Papers and Books

All of these papers employ PLAID data or (prior to 2004) the imediate precursor database that covered four multilateral development banks and was collected by Nielson and Tierney.

Nielson, Tierney, and Weaver. 2006. "Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Re-engineering the Culture of the World Bank." Journal of International Relations and Development (forthcoming).

Nielson and Tierney.  2005. "Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux." International Organization: 59 (3).

Hicks, Parks, and Tierney, AAEA annual conference 2005

O'Keefe, Islamic Development Bank, ISA 2005

Fitzgerald and Sloan. 2005. "Where the Donors Got it Right: The Effectiveness of Water and Sanitation Aid to Developing Countires." Independent research paper.

Parks and Tierney. 2004. "Cooperation of Collusion: Explaining Bilateral and Multilateral Environmental Aid to Developing Countries." Paper presented at APSA, Chicago Illinios, September 2004.

Nielson and Tierney. 2004.  "Principals and Interests: Agency Theory and Multilateral Development Bank Lending." Paper presented at APSA, Chicago Illinois, September 2004.

Roberts, Parks and Vasquez. 2004.  "Who Ratifies Environmental Treaties and Why? Institutionalism, Structuralism, and Participation by 192 Nations in 22 Treaties." Global Environmental Politics: 4 (3).

Nielson and Tierney.  2003.  "Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform."International Organization: 57 (2).