Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · March 1, 2024
The secretive, illegal, multidimensional, and ubiquitous nature of corruption leads to formidable difficulties in research design and measurement. When research fails to account for these challenges, it can lead to an empirical misalignment with concepts a ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Comparative International Development · March 1, 2024
What motivates private firms’ willingness to invest in green technologies and environmentally friendly operations? Some emphasize enhanced government regulation and enforcement, while others point to the greater potential of societal pressure. In this stud ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Political Science · January 22, 2024
Can culture constrain policy implementation - and if so, under what conditions and for whom? In this paper, we test to what extent traditional values of numerology in China impeded the environmental benefits of a well-designed license plate policy. We take ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Peace Research · January 1, 2024
Theoretical and empirical research on causes and consequences of defense spending is plentiful. Most of this research uses ‘top line’ defense spending data, either as a share of GDP or as a raw monetary figure. Empirical research has been limited, however, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · October 1, 2023
Despite strong theoretical foundations, randomized evaluations demonstrate that subnational performance assessments have a mixed record in improving governance. We suggest that a key factor influencing this disappointing result has been the omission of fac ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · May 8, 2023
A growing body of evidence attests that legislators are sometimes responsive to the policy preferences of citizens in single-party regimes, yet debate surrounds the mechanisms driving this relationship. We experimentally test two potential responsiveness m ...
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Journal ArticleAsian Survey · April 1, 2023
Vietnam in 2022 was beset with numerous dramatic political developments and diplomatic uncertainties but also recorded significant economic achievements. Changes in the top echelons of power took place in an unprecedented manner due to the intensifying ant ...
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Journal ArticleFulbright Review of Economics and Policy · December 15, 2022
PurposeSingle-party regimes increasingly use Subnational Performance Assessments (SPAs) – rankings of provinces and districts – to improve governance outcomes. SPAs assemble and ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · September 1, 2022
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a core component of a robust civil society and operate in a wide variety of sectors, ranging from service delivery to political advocacy. However, research has yet to systematically investigate whether the impact of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · July 1, 2022
This article builds on recent experimental work in the Vietnamese National Assembly to explore a critical qualification regarding responsiveness in authoritarian parliaments: delegates grow increasingly responsive as the number of peers possessing the same ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2022
Despite a deep literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill this gap by analyzin ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and Politics · November 1, 2021
Which is more reassuring to foreign investors—domestic laws or international agreements? A substantial literature argues that foreign investment may be underprovided, because governments cannot offer credible guarantees that judicial institutions are impar ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and Politics · November 1, 2021
We explore and provide an empirical assessment of an important mechanism by which global markets can motivate labor-related upgrading among developing country firms. New market opportunities, which result from exogenous shocks, can some producers to improv ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 2021
Trade and investment have contributed to the improvement of living standards in developing countries, but have also put severe pressure on natural environments. How do citizens in low-income countries manage this trade-off between economic growth and envir ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Political Science · October 18, 2021
When do well-intended regulatory regimes have unintended consequences? We examine one obstacle to successful regulation, “regulatory leakage,” in the context of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (ABC). Leakage occurs when regulated behavior decreases for ac ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · October 1, 2021
We investigate whether communicating constituents’ preferences to legislators increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Using a randomized control trial, we assign legislators to three groups: (1) those briefed on ...
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Journal ArticleProblems of Post-Communism · January 1, 2021
In exploring the role of factions, personalism, and legislative behavior in the two states, the three contributions in this issue dispense with the simplistic notion of a China or Vietnam “Model” of political economy, but instead explain the politics behin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization · September 1, 2020
This paper studies how corruption affects two fundamental dimensions of a firm's tax compliance: the likelihood of tax registration (possession of a tax ID) and the tax compliance ratio (the ratio between the firm's tax payment and revenue). We explore a c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Studies · March 1, 2024
The secretive, illegal, multidimensional, and ubiquitous nature of corruption leads to formidable difficulties in research design and measurement. When research fails to account for these challenges, it can lead to an empirical misalignment with concepts a ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Comparative International Development · March 1, 2024
What motivates private firms’ willingness to invest in green technologies and environmentally friendly operations? Some emphasize enhanced government regulation and enforcement, while others point to the greater potential of societal pressure. In this stud ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Political Science · January 22, 2024
Can culture constrain policy implementation - and if so, under what conditions and for whom? In this paper, we test to what extent traditional values of numerology in China impeded the environmental benefits of a well-designed license plate policy. We take ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Peace Research · January 1, 2024
Theoretical and empirical research on causes and consequences of defense spending is plentiful. Most of this research uses ‘top line’ defense spending data, either as a share of GDP or as a raw monetary figure. Empirical research has been limited, however, ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · October 1, 2023
Despite strong theoretical foundations, randomized evaluations demonstrate that subnational performance assessments have a mixed record in improving governance. We suggest that a key factor influencing this disappointing result has been the omission of fac ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · May 8, 2023
A growing body of evidence attests that legislators are sometimes responsive to the policy preferences of citizens in single-party regimes, yet debate surrounds the mechanisms driving this relationship. We experimentally test two potential responsiveness m ...
