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Deterrence Misapplied: Challenges in Containing a Nuclear Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Argues against relying on deterrence against a nuclear Iran by analyzing problems with the disproportionate focus on Iran's current leadership in debates over deterrence strategies and considering the implications of various doctrines of ...
Frederick W. Kagan
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Media Ownership, Oligarchies, and Globalization [PDF]

open access: gold, 2011
Guillermo Mastrini, Martín Becerra
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Evaluating Explanations for Stagnation [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we evaluate four explanations for economic stagnation that have been proposed in the literature: coordination failures, ineffective mix of occupational choices, insufficient human capital accumulation, and politico-economic considerations.
Elizabeth Caucutt, Krishna Kumar
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Populist Policies in the Transition to Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops a political economy model that provides an explanation as for why ruling elites in oligarquic societies may rely on income redistribution to the poor (the masses) in order to prevent them from attempting a revolution. We refer to this
Carlos Esteban Posada, Daniel Mejía
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Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Post-Colonial State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article has attempted to explain why the military has remained a powerful political institution/force in Pakistan. Its purpose was to test a hypothesis that posited that the colonial authority structure and the 1947 partition-oriented structural ...
Hussain, E. (Ejaz)
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The changing face of oligarchy in Latin America: Implications for democracy and development

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This exploration analyses the evolving nature of oligarchy in Latin America amid technological change and global wealth concentration. While traditional family-based elites rooted in land, commodities, and protected industries continue to dominate, a new
Benedicte Bull
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A pooling approach to judgment aggregation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The literature has focused on a particular way of aggregating judgments: Given a set of yes or no questions or issues, the individuals’ judgments are then aggregated separately, issue by issue.
García-Bermejo Ochoa, Juan Carlos
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