, 2006) Whistleblowing
	Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel (October 17, 2006) A Theory of Conflict as a Coordination Failure in Anarchic Environments
	Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate (September 27, 2006) A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt
	Alexis Diamond and Jasjeet S. Sekhon (September 18, 2006) Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies
	Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom (September 7, 2006) Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation
	Robert Powell (September 7, 2006) Defending Against Strategic Terrorists Over the Long Run: A Basic Approach to Resource Allocation
	Ernesto Dal Bo and Robert Powell (July 27, 2006) Conflict and Compromise in Hard Times
	Ricardo Ramirez, Luis Fraga, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Linda Lopez (June 6, 2006) Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation
	Dianne Bystrom (June 6, 2006) Gender and Campaign Communication: TV Ads, Web Sites, and Media Coverage
	Jennifer L. Lawless and Kathryn Pearson (June 6, 2006) The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom
	Marissa Martino Golden (June 6, 2006) Women in the Administrative State: The Impact of Motherhood and Family-Friendly Policies on Women’s Career Paths in the Federal Civil Service
	Wendy G. Smooth (June 6, 2006) A Case of Access Denied? Gender, Race and Legislative Influence
	Susan J. Carroll (June 1, 2006) The Committee Assignments of State Legislators: An Underexplored Link in Understanding Gender Differences
	Cindy Simon Rosenthal (June 1, 2006) En-Gendering Choice in Congressional Leadership Elections
	Barbara Burrell (June 1, 2006) Parties, Money, and Sex
	Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown and Melissa Neal (June 1, 2006) Female Candidates, Issues, and Political Proselytizing: Understanding Why Women Talk About Politics
	Kathleen Dolan (June 1, 2006) Symbolic Mobilization? The Impact of Candidate Sex in American Elections
	John Aldrich, Adam Brinegar, Claire Kramer, and Jennifer Merolla (April 19, 2006) Tough Choices: Determinants of Senator's Trade Votes
	Simon Hug (April 19, 2006) Selection Effects in Roll Call Voting
	William Chandler, Gary Cox, and Mathew McCubbins (April 19, 2006) Agenda Control in the German Bundestag, 1980-2002
	Thad Kousser, Jeffrey Lewis, and Seth Masket (April 19, 2006) Does the Electoral Connection Link the Branches?: Legislative Responsiveness to to Executive Elections
	Hae-Won Jun and Simon Hix (April 19, 2006) A Spatial Analysis of Voting in the Korean National Assembly
	Roger Myerson (April 19, 2006) Federalism and Incentives for Success in Democracy
	James Fearon (April 19, 2006) Self-Enforcing Democracy
	Michael McBride and Stergios Skaperdas (April 19, 2006) Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future
	Quy-Toan Do and Iyer Lakshmi (April 19, 2006) An Empirical Analysis of Civil Conflict in Nepal
	David Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni (April 19, 2006) On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West
	Abhinay Muthoo and Kenneth Shepsle (April 17, 2006) Information, Institutions, and Constitutional Arrangements
	Gene M. Grossman (April 1, 2006) Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics
	Elizabeth Maggie Penn (March 22, 2006) Institutions and Group Identity
	Matthew O. Jackson and Massimo Morelli (March 1, 2006) Political Bias and War
	Alberto Alesina and Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln (March 1, 2006) Good bye Lenin (or not?): The effect of Communism on people's preferences
	Martin Trow (February 1, 2006) Californians Redefine Academic Freedom
	Scott E. Page and Jenna Bednar (February 1, 2006) Culture, Institutional Performance, and Path Dependence
	Martin Trow (January 27, 2006) Class, Race, and Higher Education in America
	Matthew Grossmann (January 24, 2006) One Person, One Lobbyist? American Public Constituencies and Organized Representation
	Matthew Grossmann (January 24, 2006) Institutionalized Pluralism: The Prominence of Interest Organizations in National Policymaking
	Patrick Egan (January 24, 2006) Issue Ownership and Representation
	Laura Stoker and M. Kent Jennings (January 17, 2006) Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States
PAPERS FROM 2005
	Ricardo Ramirez (November 29, 2005) Residential Mobility and Latino Political Mobilization
	Frederico Finan and Claudio Ferraz (November 16, 2005) Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
	Per Petterson-Lidbom (November 10, 2005) An Empirical Approach for Estimating the Causal Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Economic Outcomes
	Luis R. Fraga (November 4, 2005) Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation
	Torben Iversen and David Soskice (October 24, 2005) Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others
	Matthew Jarvis (October 21, 2005) Ideology in Major Legislation and Public Opinion: Which is the Chicken, and Which is the Egg?
