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In this dissertation I present a tractable two-level bargaining game involving three actors: a leader; a domestic actor that is able to constrain the leader; and an unconstrained foreign state. The actors attempt to divide a good or to settle a policy conflict, I study how varia…

I argue that party competition in legislative elections is partly a function of presidential elections. Previous research on spatial competition has assumed that parties are competing in parliamentary regimes, where the only election of concern for parties and voters is the legi…

History paints a picture of tax avoidance that has always plagued the tax man’s efforts in collecting taxes. The general anti-avoidance provisions (hereinafter referred to as the GAAR) has been refined since its inception in 1941 to its current form in 2006, in an effort to stay…