Articles

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Survivor: Is There an Optimal Country Size?, International Interactions (2009)

Contemporary manifestations of international integration and national disintegration have stimulated speculation on the optimal size...

 

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Efficiency, entitlements and deservingness: Perspectives on international distributive justice, Review of International Political Economy; (2007)

The paper offers a three-fold typology for comparing and assessing arguments about the political economy...

 

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A Theory of Foreign Policy, Political Science Quarterly (2007)
 

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The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade. By Michael Lusztig. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2004. 288p., Perspectives on Politics (2005)

This is an ambitious and useful book that takes the reader through eight cases of...

 

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Trade Threats, Trade Wars: Bargaining, Retaliation, and American Coercive Diplomacy, Political Science Quarterly (2004)
 

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`Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy, Journal of Politics (1999)
 

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Who voted against the NAFTA? Trade Unions versus Free Trade.Find More Like This, World Economy (1996)

Discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and trade unions position on NAFTA. History...

 

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American politics -- Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy, American Political Science Review (1995)
 

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Privateering, state sponsored violence as a tragedy of the Commons: a Reply (with Todd Sandler), Public Choice (1995)
 

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NAFTA and the Strange Coalition of Environmentalists and Protectionists: A New Threat to International Business? (with E H. McCarthy and Mark Zinkula), International Executive (1995)

This article discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the formation of a...

 

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Alternative Collective-Goods Models of Military Alliances: Theory and Empirics (with James C. Murdoch and Todd Sandler), Economic Inquiry (1994)

The public good approach to analyzing military alliances has become considerably more sophisticated since the...

 

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The Portfolio Benefits of Free Riding in Military Alliances, International Studies Quarterly (1994)

When the collective effort of a military alliance has the characteristics of a public good,...

 

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Arms Versus Alliances The Capital Structure of Military Enterprise, Journal of Conflict Resolution (1994)

If a state can choose between arming itself (by extracting resources from its domestic constituents)...

 

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Testing Formal Theories of Alliances (with James M. Lindsay and Gerald L. Sorokin), Journal of Conflict Resolution (1994)
 

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Political Action Committees and the Tragedy of the Commons (with Peverill Squire), American Politics Research (1994)

Why did the receipts of political action committees (PACs) rise to a peak in the...

 

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Trade Negotiations in the OECD, Structure, Institutions and States, World Economy (1994)
 

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Retaliating against Terrorism: Rational Expectations and the Optimality of Rules versus Discretion (with Bryan Brophy-Baermann), American Journal of Political Science (1994)

The application of rational expectations theory to policies of retaliation against terrorism suggests that only...

 

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State-sponsored violence as a tragedy of the commons: England's privateering wars with France and Spain, 1625–1630 (with Todd Sandler), Public Choice (1993)

The tragedy of the commons is the familiar problem that open access to a common...

 

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The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank, World Economy (1993)
 

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A Portfolio Diversification Model of Alliances, Journal of Conflict Resolution (1992)

The theory of finance demonstrates that diversified investment portfolios produce superior combinations of risk and...

 

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The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s, American Political Science Review (1992)
 

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Weak Cycles, Length and Magnitude of War: Duration Dependence in International Conflict, Conflict Management and Peace Science (1992)

Standard statistical tests have provided little evidence for the existence of war cycles. Cycle theorists...

 

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Parallel Politics: Economic Policymaking in Japan and the United States, World Economy (1991)
 

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Voting for protection: an electoral model of tariff policy, International Organization (1991)

The political economy of trade policy has largely neglected popular elections. When legislatures determine protection,...

 

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The European Community and the U.S, Columbia Journal of World Business (1991)
 

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The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance 1880-1914: a Collective Goods Approach (with Todd Sandler), American Political Science Review (1990)

The distribution of burdens in alliances may be explained in terms of public and private...

 

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Ruling the Waves, American Political Science Review (1990)
 

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n the Repudiation of Sovereign Debt: Sources of Stability and Risk, Columbia Journal of World Business (1990)

Sovereign debt problems are not new. High risk loans are a rational portfolio strategy and...

 

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A Random Walk Down the Road to War: War Cycles, Prices and Causality,", Defense and Peace Economics (1990)
 

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Managing International Trade Conflicts: Explanations and Prescription, Journal of International Affairs (1988)

Outlines some of the basic variables involved in international trade disputes. Varieties of trade bargaining...

 

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Air Wars: Regulation And Deregulation In The International Market, Policy Studies Review (1987)

Annual meetings of the International Air Transport Association have in recent years been the occasion...

