Michael J. Tierney
Recent Papers
I. Published Papers
"Delegation Success and Policy Failure: Collective Delegation and the Search for Iraqi WMD," Law and Contemporary Problems. 2008.
"Women in International Relations" with Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, and Susan Peterson. Politics and Gender 4(1) 2008.
"Divided Discipline? Comparing Views of U.S. and Canadian IR Scholars." with Michael Lipson, Dan Maliniak, Amy Oakes, and Sue Peterson. International Journal. Spring 2007.
"Inside the Ivory Tower II," with Dan Maliniak, Amy Oakes and Sue Peterson. Foreign Policy. March/April, 2007.
"Schoolhouse Rock: Pedagogy, Politics, and Pop," International Studies Perspectives, February 2007.
"The View from the Ivory Tower: TRIP Survey of IR Faculty in the U.S. and Canada." with Dan Maliniak, Amy Oakes, and Sue Peterson, Reves Center/A&S, February 2007.
“Delegation Under Anarchy: States, International Organizations, and Principal-Agent Theory,” with
"Who Delegates? Alternative Models of Principals in Development Aid." with Mona Lyne and Dan Nielson. Chapter for Delegation and Agency in International Organizations.
“Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide: Re-engineering the Culture of the World Bank,” with Catherine Weaver and Daniel Nielson. Journal of International Relations and Development, 2006.
“Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux,” with Dan Nielson, International Organization, Volume 59, Number 3, Summer 2005.
“Inside the Ivory Tower” with Susan Peterson and Daniel Maliniak. Foreign Policy, 2005.
“Survey of International Relations Faculty at
“Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform,” with Dan Nielson, International Organization, Volume 57, Number 2, Spring 2003.
II. Working Papers and Papers Under Review
“Out-sourcing the Allocation and Delivery of Environmental Aid,” with Rob Hicks and Brad Parks. Paper presented at Workshop on World Bank Research, April 1-2 2005, Budapest, Hungary.
"Controlling Coalitions: Social Lending at Multilateral Development Banks." with Mona Lyne and Daniel Nielson. (Under Review)
“Principles and Principals? The Possibilities for Theoretical Synthesis and Scientific Progress in the Study of International Organizations,”with Catherine Weaver. Chapter for the Politics of International Organization: Theoretical Synthesis in the Study of International Relations. (Under Review at Cornell University Press).
"Perils of Multilateralism? American Influence in Multilateral Interventions." with Dave Auerswald and Steve Saideman. (Under Review)
"Perpetual Terror: Explaining the Terrorist Penchant for Attacking Democratic Regimes." with Jesse Ferguson and Holger Schmidt.
“Do We Practice What We Teach? Trends in IR Scholarship and Undergraduate Teaching,” with Dan Maliniak, James Long, Sue Peterson, and Jennifer Keister. (Paper for 2005 ISA Panel).
"The Discipline of International Relations, 1980-2006," with Dan Maliniak, Amy Oakes, and Sue Peterson. (Paper for 2007 APSA Panel).
"Caveat Emptor! National Oversight and Military Operations in Afghanistan." with Dave Auerswald and Steve Saideman. (APSA 2007).