The Institute offers an opportunity to meet other prospective graduate students with similar interests, and to interact and network with faculty and Ph.D. students from Georgetown University and beyon...

After a recent First Circuit decision, private creditors' bankruptcy rights pose an existential threat to the only electric utility in Puerto Rico. As this outcome shows, we need a new approach to…

Abstract. How should we understand the uniquely ambiguous status of the unincorporated territories in the context of US federalism? Focusing on the case of

With a pseudo-panel constructed using the two most recent representative Cameroonian household consumption surveys, we investigate the influence of exposure to decentralization on household income ...

The issue of Quebec independence was, until recently, considered the most important factor motivating Quebeckers’ vote choice in federal elections. However, the conventional wisdom has shifted and ...

Party institutionalisation (PI) is a key concept in research on political parties, indicating organisational and ideological consolidation. In this study, we propose to consider the career patterns...

Abstract. In the United States, rising partisan polarization both affects and is affected by federalism. Yet federalism scholars have not convincingly addr

In a reversal of his first four-year policy, the U.S. president returns to a vision of imperialist control in Latin America and the Caribbean

En un vuelco a su política del primer cuatrienio, el presidente estadounidense retoma una visión de control imperialista en Latinoamérica y el Caribe