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...research, including my own, shows that they also stabilize economic partnerships. In particular, trade agreements include rules and regulations designed to limit governments’ policy discretion. One example is providing formal rules for interstate dispute settlement. Dispute settlement ties governments' hands, deterring them from introducing ad hoc policy changes. In...

...Research conducted by the Hansard Society in 2002 following the low turnout in the 2001 General Election suggested that people who do not vote have made that decision long before the election. The election campaign, if they noticed it at all, made no difference to their decision to abstain. We might argue about whether the present voting system (first past the post) is...