Jonathon W Moses
Biographic Data
| ID | 262240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathon W Moses |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathon W |
| FAMILY NAME | Moses |
| SIGNATURE | MOSES J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8842-7919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents
This article introduces the concept of a Natural Dividend and describes the three types of rent that combine to produce it: a differential rent, a regulatory rent, and a locational rent. Each of these rents is associated with a classical economist (Ricardo, Marx and George, respectively), and each is shown to be a product of nature, society and/or the political authorities that manage nature on our behalf. Because the Natural Dividend is a windfa…
Big data meets open political science: An empirical assessment of transparency standards 2008–2019
Over the last decade, the field of political science has been exposed to two concomitant developments: a surge of Big Data (BD) and a growing demand for transparency. To date, however, we do not know the extent to which these two developments are compatible with one another. The purpose of this article is to assess, empirically, the extent to which BD political science (broadly defined) adheres to established norms of transparency in the discipli…
Whose benefit? A comparative perspective for the ISA
The state of political science, 2020
This article maps the state of political science since the turn of the millennium. It begins by reviewing the influential description of the discipline in Robert Goodin’s (2011 [2009]) introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Political Science . It then introduces an alternative approach, based on citation indexes, to generate a comparative list of influential authors for the same time period. After comparing Goodin’s list with our own, we use the …
Introduction: Migration in Europe
Sparrows of Despair: Migration as a Signalling Device for Dysfunctional States in Europe
This article considers the utility of emigration figures for signalling political dysfunction in Europe. If given a choice, most people would prefer not to leave friends, family and homes in order to find work. By assuming that international migration is more of a burden than a freedom, international migration patterns can help us distinguish between politically successful and politically dysfunctional states. This approach is first applied to in…
Collected Essays
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EPS symposium diversity and inclusion in political science
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Ways of Knowing
Introduction: Small States and the Global Economic Crisis
This short piece introduces four articles from a roundtable discussion on Small States and the Global Economic Crisis at the 2011 General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) in Reykjavik Iceland. The discussants were each asked to consider the role of size and EU membership in determining the effect and response of small states to the current economic crisis. The lessons learned from the exchange are conditional: it…
Emig 1.2: A Global Time Series of Annual Emigration Flows
EMIG 1.2 is a new, open‐source emigration database, based on over 6,500 observations covering 155 countries between 1850 and 2008, which can be used in both aggregate and TSCS analyses. Using comparisons, I show that EMIG 1.2 complements and extends alternative databases. Still, I need to solicit help from area specialists to broaden and deepen its coverage. In its aggregate form, I observe two important trends: (1) the level of emigration today …
Emigration and Political Development
While policy makers, international organizations and academics are increasingly aware of the economic effects of emigration, the potential political effects remain understudied. This book maps the nature of the relationship that links emigration and political development. Jonathon W. Moses explores the nature of political development, arguing that emigration influences political development. In particular, he introduces a new cross-national datab…
Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough? Social Models and Market Integration in the US and Europe: Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough
By comparing US and European efforts at market integration, this article questions the commonly held notion that Europe's market integration can continue without undermining its nation-based models of social protection. Three recent ECJ decisions (Viking, Laval and Rüffert) seem to confirm Scharpf's (2002) assertion that the EU suffers from constitutional asymmetry. By contrasting these developments with the earlier integration of US markets – wh…
Forty Years of European Political Science
The evolution and development of political science in Europe can best be seen through three dimensions: first , the way in which the subject area has been defined; second, how it has been institutionalized; and third, the way its professional community has taken shape
The Politics of Immigration: Introduction to a Special Issue on US Immigration
In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life. After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to rise again from the ashes of the infamous Sensenbrenner Bill.1 A fresh political and economic context ensures this
The American Century? Migration and the Voluntary Social Contract
This piece argues that free migration was a central if implicit part of the liberal social contract and that America's founders were both aware of this and exploited it to legitimate their new state. The piece begins by describing this uniquely American contribution to liberal political thought. It then juxtaposes this contribution against the nature of our own international order, to show just how foreign the American Century has become. The pie…
Norwegian Political Science at 60
On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science; Norway's first department of political science was established at the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally, nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public …
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
Ways of Knowing
International Migration: Globalization’s Last Frontier
Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling population, and has over the past fifty years actively encouraged huge immigration from other countries. There is near consensus across the political spectrum that the free movement of goods and fr…
The Umma of Democracy
This article challenges the democratic-peace literature to extend its scope by considering some of the underlying characteristics that might otherwise explain the absence of war between states. In particular, the article proposes that residents of democratic states share a common sense of community, and that people who share a sense of community do not wage war with one another. This proposal is illustrated by comparing two very unlikely cases: t…
If People were Money
‘If people were money ... ’: this is the provocative title to Robert Goodin’s opening salvo in an edited collection entitled Free Movement. In raising this hypothetical question, Goodin’s intent (and that of the edited volume that followed) was to provoke a moral debate about the way in which the developed world has been inconsistent in prioritizing international financial capital mobility while limiting international labour mobility.
