Thomas Plümper

Professor of Government, University of Essex

Director, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis

 

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Working Papers

Statistical Software Components

Projects

Placements

ECPR SG Political Economy

Courses

Replication Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
my working papers can be downloaded at
Social Science Research Network working paper archive

 

manuscripts since 2005

 

2010

The Politics of Death: Health Care Institutions and Mortality Rates in 20 OECD Countries (with Eric Neumayer)
Unpopular but Effective: Out-of-Pocket Health Care Transfers Lower Mortality Rates (with Eric Neumayer)
Tax Competition and Income Redistribution (with Vera E. Troeger)
Case Selection and Causal Inference in Qualitative Research (with Vera E. Troeger and Eric Neumayer)
Model Specification

Endogeneity

2009

The Politics of Strategic Budgeteering II (with Christina Schneider and Vera E. Troeger)
Policy Reforms in Autocratic Regimes (with Kjell Hausken)
Putting off till tomorrow: The Politics of Disaster Risk Reduction (with Phil Keefer and Eric Neumayer)
Truth is in the Limit, sometimes. Matching, Regression, and Causality (with Vera E. Troeger)
Corruption and International Competition for Foreign Direct Investment (with C.J. Willem Schudel)
Making Spatial Analysis Work. Ado-files for Generating Spatial Effect Variables in Monadic and Dyadic Data (with Eric Neumayer)
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention (with Phil Keefer and Eric Neumayer)

2008

Exchange Rate Regime Choice with Multiple Key Currencies (with Eric Neumayer)
Does Terrorism spread along Civilization Lines? A Dynamic Perspective on Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' (with Eric Neumayer)
Tax Competition and the Welfare State (with Vera Troeger)
Model Specification in the Analysis of Spatial Dependence (with Eric Neumayer)
Estimation of Spatial Effects in Directed Dyadic Data (with Eric Neumayer)
Neuere Entwicklungen der Paneldatenanalyse (with Vera E. Troeger)

2007

Terrorism and the Clash of Civilization. Was Huntington right after all? (with Eric Neumayer)
The Friend of my Enemy is my Enemy. International Alliance and International Terrorism (with Eric Neumayer)
The Computation of Convergence, or: How to Chase a Black Cat in a Dark Room (with Christina Schneider)
Comparative Political Economy
Foreign Terror on Americans (with Eric Neumayer)
Policy Reform and Political Change in Autocratic Regimes (with Kjell Hausken)
Ohne Substanz. Eine Antwort an Gross und Jungbauer-Gans (with Frank Schimmelfennig)
Amerika, du hast es besser? Zum (Zu-) Stand der Politischen Ökonomie
Politics in Hard Times. A Note on the Reliability of Polity IV's Polity2 Score. (with Eric Neumayer)
Why is there no Race to the Bottom in Capital Taxation? (with Vera Troeger and Hannes Winner

2006

Famine Mortality, Rational Political Inactivity and International Food Aid (with Eric Neumayer)
Efficient Estimation of Time Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Panel Data Analysis with Unit Effects (with Vera E. Troeger)
The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy (with Eric Neumayer)
Too Much to Die, to Little to Live: Unemployment, Higher Education Policies and University Budgets in Germany, 1975-2000 (with Christina Schneider)
Berufungsdeterminanten in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft, 1990-2004, (with Frank Schimmelfennig)
Academic Heavyweights
Genderaspekte des akademischen Arbeitsmarktes (with Frank Schimmelfennig)
Discriminatory Membership and the Redistribution of Enlargement Gains: A Rational Theory of EU Enlargement (with Christina Schneider)
Widening versus Deepening of International Unions? (with Kjell Hausken und Walter Mattli)

2005

Fear of Floating and External Effects of Currency Unions (with Vera Troeger)
Spatial Multiparty Competition with Abstention and Biased Voters (with Christian W. Martin)
The Unequal Burden of War: On the Effect of Conflicts on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy (with Eric Neumayer)
Regulatory Conditionality and Membership Selection in the EU. Evidence from a Heckman Selection Model (with Christina J. Schneider und Vera E. Troeger)
The Euro and Monetary Policy Autonomy in European Non-Euro Countries, (with Vera E. Troeger)