Centers are listed in the section for Institutions
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Aarhus School of Business, Dept. of Org. & Mgt

Papers arranged by year beginning with 2000.  Some titles include
"Identity, Space and Politics: The Europeanization Process Between Necessity and Personal Choice. A case study of the Danish and the Italian Customs Administration" (2000);
"The response of old technology incumbents to technological competition - Does the sailing ship effect exist?" (2000);
"Gender Differences and Informal Networks in a Scandinavian Context" (2001);
"Leadership and Management Theories Revisited" (2001);  and
"Trends and patterns in contemporary management in smaller companies: The Danish Perspective" (2001).

 

American Democracy, Notre Dame

Representative titles include
"Ideological Proximity and Cheap Talk Lobbying" (2003);
"Up from the Underground: Ellison on Equality" (2003);
"Effecting a Progressive Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft and the Pursuit of Strategic Resources" (2002);
"Conversion or Mobilization? Using Religion's Growing Potency in U.S. Politics to Revisit Realignment Theory" (2002);  and
"Democracy and Corruption in the 19th Century United States: Parties, Spoils and Political Participation" (2002).

 

Berkeley Law & Economics Working Paper Series

University of California, Berkeley. Topics vary and the papers begin in 1997.

 

Binghamton University

Papers are arranged in the following categories: Public Opinion; Citizens and Markets; Assessing Democracy; and Conflict and Democracy.

 

Brown University, Dept. of Philosophy

 

California State University

State and local topics from the Public Policy and Administration department.

 

Columbia Law School, Law & Economics

Representative titles include

"Administrative Law and Political Economy--Report on a Conference of Columbia's Center for Law and Economic Studies";
"What Do Prosecutors Prosecute?";
"Patterns of Legal Change: Shareholder and Creditor Rights in Transition Economies";
"Co-determination in Germany: A Socio-Political Model with Governance Externalities";
"Executive Compensation: If There's a Problem, What's the Remedy? The Case for "Compensation Disclosure and Analysis";
"Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy";
"Risk Management in Long-Term Contracts";
"The United Airline Bankruptcy and the Future of Employee Ownership";  and
"Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy."

 

Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Management, Politics & Philosophy

Papers arranged by year beginning in 1999.  Some titles include
"The Theory of Positive Self-Reference" (2002);
"Dealing with knowledge sharing hostility Insights from six case studies " (2001);

"The Categorical Imperative Analyzing Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for A Metaphysics of Morals" (2002);  and
"Managing the Dynamic Interfaces Between Culture and Knowledge: A Research Agenda" (2002).

 

Eastern Illinois University

These conference papers from the EIU department of political science fall within comparative politics.

Georgetown University

Large database of economy-specific papers.

Harvard University, Crime and Criminal Justice

Harvard : John Kennedy School of Government

Political Economy, Political Theory, Law and the Courts, American Politics, Political Communication, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Race and Gender Politics, Environmental Politics, and Electoral Politics comprise this large database of working papers.

Harvard: Department of Health Care Policy

Harvard Medical School. Publications begin in 1997 and end in 1999.

 

Georgia State University

Example titles include

"Alexander Hamilton, Party Polarization, and Confidence in Governmental Institutions during the Clinton Impeachment Trial" (2004);  and
"Regulation Decision-Making on State Supreme Courts" (2004).

 

MIT, Dept. of Political Science

Topics vary but papers are in the process of being organized into the following topics: American Politics; Comparative Politics; International Relations and Security Studies; Political Economy; and Political Philosophy and Social Theory. Representative titles include
"Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?" (2002);
"Sovereignty and Solidarity: EU and US" (2003);  and
"Why States Believe Foolish Ideas: Non-Self-Evaluation By States And Societies" (2002).

 

New York University, Dept. of Politics

Representative titles include

"Is There a Broader-Deeper Tradeoff?" (2003);
"On the Political Strength of Regulated Industries and the Conditional Nature of Regulatory Autonomy" (2003);
"Public Goods and Political Unions" (2003);
"Fallacies of Nationalism" (2003);
"Law and Social Order" (2001);
"The Normative Core of Rational Choice Theory" (2001);
"Electoral Institutions and the Evolution of Partisan Conventions" (2004);
"The Limits of Judicial Independence: The Supreme Court's Constitutional Rulings, 1987-2000" (2004);
"Research and Welfare Reform" (2004);
"Decisiveness of Contributors' Perceptions in Elections" (2003);
"Proportionality versus Perfectness: Experiments in Majoritarian Bargaining" (2003);
"Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions" (2004);
"Unions as Mobilizing Institutions in the U.S., 1964-2000" (2003); and
"Institutions, Expectations, and Currency Crises" (2004).

 

Nuffield College, Oxford

The working-paper series covers all areas of political science.

 

Queen's University, School of Policy Studies

 Ontario. Topics vary and main theme is general Canadian politics.

 

Social Policy and Social Work

University of Oxford. The site includes working papers, unpublished papers, and links to pages of individual members. Some topics include poverty, population, family, children, and social inequality.

