Contents

No. 1 — January 2013
Policy Diffusion of Emission Standards: Is There a Race to the Top?	Eri Saikawa	1
Regional Organizations and International Politics: Japanese Influence over the Asian Development Bank and the UN Security Council	Daniel Yew Mao Lim and James Raymond Vreeland	34
Path Shifting of the Welfare State: Electoral Competition and the Expansion of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe	Kimberly J. Morgan	73
The Geographic Context of Political Attitudes among Migrant-Origin Individuals in Europe	Rahsaan Maxwell	116
Research Note
Economic Development and Gender Equality: Is There a Gender Kuznets Curve?	Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash	156
No. 2 — April 2013
King Makers: Local Leaders and Ethnic Politics in Africa	Dominika Koter	187
Capital and Opposition in Africa: Coalition Building in Multiethnic Societies	Leonardo R. Arriola	233
When the Claim Hits: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning	Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen and Emma Aisbett	273
The Left and Organized Labor in Low-Inflation Times	Marco Simoni	314
Review Article
Separatist Conflict in the Former Soviet Union and Beyond: How Different Was Communism?	Benjamin Smith	350
No. 3 — July 2013
Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra Leone Civil War	Dara Kay Cohen	383
Business and Welfare State Development: Why Did Employers Accept Social Reforms?	Thomas Paster	416
Globalizing Electoral Politics: Political Competence and Distributional Bargaining in the European Union	Christina J. Schneider	452
When Can Liberal States Avoid Unwanted Immigration? Self-Limited Sovereignty and Guest Worker Recruitment in Switzerland and Germany	Antje Ellermann	491
Union Density and Political Strikes	Johannes Lindvall	539
No. 4 — October 2013
US versus Them: Mass Attitudes toward Offshore Outsourcing	Edward D. Mansfield and Diana C. Mutz	571
Permissive Constitutions, Democracy, and Religious Freedom in India, Indonesia, Israel, and Turkey	Hanna Lerner	609
Domestic Revolutionary Leaders and International Conflict	Jeff D. Colgan	656
Banks and the False Dichotomy in the Comparative Political Economy of Finance	Iain Hardie, David Howarth, Sylvia Maxfield, and Amy Verdun	691
Review Article
Democratic Careening	Dan Slater	729