	Matias Iaryczower (October 18, 2005) Contestable Leaderships, Party Discipline and Vote Buying in Legislatures
	Stephen P. Nicholson, Adrian D. Pantoja, and Gary M. Segura (October 14, 2005) Race Matters: Latino Racial Identities and Political Beliefs
	David Karol (October 13, 2005) Party Coalitions, Interest Groups, and the Limits of Unidimensionality
	Robert P. Van Houweling and Paul M. Sniderman (September 29, 2005) The Political Logic of a Downsian Space
	Thomas Romer (September 26, 2005) Local Public Good Provision: Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility
	Robert A. Kagan, Neil Gunningham, and Dorothy Thornton (September 22, 2005) Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?
	Dorothy Thornton, Neil Gunningham, and Robert A. Kagan (September 22, 2005) General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior
	Rui J.P. de Figueiredo Jr. and Geoff Edwards (September 19, 2005) Does Private Money Buy Public Policy? Campaign Contributions and Regulatory Outcomes in Telecommunications
	Patrick J. Egan (September 14, 2005) Policy Preferences and Congressional Representation: The Relationship Between Public Opinion and Policymaking in Today's Congress
	Christopher Ansell and David Vogel (September 13, 2005) The Contested Governance of European Food Safety
	Eric Talley and Darius Lakdawalla (September 9, 2005) Optimal Liability for Terrorism
	Izabelle Garzon (September 7, 2005) Multifunctionality of Agriculture in the European Union: Is there substance behind the discourse's smoke?
	Kathy Baylis (September 7, 2005) The Agri-Environmental Nexus in the U.S. and EU
	Christina Davis (September 7, 2005) A Conflict of Institutions? The WTO and EU Agricultural Policy
	Harry de Gorter (September 7, 2005) Notes for Berkeley Conference
	Joseph Cooper (September 7, 2005) US Agri-Environmental Programs and their Potential Implications for Agricultural Trade
	Tassos Haniotis (September 7, 2005) Agri-Environmental Policy in the EU: What is the Relevance of Cap Reform
	Johan Swinnen (September 7, 2005) The Political Economy of Agri-Environmental Policies in the EU
	Eduardo Moyano (September 7, 2005) Social Actors in the Implementation of EU Agri-Environmental Policy
	Alan Swinbank (September 7, 2005) How EU Agri-Environmental Policy Might Have Differed Under Various WTO Scenarios
	Thilo Glebe (September 7, 2005) EU Agri-Environmental Payments: Appropriate Policy or Protectionism in Disguise?
	JunJie Wu (September 7, 2005) The Political Economy of Conservation Targeting Strategies
	John Bensted-Smith (September 7, 2005) The Political Economy of Agri-Environmental Policies in the US and EU
	Henry Buller (September 7, 2005) Shifting of Political Economy of EU Agrienvironmental Policy
	Daniel Sumner (September 7, 2005) The WTO and Farm Policy in the United States: Implications from Agreements, Dispute Settlement, and Current Negotiation
	Nadia Yassine (September 7, 2005) Democracy and Global Islam Comments
	Ali Ferdowsi (September 7, 2005) Comments Delivered at Democracy and Global Islam
	Ahmet Alibasic (September 7, 2005) Globalisation and Its Impact on Bosnian Muslims practices
	Marc Sageman (September 7, 2005) Global Salafi Jihad & Global Islam
	Peter Burleigh (September 7, 2005) Nepal: Western Views of the Maoist Insurgency and the Royal Takeover
	Simon Jackman (September 7, 2005) Extreme Roll Call Analysis
	Alison Gash (August 12, 2005) In Due Time: The Courts and Backlash
	Simon Hix, Abdul Noury, and Gerard Roland (August 8, 2005) Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament
	John M. Carey (August 8, 2005) Political Institutions, Competing Principals, and Party Unity in Legislative Voting
	Christophe Crombez, Tim Groseclose, and Keith Krehbiel (August 8, 2005) Gatekeeping
	Abdul Noury and Elena Mielcova (August 8, 2005) Electoral Performance and Voting Behavior
	David S. Lee (August 8, 2005) Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections
	Erik Voeten (August 8, 2005) Legislator Preferences, Ideal Points, and the Spatial Model in the European Parliament
	Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal (August 8, 2005) Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
	William B. Heller (August 8, 2005) Bedfellow Politics: The Effects of Institutional Checks on Preferences and Policy
	Howard Rosenthal (August 5, 2005) Animation: A Tool for Understanding the Dynamics of Legislatures
	Matthew G. Jarvis (August 5, 2005) The Exposure Thesis Revisited: Aggregate Seat Change and Individual Vulnerability
	Matthew G. Jarvis (August 5, 2005) Ideology in Major Legislation and Public Opinion: Which is the Chicken, and Which is the Egg?