 

Southwestern University, Arts & Sciences

Representative titles include

"Privatization by Franchising: Commissioned Entrepreneurs" (2005);
"Celebrity Athletes and Sports Imagery in Advertising During NFL Telecasts" (2005);
"An Emancipated, Intellectualized Bundle of Nerves: New Woman Identity and Hysteria in Nineteenth Century England" (2005);
"Sexuality, Suffrage, and the State: Mary Austin's Theory of Citizenship" (2004);
"Waco: Ten Years After: 2003 Fleming Lectures in Religion" (2003);
"Are All Revolutions Bourgeois? Revolutionary Temporality in Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (2003);
"The Orientalism of Mapping Bodies and Borders: Post Colonial (In)Security and Feminist Contentions on the India-Pakistan Border" (2003);
"Speech and Narrative: Expositional and Philosophical Practice in Thucydides" (2002);
"He's a Laker; She's a Looker: The Consequences of Gender-Stereotypical Portrayals of Male and Female Athletes by the Print Media" (2002);

"Targeting Housing Aid to the Homeless: Evidence from the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients" (2001);

"Political Subjectivity: a useful category for comparative analysis" (2003);  and
"Is This the Educational System You Wanted?: Feminism and Homeschooling" (2003).

 

Stanford Political Communication Lab

Communication studies heavily contributed to by Shanto Iyengar.

 

Stuart School of Business

Topics vary.  Some titles include
"Ethical Dilemma of Science and Technology" (2001);
"Characteristics & Tables of the Doubly-Truncated Normal Distribution";
"Value at Risk in Emerging Markets" (2001);
"Exploring a human centered perspective on collaboration and knowledge management systems" (2001);
"Organizing for E-Business" (2001);
"Following and Accelerating The Design Evolution Curve in Health Care";  and
"Organizational Change Phenomena, Managerial Cognition, and Archival Measures: Reconceptualization and New Empirical Evidence" (1999).

 

Tufts University

Representative titles include

“Government Regulation and Nonprofit Advocacy” (2003);
"Post-Maastricht Blues: The Welfare State and the Transformation of Public Opinion on European Integration, 1973-2002";
"White Attitudes Toward Race Neutral and Race Conscious Policies" (2003);
"From Analog to Digital: The Challenge of Teaching About Criminal Sentencing" (1997);
Book Manuscripts:

"Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy" (2003);  and
"World-Making in the Tropics: Nicaragua and Costa Rica From the Conquest to the Present" (2003).

 

University of Arizona, Department of Economics

 

University of California, Dept. of Statistics

Departmental theses and dissertations placed online.

 

University of Chicago Law School

Working papers that focus on Law and Economics.

 

University of Chicago, Political Theory Workshop

University of Chicago. This is a forum for the "presentation of new research in all varieties of political theory and political philosophy, including work in the history of political thought; contributions to normative political theory; theoretical engagements with problems in contemporary politics and public policy; and theoretical reflection on fundamental political concepts or phenomena."

 

University of Exeter, Dept. of Politics

The existing papers are focused mostly on the European Union.

 

University of Kansas School of Law

 

University of Leeds, Politics and International Studies

Titles include

"Being at Home in the World: Antitheory and IR; What Ought to be Done?";
"Southern Thai Politics: A Preliminary Overview";
"New Governance and Post-Parliamentarism";
"Technical Cosmopolitanism: Systems, Critical Theory and International Relations";
"Management of Politics: Europeanization National Identities";
"Democratization in Ghana: assessing the impact of political aid (1997-2003)";
"The European Union and Democracy Promotion in Africa: The Case of Ghana";
"The British Road to War";
"Norms and International Relations: The anachronistic nature of neo-realist approaches";
"The French left in 2002: the end of the Mitterrand strategy";
"Programmed for Failure: The United States, the second North Korean Nuclear Crisis and the Six Party Talks";
"Rating 20th Century British Prime Ministers";
"Tony Blair's new doctrine of international community and the UK decision to invade Iraq";  and
"Environmental Imperialism: Theories of Governance and Resistance."

 

University of Oxford, Virtual Society Projects

Papers focus on how people behave, organize themselves, and interact as a result of electronic technologies. The main purpose of the research is "to shape policy and practice through a better understanding of electronic technologies and information infrastructures in their development and use."

 

University of Siena, Centre for the Study of Political Change

Representative titles include

R. Dahl, "The past and future of democracy";
M. Cotta, "On the relationship between party and government";
J. Blondel, "Formation, life and responsibility of the European executive";
J.M. Magone, "Exporting governance: the relations of EU with other regions of the world";
N. Conti, L. Verzichelli, "The european dimension of political discourse in Italy. A longitudinal analysis of party preferences";
A.A. Svetlozar, "The Role of Institutions in the Consolidation of Democracy in Post-communist Eastern Europe";
F. Tronconi, L. Verzichelli, "Parliamentary Elites of New European Party Families: Unsuccessful Challenges or Chaotic Signs of Change?";  and
P. Everts, P. Isernia, "Reaction to the 9/11 2001 terrorist attack in countries outside the US."

 

University of Sydney (Economics)

Departmental papers range from 1998 to present.  Representative titles include

"Gender Differences in Schooling Attainment: The Role of Sibling Characteristics and Birth Order Effects" (2004);
"Child care and female employment decisions: A theoretical note" (2004);
"Insider Trading, Informational Efficiency and Allocative Efficiency" (2003);
"Real Interest Rate Equalization: Some Evidence from East Asian Economies" (2003);
"An Aggregate Import Demand Function for India: A Cointegration" (2001);  and
"Investment in Child Schooling: Theory and Evidence Using Data from South Africa" (1999).

 

University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy

 

University of Toronto, EnviReform

Faculty members' papers that deal specifically with environmental reform.

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University of Cologne: International Politics and Foreign Policy

The chair conducts theoretical and empirical research in the fields of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis. Studies are published in the AIPA working paper series.

 

Department of Social Sciences at Roskilde University, Denmark

Comparative Public Administration works.

Newcastle Law School, UK 

The central focus of this site is Public Law.

 

University of Bath Library, UK

UKOLN provides papers on policy, research, and cultural heritage. UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

 

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