SSRN Brown University, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs Research Paper Series

1.

Does Lean Improve Labor Standards? Management and Social Performance in the Nike Supply Chain

Management Science, Forthcoming, Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-09, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2337601

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Greg Distelhorst, Jens Hainmueller and Richard M. Locke

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Stanford University - Department of Political Science and Brown University

Downloads 1,093

2.

The Political Foundations of State Effectiveness

State Building in the Developing World, Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli and Deborah Yashar, eds., Forthcoming, Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2015-24

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Feb 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Peter Evans, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill

Downloads 856

3.

The Continuing Cost of the Iraq War: The Spread of Jihadi Groups Throughout the Region

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-19

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Jessica Stern

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 390

4.

The International Politics of Drugs and Illicit Trade in the Americas

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-05

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Peter Andreas and Angelica Duran-Martinez

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and University of Massachusetts Lowell - Department of Political Science

Downloads 386

5.

Socializing the European Semester? Economic Governance and Social Policy Coordination in Europe 2020

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-17

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Oct 2014

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Jonathan Zeitlin and Bart Vanhercke

University of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam

Downloads 295

6.

Women's Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Social Cohesion in Latin America

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-08

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Jane S. Jaquette

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 194

7.

Teams of Rivals: China, the U.S., and the Race to Develop Technologies for a Sustainable Energy Future

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2015-26

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 May 2015

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Edward Steinfeld

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 191

8.

The Politics of History: India and China, 1949-1962

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-18

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Oct 2014

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Nirupama Rao

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 153

9.

Articulations of Fracking Fields: State Diplomacy, Corporate Energy and Environmental Movements Across the European Union and USA

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-15

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Oct 2014

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Michael Kennedy

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 143

10.

Renewable Futures and Industrial Legacies: Wind and Solar Sectors in China, Germany, and the U.S.

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2015-27

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2015

Working Paper Series

Jonas Nahm

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Downloads 127

11.

Democracy in Post-Invasion Iraq

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-23

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Melani Cammett

Professor

Downloads 123

12.

Parallel Paths to Enforcement: Private Compliance, Public Regulation, and Labor Standards in the Brazilian Sugar Sector

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-01

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Aug 2013

Working Paper Series

Richard M. Locke and Salo V. Coslovsky

Brown University and New York University (NYU)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 119

13.

Towards a Theory of Sustained Cooperation

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2015-25

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Apr 2015

Working Paper Series

Atul Pokharel

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 114

14.

Producing Knowledge in the Global South: The Political Economy of Social Science in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-06

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Richard Snyder, Angelica Duran-Martinez, Maria Angelica Bautista and Jazmin Sierra

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Lowell - Department of Political Science, Brown University - Department of Political Science and Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 108

15.

Cabal City: Regime Theory and Indian Urbanization

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-32

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Jul 2016

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Patrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay and Michael Walton

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Center for Policy Research (India) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 103

16.

Exploiting the Implementation Gap: Policy Divergence and Industrial Upgrading in China's Wind and Solar Sectors

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2015-28

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Sep 2015

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Jonas Nahm

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Downloads 103

17.

Does Compliance Pay? Firm-Level Trade and Social Institutions

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2017-37, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2017-1, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5192-17

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2017

Working Paper Series

Greg Distelhorst and Richard M. Locke

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Brown University

Downloads 100

18.

Local Government Reform as State Building: What the Polish Case Says About 'Decentralization'

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-14

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Oct 2014

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Anthony Levitas

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 100

19.

US Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan: The Dollars and Sense

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-22

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Nov 2014

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Catherine Lutz and Sujaya Desai

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 100

20.

Production Goes Global, Compliance Stays Local: Private Regulation in the Global Electronics Industry

Regulation & Governance. 9(3): 224-242., MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2012-1, Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-13

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Greg Distelhorst, Richard M. Locke, Timea Pal and Hiram M. Samel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Brown University, European University Institute and Said Business School, University of Oxford

Downloads 93

21.

Illicit Americas: Historical Dynamics of Smuggling in U.S. Relations with Its Neighbors

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-03

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Peter Andreas

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 78

22.

What War Has Wrought in Afghan Women's Lives

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-21

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Nov 2014

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Jennifer Heath

Independent

Downloads 75

23.

Who Sets the Intellectual Agenda? Foreign Funding and Social Science in Peru

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-07

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Richard Snyder, Kelly Bay and Cecilia Perla

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Political Science, Brown University and Brown University - Department of Political Science

Downloads 75

24.

Dialogue of the Deaf: Scholars, Practitioners, and the Drug War in U.S. Foreign Relations

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-02

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013

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Peter Andreas

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 72

25.

The Illicit Trade & Conflict Connection: Insights from U.S. History

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2013-04

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2013

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Peter Andreas

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 72

26.

The African Union and Development in Africa

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-30

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Patricia Agupusi

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 57

27.

Homegrown Development Initiatives in Africa: Illusion or Reality?

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-29

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Patricia Agupusi

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 51

28.

Social Externalities, Overlap and the Poverty Trap

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-12

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014

Working Paper Series

Young-Chul Kim and Glenn C. Loury

Sangmyung University and Brown University - Department of Economics

Downloads 48

29.

Collective Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-10

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

Glenn C. Loury and Young-Chul Kim

Brown University - Department of Economics and Sangmyung University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 46

30.

Democratic Aspirations and Destabilizing Outcomes in Afghanistan

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-20

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Norah Niland

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP)

Downloads 46

31.

Empire Is in the Details

American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 593-611, 2006

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Catherine Lutz

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 45

32.

When Courts Plan: The Greening of Delhi's Autorickshaws

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-35

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Aug 2016

Working Paper Series

Atul Pokharel

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 43

33.

Maintaining the Digital Commons: A Comparison of Debian Linux and Irrigation Canals in Nepal

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-33

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Jul 2016

Working Paper Series

Atul Pokharel

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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34.

Public Goods and the Salience of Local Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Teacher Absenteeism in Africa

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-31

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 13 May 2016

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Eoin F. McGuirk

Yale University

Downloads 33

35.

Widening Gap in College Admission and Improving Equal Opportunity in South Korea

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-11

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

Young-Chul Kim, Young-Joon Kim and Glenn C. Loury

Sangmyung University, Sangmyung University and Brown University - Department of Economics

Downloads 32

36.

Flexible Governance and Perceived Fairness: Evidence from Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-34

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jul 2016

Working Paper Series

Atul Pokharel

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 31

37.

Albanian Local Government Finance on the Eve of Territorial Consolidation

Watson Institute for International Studies Research Paper No. 2014-16

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Oct 2014

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Anthony Levitas

Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Downloads 26

38.

Does Citizenship Abate Class? Evidence and Reflections from Bangalore, India

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-36

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Nov 2016

Working Paper Series

Ebony Bertorelli, Patrick Heller, Siddharth Swaminathan and Ashutosh Varshney

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Azim Premji University and Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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