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The Realism Reader

Colin Elman

December 31, 2014

The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

Dennis C. Rasmussen

December 31, 2014

Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir

Mark Monmonier

December 31, 2014

Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century

Michael O’Hanlon, James B. Steinberg

The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.

December 31, 2014

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Thomas M. Keck

December 31, 2014

Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City

Miriam F. Elman

December 31, 2014

See related: Middle East & North Africa

Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking

Miriam F. Elman

Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

December 31, 2014

Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W. Henry Lambright

December 31, 2014

Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia

Tom Perreault

December 31, 2014

On a Preference-Based Instrumental Variable Approach in Reducing Unmeasured Confounding-by-Indication

Yun Li, Yoonseok Lee, Robert A. Wolfe, Hal Morgenstern, Jinyao Zhang, Friedrich K. Port & Bruce M. Robinson

December 28, 2014

Mandating Prescription Contraception Coverage: Effects on Contraception Consumption and Preventive Health Services

Kerri M. Raissian & Leonard M. Lopoo

December 13, 2014

Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China’s Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina

This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry.

November 30, 2014

Sources of Productivity Spillovers: Panel Data Evidence from China

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina

This paper uses a panel data-set of firms observed from 2004-2007 to assess productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry.

November 30, 2014

Correlates of State Enactment of Elementary School Physical Education Laws

Shannon M. Monnat, Monica A.F. Lounsbery & Nicole J. Smith

November 30, 2014

See related: Health Policy

On Testing for Sphericity with Non-normality in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Bin Peng

Testing for sphericity of the variance-covariance matrix in a fixed effects panel data regression model without the normality assumption on the disturbances.

November 30, 2014

Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Hausman’s Test for the Generalized Mixed Regressive Spatial Autoregressive Panel

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu

This paper gives random & fixed effects spatial 2-stage least squares estimators for the generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data model.

November 30, 2014