Making Diplomacy Work: Types and Performance of U.S. Ambassadors

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Brief Overview

Using an original dataset on all US ambassadors from 1980 to 2019, we find that ambassadors have different comparative advantages in delivering diplomatic tasks.

Authors

• Frederick R. Chen, The Ohio State University

• Zhenhuan Lei, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Yishuang Li, New York University