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GOV-AARGH-NANCE – “EVEN CRIMINALS NEED LAW AND ORDER”

de Groot, Olaf J.; Rablen, Matthew D.; Shortland, Anja - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2011

We present a theoretical model postulating that the relationship between crime and governance is “hump-shaped”, rather than linearly decreasing, when criminals need access to markets. State collapse, violent conflict and a lack of infrastructure are not conducive for the establishment of any...

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The Cradle of Chaos: Metamorphosis of Chinese Elite, 1850s–1900s

Vul, Nikita A. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

When the Qing Empire collapsed in 1911, military groups moved to the forefront. The power of regional warlords bloomed during 1916–28, splitting China into disparate fiefdoms. The fragmentation of China largely defined the course of events in this country through all 20 century, so explaining...

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On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation

Gershkov, Alex; Goeree, Jacob; Kushnir, Alexey; … - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012

also show that the equivalence between Bayesian and dominant strategy implementation generally breaks down when the main … assumptions underlying the social choice model are relaxed, or when the equivalence concept is strengthened to apply to interim …

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Generic Difference of Expected Vote Share and Probability of Victory Maximization in Simple Plurality Elections with Probabilistic Voters

Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I examine single member, simple plurality elections with n 2 probabilistic voters and show that the maximization of expected vote share and maximization of probability of victory are “generically different” in a specific sense. More specifically, I first describe finite...

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Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation Revisited

Gershkov, Alex; Moldovanu, Benny; Shi, Xianwen - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

obtain a general equivalence result for settings with only two social alternatives. Our negative result does not … mathematically contradict the Manelli and Vincent (2010) equivalence obtained in a one-object auction setting, but it shows that BIC …-DIC equivalence is only valid in restrictive environments. Our insights are based on mathematical results about the existence of …

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