Mobility and friction characterized the interactions in the hinterland of the island of Manila in the eighteenth century. Although historical actors portrayed the hinterland as a distinct geographical...

Ever since humans have been on Earth, there has been migration. And with migration, come transnational attachments, sometimes creating phenomena which have been called ‘diasporas’ since the Septuagint...

This paper analyzes the effects of government spending on heterogeneous consumers. Using household level data for the U.S. from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, I document that age is a key driver of ...

The prudential role of central banks has been greatly strengthened since the 2008 financial crisis. Yet domestic institutional dynamics have produced significant divergence in institutional reform.  T...

Almost three decades of post-Soviet party research still leave important gaps in our understanding of the intra-regional variation in political development. This is mostly due to its focus only on a f...

This thesis makes the case for reading G.W.F. Hegel’s Philosophy of Right from 1820 as a pertinent contribution to the public debate on the constitutional question in post-Napoleonic Germany. Its titl...