Mapping Political Methodology: Reflections on a european perspective
This article surveys two concomitant developments in European political methodology. First, we point to a recent methodological convergence across Europe and the Atlantic. Second, we note a broadening methodological divide between explanatory and interpretive approaches to political phenomena. This survey provides a backdrop for introducing a new ECPR Standing Group in Political Methodology as an outlet for new methodological techniques and a ven…
Exit, vote and sovereignty: Migration, states and globalization
In this article I introduce a framework for understanding the political effects of globalization on labor. While the globalization literature is rife with references to the effects of sovereignty from global trade and capital networks, there is surprisingly little written about the effects of increased labor mobility on national sovereignty. To fill this void, I adapt Albert Hirschman’s (1970) model to examine how exit might affect national voice…
The Economic Costs to International Labor Restrictions: Revisiting the Empirical Discussion
Abdication from National Policy Autonomy: What's Left to Leave
Democracy and Peace: A More Skeptical View
1. The New Orthodoxy In February 1995 a small border war erupted between Peru and Ecuador. Time notes that although 'the armed clash between two democracies deep in the Amazonian jungle' may appear bizarre to outside observers, the conflict is fairly straightforward for Peruvians and Ecuadorians alike: the area has been contested for 53 years, as it is rumored to contain rich mineral deposits (1995, p. 27). What should not be surprising is that b…
Exit, vote and sovereignty: Migration, states and globalization
In this article I introduce a framework for understanding the political effects of globalization on labor. While the globalization literature is rife with references to the effects of sovereignty from global trade and capital networks, there is surprisingly little written about the effects of increased labor mobility on national sovereignty. To fill this void, I adapt Albert Hirschman’s (1970) model to examine how exit might affect national voice…
Inside Out: Globalization and the Reorganization of Foreign Affairs Ministries
This paper aims to provoke a discussion about the ineffectiveness and redundancies associated with current institutional arrangements for conducting foreign affairs. Our argument is made in three steps. First, we examine current institutional frameworks for foreign policy. Second, we explain how changing global conditions undermine the basic assumptions that support those institutional frameworks. Finally, we offer a radical alternative for restr…
Mapping Political Methodology: Reflections on a european perspective
This article surveys two concomitant developments in European political methodology. First, we point to a recent methodological convergence across Europe and the Atlantic. Second, we note a broadening methodological divide between explanatory and interpretive approaches to political phenomena. This survey provides a backdrop for introducing a new ECPR Standing Group in Political Methodology as an outlet for new methodological techniques and a ven…
The Economic Costs to International Labor Restrictions: Revisiting the Empirical Discussion
The social democratic predicament in the emerging European Union: A capital dilemma 1
This article models the social democratic predicament in two stages. First, the corporatist bargaining arrangement familiar to Nordic social democracies is sketched in simple game terms. With highly centralized collective bargaining arrangements, successful policy outcomes can be understood as solutions to something akin to a prisoners' dilemma problem. The government plays a guarantor's role in this capital‐closed economy game, using traditional…
Sparrows of Despair: Migration as a Signalling Device for Dysfunctional States in Europe
This article considers the utility of emigration figures for signalling political dysfunction in Europe. If given a choice, most people would prefer not to leave friends, family and homes in order to find work. By assuming that international migration is more of a burden than a freedom, international migration patterns can help us distinguish between politically successful and politically dysfunctional states. This approach is first applied to in…
Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough? Social Models and Market Integration in the US and Europe: Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough
By comparing US and European efforts at market integration, this article questions the commonly held notion that Europe's market integration can continue without undermining its nation-based models of social protection. Three recent ECJ decisions (Viking, Laval and Rüffert) seem to confirm Scharpf's (2002) assertion that the EU suffers from constitutional asymmetry. By contrasting these developments with the earlier integration of US markets – wh…
The state of political science, 2020
This article maps the state of political science since the turn of the millennium. It begins by reviewing the influential description of the discipline in Robert Goodin’s (2011 [2009]) introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Political Science . It then introduces an alternative approach, based on citation indexes, to generate a comparative list of influential authors for the same time period. After comparing Goodin’s list with our own, we use the …
The American Century? Migration and the Voluntary Social Contract
