Sinclair (1999)
Congressional leadership
and principal-agent theory
Changes in party leadership
between 104
th
and 105
th
Congresses
Stasavage (2003)
Bureaucratic delegation,
transparency, and
accountability
Variation in central banking
institutions
Tedin (1994)
Self-interest versus
symbolic politics
Court-ordered financial
equalization among public
schools
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This non-exhaustive list includes recent working papers or studies published in political science journals
that either lay explicit claim to having exploited a “natural experiment” or that in my view adopt core
elements of the approach. These studies were either previously known to me or turned up in searches of
JSTOR and other sources. Suggestions of other studies to include in the list are very welcome.