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The limits of AI for authoritarian control
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract An emerging literature suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can greatly enhance autocrats' repressive capabilities. This paper argues that while AI presents a powerful new tool for authoritarian control, its effectiveness is constrained by the very repressive institutions it is designed to serve.
Eddie Yang
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Around 1948: The “Gentle Revolution” and Art History
Artium Quaestiones, 2019 Just like after World War I Italy experienced a transition from modernism to fascism, after World II Poland experienced a passage from modernism to quasi-communism. The symbol of the first stage of the communist revolution in Poland right after the war,
Anna Markowska
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Antitrust and corporate taxation
Business and PoliticsAlthough citizens value competitive markets and support small businesses, we observe substantial variation in market concentration. Why do politicians abstain from taking action to reduce concentration? We propose an often overlooked political benefit to
Jonghoon Lee, Amy Pond
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis article examines the remarkable prophetic witness of Archbishop David Mukuva Gitari, who played a pivotal role in Kenya’s struggle for democratic governance during the 1980s and 1990s.
Stephen A. Kapinde
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Education for Civil Disobedience in the Context of Democratic Decline
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I discuss the educational relevance of civil disobedience as a form of political dissent in contemporary democracies demonstrating signs of significant democratic decline. The article challenges the plausibility of the impactful Rawlsian understanding of civil disobedience in societies in a state of democratic backsliding.
Anniina Leiviskä
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Liberalismo: o direito e o avesso
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2003 Liberalism, as manifested in self-defined liberal writings, has two sides: one, its true side, comprised of a whole body of systematically integrated proposals; the other, a patchwork quilt, an illusionist version, manipulated for political and ...
Martins Carlos Estevam
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How Does Democracy fare with Economic Welfare for a Trading Nation? [PDF]
The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with different measures of inequality in a cross section framework.
Mamoon, Dawood
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Determinants of Managerial Intensity in the Early Years of Organizations [PDF]
, 1998 This paper examines how founding conditions shape subsequent organizational evolution— specifically, the proliferation of management and administrative jobs.
Baron, James N +2 more
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