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In this issue:

Pick your poison: economic crises, international monetary fund loans and leader survival
Laron K. Williams

Globalization and human well-being
Nisha Mukherjee and Jonathan Krieckhaus

Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid
Pamela Paxton and Stephen Knack

Democratic authority, public Islam, and Shi'i jurisprudence in Iran and Iraq: Hussain Ali Montazeri and Ali Sistani
Babak Rahimi

Trust in Uzbekistan
Eric Gleave, Blaine Robbins and Beth Kolko

Public confidence in government: empirical implications from a developing democracy
Aylin Aydin and Cerem I. Cenker