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Journal ArticleAsian Survey · April 1, 2023
Vietnam in 2022 was beset with numerous dramatic political developments and diplomatic uncertainties but also recorded significant economic achievements. Changes in the top echelons of power took place in an unprecedented manner due to the intensifying ant ...
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Journal ArticleFulbright Review of Economics and Policy · December 15, 2022
PurposeSingle-party regimes increasingly use Subnational Performance Assessments (SPAs) – rankings of provinces and districts – to improve governance outcomes. SPAs assemble and ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · September 1, 2022
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a core component of a robust civil society and operate in a wide variety of sectors, ranging from service delivery to political advocacy. However, research has yet to systematically investigate whether the impact of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · July 1, 2022
This article builds on recent experimental work in the Vietnamese National Assembly to explore a critical qualification regarding responsiveness in authoritarian parliaments: delegates grow increasingly responsive as the number of peers possessing the same ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2022
Despite a deep literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill this gap by analyzin ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and Politics · November 1, 2021
Which is more reassuring to foreign investors—domestic laws or international agreements? A substantial literature argues that foreign investment may be underprovided, because governments cannot offer credible guarantees that judicial institutions are impar ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleEconomics and Politics · November 1, 2021
We explore and provide an empirical assessment of an important mechanism by which global markets can motivate labor-related upgrading among developing country firms. New market opportunities, which result from exogenous shocks, can some producers to improv ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 2021
Trade and investment have contributed to the improvement of living standards in developing countries, but have also put severe pressure on natural environments. How do citizens in low-income countries manage this trade-off between economic growth and envir ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Political Science · October 18, 2021
When do well-intended regulatory regimes have unintended consequences? We examine one obstacle to successful regulation, “regulatory leakage,” in the context of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (ABC). Leakage occurs when regulated behavior decreases for ac ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleJournal of Politics · October 1, 2021
We investigate whether communicating constituents’ preferences to legislators increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Using a randomized control trial, we assign legislators to three groups: (1) those briefed on ...
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Journal ArticleProblems of Post-Communism · January 1, 2021
In exploring the role of factions, personalism, and legislative behavior in the two states, the three contributions in this issue dispense with the simplistic notion of a China or Vietnam “Model” of political economy, but instead explain the politics behin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization · September 1, 2020
This paper studies how corruption affects two fundamental dimensions of a firm's tax compliance: the likelihood of tax registration (possession of a tax ID) and the tax compliance ratio (the ratio between the firm's tax payment and revenue). We explore a c ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · July 1, 2020
Studies of firm bribery have not fully examined how market competition conditions the effects of social norms on firms’ bribe payments. We suggest that firms pay bribes to obtain abnormal rents and/or to conform to accepted rules of corruption. These motiv ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of East Asian Studies · March 1, 2020
Why do voters in single-party regimes express support for the ruling party in such large numbers? Scholars offer three sets of explanations: 1) Support is manipulated by regime leaders or falsified by frightened voters; 2) Support is due to genuine popular ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Economics · July 1, 2019
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set ...
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Journal ArticleStrategy Science · June 1, 2019
This paper examines two concerns with calls for increased participation by firms in the government design of regulations in emerging markets. First, given the profit maximization goals of firms, can the benefits of business participation be realized withou ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Journal · January 1, 2019
This article tests whether firm growth reduces corruption, using data from over 10,000 Vietnamese firms. We employ instrumental variables based on growth in a firm’s industry in other provinces within Vietnam and in China. We find that firm growth reduces ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Political Science · July 1, 2018
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Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor standards and practices? We anticipate variation among internationally engaged firms in their propensity to improve labor standards. Upgrading is most likely when a f ...
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Book · March 15, 2018
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Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these polici ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Organization · January 1, 2018
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International relations scholarship has made great progress on the study of compliance with international agreements. While persuasive, most of this work has focused on states' de jure compliance decisions, largely excluding the de facto behavior of nonsta ...