This piece argues that free migration was a central if implicit part of the liberal social contract and that America's founders were both aware of this and exploited it to legitimate their new state. The piece begins by describing this uniquely American contribution to liberal political thought. It then juxtaposes this contribution against the nature of our own international order, to show just how foreign the American Century has become. The pie…
Forty Years of European Political Science
The evolution and development of political science in Europe can best be seen through three dimensions: first , the way in which the subject area has been defined; second, how it has been institutionalized; and third, the way its professional community has taken shape
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents
This article introduces the concept of a Natural Dividend and describes the three types of rent that combine to produce it: a differential rent, a regulatory rent, and a locational rent. Each of these rents is associated with a classical economist (Ricardo, Marx and George, respectively), and each is shown to be a product of nature, society and/or the political authorities that manage nature on our behalf. Because the Natural Dividend is a windfa…
Introduction: Small States and the Global Economic Crisis
This short piece introduces four articles from a roundtable discussion on Small States and the Global Economic Crisis at the 2011 General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) in Reykjavik Iceland. The discussants were each asked to consider the role of size and EU membership in determining the effect and response of small states to the current economic crisis. The lessons learned from the exchange are conditional: it…
The Politics of Immigration: Introduction to a Special Issue on US Immigration
In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life. After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to rise again from the ashes of the infamous Sensenbrenner Bill.1 A fresh political and economic context ensures this
Norwegian Political Science at 60
On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science; Norway's first department of political science was established at the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally, nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public …
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Boris Yeltsin
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Boris Yeltsin
Abdication from National Policy Autonomy: What's Left to Leave
The social democratic predicament in the emerging European Union: A capital dilemma 1
This article models the social democratic predicament in two stages. First, the corporatist bargaining arrangement familiar to Nordic social democracies is sketched in simple game terms. With highly centralized collective bargaining arrangements, successful policy outcomes can be understood as solutions to something akin to a prisoners' dilemma problem. The government plays a guarantor's role in this capital‐closed economy game, using traditional…
Democracy and Peace: A More Skeptical View
1. The New Orthodoxy In February 1995 a small border war erupted between Peru and Ecuador. Time notes that although 'the armed clash between two democracies deep in the Amazonian jungle' may appear bizarre to outside observers, the conflict is fairly straightforward for Peruvians and Ecuadorians alike: the area has been contested for 53 years, as it is rumored to contain rich mineral deposits (1995, p. 27). What should not be surprising is that b…
Trojan horses: Putnam, ECU linkage and the EU ambitions of Nordic elites
This article argues that the decision by Nordic elites to link their respective currencies to an ECU basket is consistent with a Trojan horse strategy for membership in the European Union. After alternative explanations for ECU linkage are tested, the article shows how Nordic elites used their control over exchange rate regime choices to facilitate greater EU participation, in spite of the hesitancy voiced by domestic constituents. In order to ma…
Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation
Globalization, Europeanization and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy?
This book attempts to explore the impact of globalization and Europeanization on the development of Scandinavian social democracy. It is divided into three main sections: economic policy, welfare stat
Inside Out: Globalization and the Reorganization of Foreign Affairs Ministries
This paper aims to provoke a discussion about the ineffectiveness and redundancies associated with current institutional arrangements for conducting foreign affairs. Our argument is made in three steps. First, we examine current institutional frameworks for foreign policy. Second, we explain how changing global conditions undermine the basic assumptions that support those institutional frameworks. Finally, we offer a radical alternative for restr…
The Economic Costs to International Labor Restrictions: Revisiting the Empirical Discussion
If People were Money
‘If people were money ... ’: this is the provocative title to Robert Goodin’s opening salvo in an edited collection entitled Free Movement. In raising this hypothetical question, Goodin’s intent (and that of the edited volume that followed) was to provoke a moral debate about the way in which the developed world has been inconsistent in prioritizing international financial capital mobility while limiting international labour mobility.
