Abstract:The study of international relations by definition deals with interdependencies among countries. One form of interdependence between countries is the diffusion of countrylevel features, such as policies, political regimes, or conflict. In these studies, the outcome variable tends to be categorical, and the primary concern is the clustering of the outcome variable among connected countries. Statistically, such clustering is studied with spatial econometric models. This paper instead proposes the use of a statis… Show more
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