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Journal ArticleAcademy of Management Journal · October 1, 2017
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Firms in emerging economies exhibit dangerously low rates of compliance with government regulations aimed at protecting society from the negative externalities of their operations. This study builds on individual-level theories from organizational behavior ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · March 1, 2017
We argue that NATO allies exhibiting more "Atlanticist" strategic cultures allocate a greater share of their defense resources to Alliance priorities than those exhibiting "Europeanist" strategic cultures. Our analysis builds on policy discussions regardin ...
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Book · February 27, 2017
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China is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented far-reaching governance reforms designed to promote government ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · November 1, 2016
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In 2015, Comparative Political Studies embarked on a landmark pilot study in research transparency in the social sciences. The editors issued an open call for submissions of manuscripts that contained no mention of their actual results, incentivizing revie ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Review · December 1, 2015
Transfer pricing will require the emergence of an international institution, a global agreement that guards against the race to the bottom by standardizing treatment of MNCs by developing countries. Without an international solution, developing countries w ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics of Transition · October 1, 2015
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A large literature asserts a causal relationship between the quality of economic governance and economic performance. However, attempts to establish such a link at an aggregate level have met with considerable methodological criticism. This paper seeks to ...
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Journal ArticlePublic Choice · August 11, 2015
The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. In this study, we examine the domestic politics of this competition by focusing ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Political Science · April 1, 2015
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Prevailing work argues that foreign investment reduces corruption, either by competing down monopoly rents or diffusing best practices of corporate governance. We argue that the mechanisms generating this relationship are not clear because the extant empir ...
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Journal ArticleAsian Survey · February 1, 2015
The May 2014 entry of a Chinese deep-water oil rig into Vietnamese waters deeply shocked Vietnam. This yearend article chronicles the impact of the controversial action on (1) power struggles among elite politicians, (2) alterations in foreign policy orien ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Studies Quarterly · September 1, 2014
Both countries and subnational governments commonly engage in competition for mobile capital, offering generous incentives to attract investment. Existing economics research has suggested that these tax incentives have a limited ability to affect investmen ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · January 1, 2014
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Comparative political economy offers a wealth of hypotheses connecting decentralization to improved public service delivery. In recent years, influential formal and experimental work has begun to question the underlying theory and empirical analyses of pre ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Political Science · January 1, 2014
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Two theories predominate in discussions of why China and Vietnam have, over the past three decades, achieved such rapid economic growth. The first argues that their startling performance can be explained by economic factors associated with late industriali ...
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Journal ArticleAsian Survey · January 1, 2014
This essay reviews Vietnamese politics in 2013 through the lens of the constitutional drafting process and the unprecedented confidence vote in the National Assembly. Both events were framed by the country's ongoing economic struggles, elite political cont ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of East Asian Studies · 2013
A commonly proffered theory to explain the use of elections in authoritarian regimes is that they help identify talented young leaders who can be groomed for leadership positions. Unfortunately, due to the difficulties of obtaining data in authoritarian se ...
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Journal ArticleBritish Journal of Politics · 2013
A growing literature demonstrates a strong statistical association between the presence of legislative opposition in authoritarian regimes and investment. This finding has been interpreted as evidence that authoritarian legislatures constrain executive de ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Asian Economics · 2013
This paper aims to quantitatively evaluate the microeconomic consequences of the four percent interest rate subsidy program – the main component of the Vietnamese government’s economic stimulus package in 2009¬, which was intended assist recovery from the ...
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Book · December 1, 2012
For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace, prosperity, and democracy in an increasingly globalized market. More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct investment has raised questions about its impact upon local economies and pol ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · December 2012
Which components of power sharing contribute to the duration of peace and what explains the linkages between institutional design and stability? The authors argue that certain types of political power sharing are associated with more durable peace than oth ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · November 2012
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An influential literature has demonstrated that legislative transparency can improve the performance of parliamentarians in democracies. In a democracy, the incentive for improved performance is created by voters’ responses to newly available information. ...
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Journal ArticleLegislative Studies Quarterly · November 1, 2011
The literature on authoritarian institutions points to nationwide elections as a mechanism for learning about the preferences of citizens. In using elections in this way, however, authoritarians face a trade-off between gathering reliable information and g ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Politics · January 1, 2011
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Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing economies over the past two decades,their income inequality patterns are very different. An examination of the political institutions in the two countries shows that profound ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Law, Economics, and Organization · October 1, 2009
Rapid development of the domestic private sector in communist China and Vietnam has been offered as evidence against a large literature that claims a solid legal infrastructure is required for the financial sector to contribute to economic development. One ...
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