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Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
American Political Science Review, 1993 Under anarchy, uncoordinated competitive theft by “roving bandits” destroys the incentive to invest and produce, leaving little for either the population or the bandits. Both can be better off if a bandit sets himself up as a dictator—a “stationary bandit” who monopolizes and rationalizes theft in the form of taxes.
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Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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DESCENTRAMIENTO Y COLECTIVIDAD EN LA OBRA DE DIEGO MAQUIEIRA
Revista Chilena de Literatura, 2009 En este artículo se estudian los sujetos y sus formas de agrupación en dos volúmenes de poesía de Diego Maquieira: La tirana y Los sea harrier. En La tirana, los sujetos se encuentran fuertemente descentrados y relaciones de afiliación son definidas por ...
Matías Ayala
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Confluenze, 2013 The article interprets the poetical and ethical parable in Elvira Hernández’s language, putting a part of her work as a Chilean lyric poet into the historical context of the military dictatorship (1973-1990).
Francisca Rojas Bahamondes
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Secure Implementation in Shapley-Scarf Housing Markets [PDF]
This paper considers the object allocation problem introduced by Shapley and Scarf (1974). We study secure implementation (Saijo, Sjostrom, and Yamato, 2007), that is, double implementation in dominant strategy and Nash equilibria.
Takuma Wakayama, Yuji Fujinaka
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State and Criminal Law of the East Central European Dictatorships [PDF]
, 2023 Ewa Kozerska, Tomasz Scheffler
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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Objective This study identifies and describes global caesarean section (CS) training practices, comparing high‐income countries (HIC) and low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC). Methods A convergent parallel mixed‐methods study was conducted with a cross‐sectional survey.
Liesl de Waard +4 more
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Segregation in Housing and Urban Forms: An Issue of Private and Public Concern
Social Sciences, 2018 The Mapping Public Housing investigation project (MdH), based at the University of Porto, Faculty of Architecture, Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, is building a database of State-subsidized residential architecture in Portugal designed ...
Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos +2 more
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The Dictator’s Dilemma: to Punish or to Assist? Plan Failures and Interventions under Stalin [PDF]
A dictator issues an order, but the order is not carried out. The dictator does not know whether the order failed because the agent behaved opportunistically, or because his order contained some mistake. Imperfect information creates his dilemma: whether
Andrei Markevich
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The Present and Future of Judgement Aggregation Theory. A Law and Economics Perspective [PDF]
, 1994 This chapter briefly reviews the present state of judgment aggregation theory and tentatively suggests a future direction for that theory. In the review, we start by emphasizing the difference between the doctrinal paradox and the discursive dilemma, two
Mongin, Philippe
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