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This paper explores how selective engagement strategies by governments as a response to nationalist pressures affect prospects for successful negotiations in the near future and the movement?s long-term internal balance of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the issue of political economic change in the European Union through an analysis of the first five years of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Party-based competition is often cast the antithesis of particularistic politics (Rose-Ackerman 1999, Sartori 2005, Schaffer 2007), a perspective that coincides with the historical observation that nineteenth century British politicians turned away from bribery and began to compete on policies as the British electorate grew larger and more party-oriented (Cox 1987). I use data on bribe prices and campaign expenditures at 338 electoral contests in Victorian Britain and Ireland to show that the extension of the franchise had only a limited impact on local campaign spending whilst the increasingly partisan orientation of the Victorian electorate actually boosted electioneering expenditures and electoral corruption. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article applies constitutional economics to regional integration in the area of legal integration and tests its predictions against data on citation rates in Irish, British, and German courts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]