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Professor of Politics
B.A. Cornell, 1989; PhD Harvard 1995.
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My Current Work
Size, Credit, and Representation: European State Development, 1250-1750 (book project).
"Geographic Scale and Constitutional Control in the Process of European State Formation"
"The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation." (with Ken Scheve).
Books
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789, Cambridge University Press, Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series, 224 p., 2003. [Excerpt]
Articles
"Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run", World Politics, 2009 forthcoming (with Ken Scheve).
"Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve", Economic Journal, 2008(with Ellen Meade)
"Polarization and Publicity: Rethinking the Benefits of Deliberative Democracy", Journal of Politics, vol.69, no.1, pp.59-72, 2007
“Cities, Constitutions, and Sovereign Borrowing in Europe, 1274-1785”, International Organization, vol.61, pp.489-525, 2007
"Partisan Politics and Public Debt: The Importance of the Whig Supremacy for Britain's Financial Revolution" European Review of Economic History, vol.11, pp.123-153, 2007
"The Political Economy of Religion and Social Insurance in the United States, 1910-1939", Studies in American Political Development vo1.20 pp.132-159, 2006 (with Ken Scheve).
"Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance", Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol.1, no.3, pp.255-286, 2006 (with Ken Scheve).
"Democracy and Education Spending in Africa"
American Journal of Political Science 49(2), pp. 343-58, 2005
"The Role of Democracy in Uganda's Move to Universal Primary Education"
Journal of Modern African Studies 43(1), pp. 53-73, 2005
"Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining"
International Organization, 58(4), pp. 667-704, 2004
"Transparency, Democratic Accountability, and the Economic Consequences of Monetary Institutions"
American Journal of Political Science 47(3), pp. 389-402, 2003
"The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy" (with Philip Keefer)
American Political Science Review 97(3), pp. 407-23, 2003
"When are Monetary Commitments Credible? Parallel Agreements and the Sustainability of Currency Unions" (with Dominique Guillaume)
British Journal of Political Science. 32, 119-146, 2002
"Private Investment and Political Institutions"
Economics & Politics 14(1), pp. 41-63, 2002
"Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments" (with Philip Keefer)
International Organization 56(4), pp. 751-74, 2002
"Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and Weingast Revisited"
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 18(1), pp.155-86, 2002
Book Chapters
"Does Transparency Make a Difference? The Example of the European Council of Ministers" , in David Heald and Christopher Hood (eds.) Transparency, the Key to Better Governance?, British Academy/Oxford University Press.
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