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How has central bank independence (CBI) evolved? Carolina Garriga presents the most comprehensive dataset on CBI, its main dimensions (personnel independence, objectives, policy formulation & limits on lending) & more variables for 192 countries (1970-2023) tinyurl.com/sqaf024

New dataset! Cameron Mailhot introduces Mandates of Int'l Orgs’ Missions (MIOM) dataset, which identifies up to 68 peacebuilding & statebuilding activities in the mandates of all UN & regional orgs’ missions deployed to conflict-affected countries (1989-2020) tinyurl.com/sqaf027

Using original survey data and event dataset from AMISOM in Somalia, Prabin Bahadur Khadka finds that IED attacks—especially those causing peacekeeper deaths—trigger retaliatory violence, supporting a revenge rather than a show-of-force explanation. tinyurl.com/sqaf026

Does FDI induce concentrated benefits on the local level? Leveraging geo-located data on FDI projects 2003-2018 and nightlights, Tobias Rommel, Tabea Palmtag, and Luca Messerschmidt find evidence for FDI-induced local growth and regional inequality. tinyurl.com/sqaf025

Using a dyadic approach, Arash Pourebrahimi, Madeleine O Hosli and Jarek Kantorowicz investigate EU member states’ voting behavior in the Council of the EU along 3 policy dimensions: left-right, authoritarian-libertarian, and pro-/anti EU. tinyurl.com/sqaf029

Cleo O’Brien-Udry &Tyler Pratt argue that tech breakthroughs lead to ⬆️incentives for regulatory arbitrage & potential for controversies to spark public backlash, which link the regulatory fate of states, undermining their ability to regulate in isolation. tinyurl.com/sqaf032

In this article, Simone Dietrich, Daniela Donno,Katharina Fleiner & Alice Iannantuoni underscore the importance of treating gender mainstreaming as a distinct category of assistance whose application is attuned to domestic implementation problems.

In this article, بلال سلايمة - Bilal, Sara Hellmüller & Fanny Badache show that rising powers embrace a view that prioritizes national ownership & occupy a middle ground in the spectrum of sovereignty conceptualizations at the UNSC.tinyurl.com/sqaf031

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Contrary to much research, Jonas Tallberg & Carl Vikberg show that regime type affects how states design international organizations, but only under conditions of general-purpose cooperation. tinyurl.com/692sqaf034

Zhiyuan Wang argues that institutionalized social consensus mitigates the time-inconsistency problem & encourages trade liberalization. The study shows that strong labor laws are positively associated with the growth of PTAs. tinyurl.com/sqaf036

Using original data&micro-level measures of individual hearings by the national security committees, Daniel W. Drezner&Linda Fowler demonstrate how time constraints and routine responsibilities limit the number of opportunities for expert witnesses 1995-2020. tinyurl.com/sqaf035

Can international law protect abortion rights? Yes. When a country’s international commitments are highly legalized, and a strong civil society exists to hold it accountable to those promises, its domestic abortion laws are more permissive. tinyurl.com/sqaf028

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

In this article, Melle Scholten argues that attitudes to return-migrants are a function of non-migrants' evaluation of their expected effect in both economic and political-normative dimensions. tinyurl.com/sqaf041

Using an original coding of legal and nonlegal recommendations, Kyle Reed’s new article finds that human rights arguments framed with legal references are substantially more likely to succeed. tinyurl.com/sqaf042