Mapping Political Methodology: Reflections on a european perspective
This article surveys two concomitant developments in European political methodology. First, we point to a recent methodological convergence across Europe and the Atlantic. Second, we note a broadening methodological divide between explanatory and interpretive approaches to political phenomena. This survey provides a backdrop for introducing a new ECPR Standing Group in Political Methodology as an outlet for new methodological techniques and a ven…
Exit, vote and sovereignty: Migration, states and globalization
In this article I introduce a framework for understanding the political effects of globalization on labor. While the globalization literature is rife with references to the effects of sovereignty from global trade and capital networks, there is surprisingly little written about the effects of increased labor mobility on national sovereignty. To fill this void, I adapt Albert Hirschman’s (1970) model to examine how exit might affect national voice…
International Migration: Globalization’s Last Frontier
Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling population, and has over the past fifty years actively encouraged huge immigration from other countries. There is near consensus across the political spectrum that the free movement of goods and fr…
The Umma of Democracy
This article challenges the democratic-peace literature to extend its scope by considering some of the underlying characteristics that might otherwise explain the absence of war between states. In particular, the article proposes that residents of democratic states share a common sense of community, and that people who share a sense of community do not wage war with one another. This proposal is illustrated by comparing two very unlikely cases: t…
Ways of Knowing
Norwegian Political Science at 60
On the February 28, 1947, by way of royal decree, the University of Oslo (UiO) was allowed to grant a degree in political science; Norway's first department of political science was established at the same university in 1957. Today, 60 years later, political science departments can be found on each of Norway's largest university campuses; their graduates are active and evident locally, nationally, and internationally—with jobs in both the public …
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
The Politics of Immigration: Introduction to a Special Issue on US Immigration
In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life. After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to rise again from the ashes of the infamous Sensenbrenner Bill.1 A fresh political and economic context ensures this
The American Century? Migration and the Voluntary Social Contract
This piece argues that free migration was a central if implicit part of the liberal social contract and that America's founders were both aware of this and exploited it to legitimate their new state. The piece begins by describing this uniquely American contribution to liberal political thought. It then juxtaposes this contribution against the nature of our own international order, to show just how foreign the American Century has become. The pie…
Forty Years of European Political Science
The evolution and development of political science in Europe can best be seen through three dimensions: first , the way in which the subject area has been defined; second, how it has been institutionalized; and third, the way its professional community has taken shape
Emigration and Political Development
While policy makers, international organizations and academics are increasingly aware of the economic effects of emigration, the potential political effects remain understudied. This book maps the nature of the relationship that links emigration and political development. Jonathon W. Moses explores the nature of political development, arguing that emigration influences political development. In particular, he introduces a new cross-national datab…
Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough? Social Models and Market Integration in the US and Europe: Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough
By comparing US and European efforts at market integration, this article questions the commonly held notion that Europe's market integration can continue without undermining its nation-based models of social protection. Three recent ECJ decisions (Viking, Laval and Rüffert) seem to confirm Scharpf's (2002) assertion that the EU suffers from constitutional asymmetry. By contrasting these developments with the earlier integration of US markets – wh…
Ways of Knowing
Introduction: Small States and the Global Economic Crisis
This short piece introduces four articles from a roundtable discussion on Small States and the Global Economic Crisis at the 2011 General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) in Reykjavik Iceland. The discussants were each asked to consider the role of size and EU membership in determining the effect and response of small states to the current economic crisis. The lessons learned from the exchange are conditional: it…
Emig 1.2: A Global Time Series of Annual Emigration Flows
EMIG 1.2 is a new, open‐source emigration database, based on over 6,500 observations covering 155 countries between 1850 and 2008, which can be used in both aggregate and TSCS analyses. Using comparisons, I show that EMIG 1.2 complements and extends alternative databases. Still, I need to solicit help from area specialists to broaden and deepen its coverage. In its aggregate form, I observe two important trends: (1) the level of emigration today …
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