	Martin A. Trow (August 5, 2005) Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII
	Martin A. Trow (August 5, 2005) An American Perspective on British Higher Education: The Decline of Diversity, Autonomy and Trust in Post-war British Higher Education
	Martin A. Trow (August 4, 2005) Californians Redefine Academic Freedom
	Elisabeth Anker (March 31, 2005) From Politics to Evil: Melodrama and State Power
PAPERS FROM 2004
	Georges Casamatta and Caroline De Paoli (October 5, 2004) Ex post inefficiency in a political agency model
	Donald N. Rothblatt and Steven B. Colman (August 5, 2004) Comparative Study of U.S. Metropolitan Transportation Planning
	Mark Bevir (April 28, 2004) Democratic Governance
	Scott Ashworth and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (April 22, 2004) Constituency Services with Electoral and Institutional Variations
	Scott Ashworth and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (March 9, 2004) Party Discipline with Electoral and Institutional Variations
	Stergios Skaperdas and Kai A. Konrad (February 25, 2004) What Kind of Order Out of Anarchy? Self-Governance, Autocracy, and Predatory Competition
	rafael Di Tella and Robert J. MacCulloch (February 14, 2004) Why doesn't Capitalism flow to Poor Countries?
	Gerard Roland, Torsten Persson, and Guido Tabellini (January 29, 2004) How do electoral rules shape party structures, government coalitions, and economic policies?
PAPERS FROM 2003
	Vijay Krishna and John Morgan (October 16, 2003) Contracting for Information
	Alessandro Lizzeri and Nicola Persico (September 15, 2003) The Drawbacks of Electoral Competition
	John McNulty (September 15, 2003) Republican Rise in the Rebel South
	John McNulty (September 15, 2003) Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: Turnout Affects by Race and Region - Tables and Figures
	John McNulty (September 15, 2003) Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout:Turnout Effects by Race and Region
	John Sides, Matthew Grossman, Keena Lipsitz, and Christine Trost (September 15, 2003) Candidate Attacks and Voter Aversion:The Uncertain Link Between Negativity and Campaign Satisfaction
	Louise K. Comfort, Kilkon Ko, and Adam Zagorecki (July 28, 2003) Modeling Fragility in Rapidly Evolving Disaster Response Systems
	Mark Baldassare, Mark DiCamillo, and Susan Pinkus (May 30, 2003) Polling in the Governor's Race in California
PAPERS FROM 2002
	Terri Bimes (August 27, 2002) Ronald Reagan and The New Conservative Populism
	Christopher Rudolph (June 11, 2002) Security and the Political Economy of International Migration
	Peter Lydon (April 3, 2002) Greenhouse Warming and Efficient Climate Protection Policy, with discussion of Regulation by “Price” or by “Quantity”
	Casey B. K. Dominguez (March 28, 2002) The President's Honeymoon with Congress: Explaining Reagan's 1981 Victories
	Allison Wegner (March 27, 2002) Sowing the Seeds of Conflict: A History of the Senate Confirmation Debates of President Ronald Reagan’s Appointments
PAPERS FROM 2001
	Rui J. P de Figueiredo Jr. and Barry R. Weingast (October 1, 2001) Vicious Cycles: Endogenous Political Extremism and Political Violence
	Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Jr. (August 11, 2001) Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty and Policy Insulation
	Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Jr. (July 1, 2001) Endogenous Budget Institutions And Political Insulation: Why States Adopt The Item Veto
	Louise K. Comfort (April 1, 2001) Rapidly Evolving Response Systems in Crisis Environments: An Analytical Model
	Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes (March 9, 2001) Decentering British Governance: From Bureaucracy To Networks
	Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes (March 9, 2001) A Decentered Theory of Governance: Rational Choice, Institutionalism, and Interpretation
	Louise K. Comfort and Yesim Sungu (January 8, 2001) Organizational Learning From Seismic Risk: The 1999 Marmara and Duzce, Turkey Earthquakes
	Matthew Jarvis (January 1, 2001) The Phantom Menace: Ballistic Missile Defense in Congress
	Peter Schrag (January 1, 2001) The Fourth Branch Of Government? You Bet.
	Shannon C. Stimson and Murray Milgate (January 1, 2001) Mill, Liberty And The Facts Of Life
	M. Kent Jennings and Laura Stoker (January 1, 2001) The Persistence Of The Past: The Class Of 1965 Turns Fifty
	M. Kent Jennings, Laura Stoker, and Jake Bowers (January 1, 2001) Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined
	M. Kent Jennings and Laura Stoker (January 1, 2001) Political Similarity And Influence Between Husbands And Wives
	Revan Tranter (January 1, 2001) Abag: A Concise History-Celebrating 40 Years Of Service
	Eric Schickler, Terri L. Bimes, and Robert W. Mickey (January 1, 2001) Safe At Any Speed: Legislative Intent, The Electoral Count Act Of 1887, And Bush V. Gore
	Robert Post (January 1, 2001)  The Supreme Court Opinion As Institutional Practice: Dissent, Legal Scholarship, And Decisionmaking In The Taft Court
PAPERS FROM 1999
	Kenneth F. McCue (November 17, 1999) The Statistical Foundations of the "E"