Bruce E Moon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce E Moon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce E |
| FAMILY NAME | Moon |
| SIGNATURE | MOON B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Introducing Global Issues
Introduces students to the challenging contemporary issues of conflict and security, the global economy, development, and the environment
Long Time Coming
Prospects for democracy in Iraq should be assessed in light of the historical precedents of nations with comparable political experiences. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was an unusually extreme autocracy, which lasted an unusually long time. Since the end of the nineteenth century, only thirty nations have experienced an autocracy as extreme as Iraq's for a period exceeding two decades. The subsequent political experience of those nations offers a pessim…
Voting Counts
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strategies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists.In reexamining the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications.First, nations characterized as following outward-or…
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strate gies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists. In reexamin ing the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications. First, nations charac terized as following outwa…
The Political Economy of Basic Human Needs
Political Similarity and American Foreign Trade Patterns
International economic flows have become an increasingly prominent component of both international relations and domestic politics over the last two decades. Even though politically motivated governments have played a growing role in shaping these transactions, empirical studies have largely ignored the political determinants of international trade patterns. This study addresses that important gap in our understanding of the international politic…
Basic Needs and Growth-Welfare Trade-Offs
Can nations achieve both growth and equity or must one value be sacrificed to attain the other? The controversy over trade-offs between aggregate economic performance and social welfare lies at the heart of recent debates on development policy. This study reviews these debates, identifies the specific forms of likely trade-offs, and examines the evidence over a twenty-five-year period for a sample of 104 nations. We employ a cross-national panel …
Domestic Political Conflict and Basic Needs Outcomes
This study undertakes an empirical investigation of the near universal assumption that domestic political conflict is invariably harmful to the societies in which it occurs. In particular, we examine the implications of domestic conflict for the provision of basic human needs once the known effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Using a variation of the panel regression model, we regress an index of basic needs satisfaction on measures…
The Military Burden and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways in which military factors influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregated social wealth and certain political aspects of the state are removed. Three channels of influence are examined: the defense burden on the economy, the scope of military participation in society, and military control of the ruling regime. We analyze these influences by regressing an index of physical well-being, the PQLI, …
Consensus or compliance? Foreign-policy change and external dependence
The foreign-policy behavior of weak states, conventional wisdom holds, is largely determined by a process of bargaining with a dominant state. Compliance with the dominant state's preferences is viewed as necessary to the maintenance of economic exchange relations that benefit the weak state. Evidence for such a theory has been found in cross-sectional correlations of aid and trade with UN voting. However, such empirical studies have ignored alte…
Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways that political processes influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Three general explanatory approaches are examined. These are based on the size or strength of the national government, the achievement ofdemocratic processes, and the ideological orientation ofruling elites along a left-right dimension. These three approaches are analyzed by regressing an index …
The Foreign Policy of the Dependent State
This paper probes the process by which the foreign policy orientation of weak nations comes to reflect the preferences of more powerful nations. Two general conceptions of the nature of this process are identified. The most common view, that of the bargaining model, regards the policymaking process of weak states as relatively autonomous though influenced by reward/punishment actions of a more powerful nation which condition the weaker partner. B…
Exchange rate system, policy distortions, and the maintenance of trade dependence
Two central tenets of dependency theory are supported by the analysis of the causes and consequences of the exchange rate policies of less developed countries (LDCs). First, one critical component—high partner trade concentrations—is recreated by the choice of exchange arrangements. Specifically, nations that have maintained a dollar peg have significantly increased their concentration of trade with the United States since 1973. This occurs becau…
Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways that political processes influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Three general explanatory approaches are examined. These are based on the size or strength of the national government, the achievement ofdemocratic processes, and the ideological orientation ofruling elites along a left-right dimension. These three approaches are analyzed by regressing an index …
Political Similarity and American Foreign Trade Patterns
International economic flows have become an increasingly prominent component of both international relations and domestic politics over the last two decades. Even though politically motivated governments have played a growing role in shaping these transactions, empirical studies have largely ignored the political determinants of international trade patterns. This study addresses that important gap in our understanding of the international politic…
Consensus or compliance? Foreign-policy change and external dependence
The foreign-policy behavior of weak states, conventional wisdom holds, is largely determined by a process of bargaining with a dominant state. Compliance with the dominant state's preferences is viewed as necessary to the maintenance of economic exchange relations that benefit the weak state. Evidence for such a theory has been found in cross-sectional correlations of aid and trade with UN voting. However, such empirical studies have ignored alte…
The Foreign Policy of the Dependent State
This paper probes the process by which the foreign policy orientation of weak nations comes to reflect the preferences of more powerful nations. Two general conceptions of the nature of this process are identified. The most common view, that of the bargaining model, regards the policymaking process of weak states as relatively autonomous though influenced by reward/punishment actions of a more powerful nation which condition the weaker partner. B…
The Military Burden and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways in which military factors influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregated social wealth and certain political aspects of the state are removed. Three channels of influence are examined: the defense burden on the economy, the scope of military participation in society, and military control of the ruling regime. We analyze these influences by regressing an index of physical well-being, the PQLI, …
Basic Needs and Growth-Welfare Trade-Offs
