What explains varying levels of emigrant transnational engagement in homecountry politics? The well-known difficulties in obtaining migrant profile data and restriction to a few destination countries have resulted in a lack of systematic empirical investigation of this question. We expand nascent efforts to fill this gap by offering a new theoretical framework and novel research design that stress the potential importance of destination characteristics.

Why is the difference in redistribution preferences between the rich and the poor high in some countries and low in others? In this article, we argue that it has a lot to do with the rich and very little to do with the poor. We contend that while there is a general relative income effect on redistribution preferences, the preferences of the rich are highly dependent on the macrolevel of inequality. The reason for this effect is not related to immediate tax and transfer considerations but to a negative externality of inequality: crime.

Working Paper No.3 (September 2015)

Estonia’s new “e-Residency” initiative is an ambitious project that for the first time enables people from anywhere in the world to become digital residents of another nation. Like other pioneering developments in the Estonian “e-state,” the e-Residency project challenges traditional notions of residency, citizenship, territoriality, and globalisation.