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192: "Informelle Politik" und "informelle Institutionen": Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, analytische Zugänge und Herausforderungen für das Studium autoritärer und anderer politischer Herrschaftssysteme („Informal Politics" and "Informal Institutions": Conceptual Foundations, Analytical Foci and Challenges for the Study of Authoritarian and Other Political Regimes)

Patrick Köllner

191: Contested Meanings of Corruption: International and Local Narratives in the Case of Paraguay

Malte Gephart

190: India's Turn in Climate Policy: Assessing the Interplay of Domestic and International Policy Change

Joachim Betz

189: Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research

Claudia Simons and Franzisca Zanker

188: Is There a "Chinese School" of IR?

Nele Noesselt

187: Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP's Quest for Legitimacy

Maria Bondes and Sandra Heep

186: Domestic Security in the Maghreb: Deficits and Counter-Measures

Hanspeter Mattes

185: Credit-constrained in Risky Activities? The Determinants of the Capital Stocks of Micro and Small Firms in Western Africa

Michael Grimm, Simon Lange and Jann Lay

184: Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

183: Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects

Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner

182: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation: The Impact of Regime Evolution

Bert Hoffmann

181: State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America

Sabine Kurtenbach

180: Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa

Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel

179: The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?

Hugo Dobson

178: Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis

Johannes Vüllers

177: Burma's Transition to "Disciplined Democracy": Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule?

Marco Bünte

176: Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador

Anna Barrera

175: Revisiting the Resource–Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries

Matthias Basedau, Annegret Mähler and Miriam Shabafrouz

174: Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa

Babette Never

173: Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Maria Bondes

172: How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: A Comparative Study of Three World Regions

Christian von Soest, Karsten Bechle and Nina Korte

171: Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

Matthias Basedau

170: The End of the "Liberal Theory of History"? Dissecting the U.S. Congress' Discourse on China's Currency Policy

Nicola Nymalm

169: Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires

Matías Dewey

168: Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers and Tim Wegenast

167: It's Not Only Rents: Explaining the Persistence and Change of Neopatrimonialism in Indonesia

Nina Korte

166: Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?

Gero Erdmann, Sebastian Elischer and Alexander Stroh

165: Spillover and Competition Effects: Evidence from the sub-Saharan African Banking Sector

Birte Pohl

164: North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation

David Shim and Dirk Nabers

163: Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Erich Gundlach and Matthias Opfinger

162: Ex oleo bellare? The Impact of Oil on the Outbreak of Militarized Interstate Disputes

Georg Strüver and Tim Wegenast

161: Transition from Democracy. Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

Gero Erdmann

160: Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda

Daniel Flemes and Alcides Costa Vaz

159: Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990 to 2008

Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver and Johannes Vüllers

158: Conflict Prevention through Natural Resource Management? A Comparative Study

Annegret Mähler, Miriam Shabafrouz and Georg Strüver

157: Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? – A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Matthias Basedau and Thomas Richter

156: Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba

Bert Hoffmann

155: Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt

Juliane Brach

154: India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia

Sandra Destradi

153: Neopatrimonialism in Latin America: Prospects and Promises of a Neglected Concept

Karsten Bechle

152: Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation: Challenges and Ways Forward for Pan-Asian Regionalism

Durgesh K. Rai

151: The Media Activism of Latin America's Leftist Governments: Does Ideology Matter?

Philip Kitzberger

150: Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler

149: Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance

Gero Erdmann

148: Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana (Representations of Violence in Central American Literature)

Nadine Haas

147: Too Many Resources or Too Few? What Drives International Conflicts?

Georg Strüver

146: Verschiebung der globalen Machtverhältnisse durch den Aufstieg von Regionalen Führungsmächten: China, Indien, Brasilien und Südafrika (The Rise of Regional Powers and Shifting Global Relations:Comparing China, India, Brazil and South Africa)

Robert Kappel

145: On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa

Robert Kappel

144: Private Security in Guatemala: The Pathway to Its Proliferation

Otto Argueta

143: ¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? Lecciones del caso chileno (Is Economic Growth Sufficient to Support Democracy? Lessons from the Chilean Case)

Pedro Aravena Lavín