Books

• Empirical Analysis of Spatial Interdependence (w/ Jude C. Hays & Scott J. Cook), Cambridge UP (forthcoming, under contract).
• An Advanced Introduction to Political Methodology, Elgar Advanced Introductions (forthcoming, under contract).
• Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science & International Relations, L. Curini, R. Franzese, eds., Sage Publications, 2020.
• Advances in Political Methodology, R. Franzese, ed., Elgar Research Collections, 2017.
• Quantitative Research in Political Science: Empirical Methods & Applications (Vols. 1-5), R. Franzese, ed., Sage Major Works, 2015.
• Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analyses (w/ Cindy D. Kam), U. Michigan Press, 2007.
  • Datasets, Stata Code, Excel Spreadsheets for all tables and figures in the book.
• (Co-Editor) Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities: Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining Institutions in EMU, P. Mooslechner, M. Schuerz, R. Franzese, eds., Kluwer Academic Press, 2004.
• Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Outline Overview of the Book
  • Web Appendix: Additional data, figures, results, and discussion that fulfill various promises of same made in the text.
  • Data Appendices: Describes the inequality index (income skew), party left-right codes, governments’ partisan center of gravity, electoral-cycle indicator, central-bank autonomy & conservatism index, coordination of wage/price bargaining index.
  • Methodological Appendices: Very briefly discuss unit roots in time-series-cross-section (TSCS) data, interpreting interactive terms in linear regression, and vector autoregression in TSCS data. Describe and provide a GAUSS procedure for estimating panel-corrected standard-errors in non-rectangular TSCS data with missing values and an E-Views procedure for estimating cross-validated standard errors in TSCS data.
  • Data: (Country Codes in OECD order: 1=US, 2=Japan, 3=(West) Germany, 4=France, 5=Italy, 6=U.K., 7=Canada, 8=Austria, 9=Belgium, 10=Denmark, 11=Finland, 12=Greece, 13=Ireland, 14=Netherlands, 15=Norway, 16=Portugal, 17=Spain, 18=Sweden, 19=Switzerland, 20=Australia, 21=New Zealand)
    • Data Files, Complete Results, Tables and Figures in Lotus 1-2-3 Format
    • Data Files Only in Excel Format
    • Participation, Inequality, and Transfers Data Base (Chapter 2) (ASCII Text Format: *.TXT)
    • The Political Economy of Public Debt Data Base (Chapter 3) (ASCII Text Format: *.TXT)
    • CBI, CWB, and Sectoral-Structure Data Base (Chapter 4) (ASCII Text Format: *.TXT)
  • Nominated for William H. Riker Award for best book on political economy, 2002-2003, APSA Organized Section on Political Economy.
• Wage Bargaining with EMU, Special Issue of Empirica: Journal of Applied Economics and Economic Policy 28(4) (w/ Peter Mooslechner, Martin Schuerz), 2001.

Book Reviews

• “Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change,” Political Science Quarterly 118(1):172-3, 2003.
• “Carles Boix, Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy,” Comparative Political Studies 33(5):689-90, 2000.
• “Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini with Gerald Cohen, Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19(3): 501-9, 2000.