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An Experiment in Candidate Selection

By Katherine Casey, Abou Bakarr Kamara, and Niccoló F. Meriggi

American Economic Review, May 2021

Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these ...

Global Public Goods: A Survey

By Wolfgang Buchholz and Todd Sandler

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2021

This survey investigates the increasing importance of global public goods (GPGs) in today's interdependent world, driven by ever-growing, cross-border externalities and public good spillovers. Novel technologies, enhanced globalization, and population i...

Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy

By Toke S. Aidt, Facundo Albornoz, and Esther Hauk

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2021

In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in influencing policy actions i...