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Assistant Professor Professor Andrew Philips arrived at the University of Colorado this semester – making him the newest addition to the Department of Political Science. “I chose this department because everyone was working on interesting projects and there was an emphasis on political economy, which is the substantive topic that...

Abstract: Although recent articles have stressed the importance of testing for unit roots and cointegration in time-series analysis, practitioners have been left without a straightforward procedure to implement this advice. I propose using the autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds cointegration test as an approach to dealingwith some of themost...

Abstract: What affects government policy-making continues to be an important question for researchers interested in political competition and policy priorities. In this contribution, we bring together a theoretical framework that focuses on the influence of globalizing forces on government policy decisions with a methodological emphasis on explaining dynamic budgetary trade-offs...