 

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Trade Wars: A Comparative Study of Anglo-Hanse, Franco-Italian, and Hawley-Smoot Conflicts, World Politics (1985)

Three trade wars are examined using variable-sum game theory. The Anglo-Hanse trade wars (1300-1700) are...

 

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International bank lending: Political risk and portfolio diversification, Journal of Business Research (1984)

The extent to which a large U.S. bank, all U.S. banks, and banks in the...

 

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Bureaucracy, Monopoly, and Competition: A Critical Analysis of the Budget-Maximizing Model of Bureaucracy., American Journal of Political Science, (1984)

Analyzes the structure of the budget-maximizing model of bureaucracy proposed by William Niskanen in his...

 

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Public Goods, Prisoners' Dilemmas and the International Political Economy, International Studies Quarterly (1984)

The theory of public goods and prisoners' dilemma games have been widely used to characterize...

 

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Politicians and Protection: Tariffs and Elections in Australia, Public Choice (1984)

An index of manufacturing industry tariff protection is calculated for each Australian federal electoral division...

 

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Tariff protection in developed and developing countries: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis., International Organization (1983)

Trade policy is of great importance to both developed and developing countries. It has become...

 

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Explaining the growth of government expenditure: Australian government department appropriations since world war two, Australian Journal of Political Science (1983)

Abstract Political economists have concentrated on explaining the growth of total government expenditure rather than...

 

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The Rent-Seeking State and Revenue Diversification, World Politics (1982)

Economists have only recently begun to characterize the behavior of the state as rent- or...

 

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Politics And Regulation: The Public Choice Approach, Australian Journal of Public Administration (1982)

Government regulation of the economy has been the subject of criticism both on the grounds...

 

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The Private and Social Utility of Extortion, American Economic Review (1981)

A debate between Daly Giertz (1975) and Demsetz (1978) focused attention on the social efficiency...

 

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International organization and the theory of property rights, International Organization (1980)

The article presents abstracts on various articles on international relations. The abstract of article on...

 

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Evaluation of Automobile Safety Regulations: The Case of Compulsory Seat Belt Legislation in Australia, Policy Sciences (1980)

A basic tenet of the new conservatism in political economy is that government policies frequently...

 

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Global Interdependence: A Review of the Literature and Policy Implications for Australia, Australian Quarterly (1979)
 

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The Political Requisites of an Open International Economic System, Australian Outlook (1978)
 

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Public Policy and The Australian Tariff Structure, Australian Journal of Management (1978)

Political scientists and public policy analysts have neglected Australian tariff policy, leaving the subject to...

 

Books

Merging Traffic: The Consolidation of the International Automobile Industry (2003)
 

United States Foreign Economic Policy and The International Capital Markets: The Case of Capital Export Controls, 1963-1974 (1988)
 

Trade Wars: The Theory and Practice of International Commercial Rivalry (1987)
 

Contributions to Books

Trade Conflicts.”, The WTO’s Core Rules and Disciplines (2006)
 

A Random Walk Down the Road to War: War Cycles, Prices and Causality, The Economics of Conflict (2004)
 

Microeconomic Explanations of International Politics, The Analysis of International Relations (2004)
 

"Leadership by Example? Britain's Influence on the Free Trade Movement of the 19th Century, Unilateral Trade Liberalization (2002)
 

Financial Models of the Risky State.", Enforcing Cooperation: Risky States and the Intergovernmental Management of Conflict (1997)
 

International Organization and the Theory of Property Rights, International Organization: A Reader (1993)
 

Public Goods, Prisoner's Dilemmas and the International Political Economy, International Political Economy of Trade, vol I: Theories of Trade Policy (1993)
 

Public Goods, Prisoner's Dilemmas and the International Political Economy, The International System and the International Political Economy (1993)
 

Tariff Protection in Developed and Developing Countries, International Political Economy of Trade, vol I: Theories of Trade Policy (1993)
 

Trade Wars., International Political Economy of Trade Strategy and International Trade (1993)
 

1992, The Community and the World: Free Trade or Fortress Europe?", The 1992 Project and the Future of Integration in Europe (1992)
 

Managing International Trade Conflicts: Explanation and Prescription, International Relations (1990)
 

Trade Policy: Government Action in the Face of International Commercial Rivalry, American Politics in the Heartland (1990)
 

The Use of Deterrent Threats in International Trade Conflicts, Perspectives on Deterrence (1989)
 

"Trade Wars: A Comparative Study of Anglo-Hanse, Franco-Italian, and Hawley-Smoot Conflicts, Cooperation Under Anarchy (1986)