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Interdependence in Comparative Politics: Substance, Theory, Empirics, Substance

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Interdependence is ubiquitous and often central across comparative politics. Indeed, as the authors show first,
theoretically, any situation involving externalities from one unit's actions on others' implies interdependence.
Positive or negative externalities induce negative or positive interdependence, which spurs competitive races or
free riding, with corresponding early or late-mover advantages, and thus strategic rush to act or delay and inaction.
The authors show next how to model interdependent processes empirically, how not doing so risks omitted-variable biases favoring domestic and exogenous-external accounts over interdependence, but how doing so naïvely risks simultaneity biases with the opposite substantive implications. They then discuss how to estimate properly specified interdependence models and, finally, how to interpret and present estimated spatio-temporally dynamic effects, response paths, and long-run steady-states, with associated standard errors. They illustrate by replicating a noteworthy earlier, nonspatial study of capital tax competition. Web appendices contain further technical details, literature survey, data, statistical software code, and spreadsheet templates for all suggested procedures.

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Comparative Political Studies

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California : Sage Publications., 2008

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English

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0010-4140

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Vol. 41, No. 4/5, Page 742 - 780

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Globalization
Interdependence
Spatial econometrics
Spatio temporal-lag model
Tax competition
Galtom's problem
Interdependence in Comparative Politics

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