Can nations achieve both growth and equity or must one value be sacrificed to attain the other? The controversy over trade-offs between aggregate economic performance and social welfare lies at the heart of recent debates on development policy. This study reviews these debates, identifies the specific forms of likely trade-offs, and examines the evidence over a twenty-five-year period for a sample of 104 nations. We employ a cross-national panel …
Voting Counts
Long Time Coming
Prospects for democracy in Iraq should be assessed in light of the historical precedents of nations with comparable political experiences. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was an unusually extreme autocracy, which lasted an unusually long time. Since the end of the nineteenth century, only thirty nations have experienced an autocracy as extreme as Iraq's for a period exceeding two decades. The subsequent political experience of those nations offers a pessim…
Domestic Political Conflict and Basic Needs Outcomes
This study undertakes an empirical investigation of the near universal assumption that domestic political conflict is invariably harmful to the societies in which it occurs. In particular, we examine the implications of domestic conflict for the provision of basic human needs once the known effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Using a variation of the panel regression model, we regress an index of basic needs satisfaction on measures…
Exchange rate system, policy distortions, and the maintenance of trade dependence
Two central tenets of dependency theory are supported by the analysis of the causes and consequences of the exchange rate policies of less developed countries (LDCs). First, one critical component—high partner trade concentrations—is recreated by the choice of exchange arrangements. Specifically, nations that have maintained a dollar peg have significantly increased their concentration of trade with the United States since 1973. This occurs becau…
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strate gies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists. In reexamin ing the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications. First, nations charac terized as following outwa…
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strategies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists.In reexamining the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications.First, nations characterized as following outward-or…
Exchange rate system, policy distortions, and the maintenance of trade dependence
Two central tenets of dependency theory are supported by the analysis of the causes and consequences of the exchange rate policies of less developed countries (LDCs). First, one critical component—high partner trade concentrations—is recreated by the choice of exchange arrangements. Specifically, nations that have maintained a dollar peg have significantly increased their concentration of trade with the United States since 1973. This occurs becau…
The Foreign Policy of the Dependent State
This paper probes the process by which the foreign policy orientation of weak nations comes to reflect the preferences of more powerful nations. Two general conceptions of the nature of this process are identified. The most common view, that of the bargaining model, regards the policymaking process of weak states as relatively autonomous though influenced by reward/punishment actions of a more powerful nation which condition the weaker partner. B…
Consensus or compliance? Foreign-policy change and external dependence
The foreign-policy behavior of weak states, conventional wisdom holds, is largely determined by a process of bargaining with a dominant state. Compliance with the dominant state's preferences is viewed as necessary to the maintenance of economic exchange relations that benefit the weak state. Evidence for such a theory has been found in cross-sectional correlations of aid and trade with UN voting. However, such empirical studies have ignored alte…
Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways that political processes influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Three general explanatory approaches are examined. These are based on the size or strength of the national government, the achievement ofdemocratic processes, and the ideological orientation ofruling elites along a left-right dimension. These three approaches are analyzed by regressing an index …
The Military Burden and Basic Human Needs
This study examines ways in which military factors influence the provision of basic human needs once the effects of aggregated social wealth and certain political aspects of the state are removed. Three channels of influence are examined: the defense burden on the economy, the scope of military participation in society, and military control of the ruling regime. We analyze these influences by regressing an index of physical well-being, the PQLI, …
Domestic Political Conflict and Basic Needs Outcomes
This study undertakes an empirical investigation of the near universal assumption that domestic political conflict is invariably harmful to the societies in which it occurs. In particular, we examine the implications of domestic conflict for the provision of basic human needs once the known effects of aggregate national wealth are removed. Using a variation of the panel regression model, we regress an index of basic needs satisfaction on measures…
Basic Needs and Growth-Welfare Trade-Offs
Can nations achieve both growth and equity or must one value be sacrificed to attain the other? The controversy over trade-offs between aggregate economic performance and social welfare lies at the heart of recent debates on development policy. This study reviews these debates, identifies the specific forms of likely trade-offs, and examines the evidence over a twenty-five-year period for a sample of 104 nations. We employ a cross-national panel …
The Political Economy of Basic Human Needs
Political Similarity and American Foreign Trade Patterns
International economic flows have become an increasingly prominent component of both international relations and domestic politics over the last two decades. Even though politically motivated governments have played a growing role in shaping these transactions, empirical studies have largely ignored the political determinants of international trade patterns. This study addresses that important gap in our understanding of the international politic…
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strategies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists.In reexamining the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications.First, nations characterized as following outward-or…
Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth
The World Bank has urged poor nations to adopt development strate gies which emphasize export expansion, dismissing the caution against excessive trade dependence voiced by political economists. In reexamin ing the Bank's much-cited analyses which suggest that "outward-oriented" nations have experienced more rapid growth, this study uncovers three findings which challenge its apparent implications. First, nations charac terized as following outwa…
Voting Counts
Long Time Coming
Prospects for democracy in Iraq should be assessed in light of the historical precedents of nations with comparable political experiences. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was an unusually extreme autocracy, which lasted an unusually long time. Since the end of the nineteenth century, only thirty nations have experienced an autocracy as extreme as Iraq's for a period exceeding two decades. The subsequent political experience of those nations offers a pessim…
Introducing Global Issues
Introduces students to the challenging contemporary issues of conflict and security, the global economy, development, and the environment
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Global trade and economics (4 works) · Positive economics (4 works)