▪ Abstract With tools borrowed from the economic analysis of insurance, principal-agency
theory has allowed political scientists new insights into the role of information asymmetry …

▪ Abstract International relations theory has long seen the origins, conduct, and termination
of war as a bargaining process. Recent formal work on these issues draws very heavily on …

Building on the success of the first edition, this revised volume re-invigorates the
conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the …

A considerable body of work in political science is built upon the assumption that politicians
are more purposive, strategic decision makers than the citizens who elect them. At the same …

How do domestic institutions affect autocratic leaders' decisions to initiate military conflicts?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, I argue that institutions in some kinds of dictatorships …

Scholars for a long time theorized about the role of political leaders, but empirical research
has been limited by the lack of systematic data about individual leaders. Archigos is a new …

We examine the theoretical implications of the observation that ethnic identities are socially
constructed for explaining ethnic violence, distinguishing between two classes of …

We examine formally the link between domestic political institutions and policy choices in
the context of eight empirical regularities that constitute the democratic peace. We …

Principal-agent models have been the basis for an extensive set of studies relating
bureaucracy to elected officials. Yet despite the outpouring of research, there has been little …

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive
analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars …