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Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem [PDF]
The mechanism used in Nash implementation is a form of direct democracy, taking everyone''s opinion into account. We augment this mechanism with a political process that selects the opinions of a subset of the individuals. We study three such processes --
Saran Rene, Tumennasan Norovsambuu
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Review of \u3cem\u3eEast meets East: Chinese discover the modern world in Japan, 1854-1898\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2015 The argument in this book is simple but non-trivial: China encountered the modern world in Japan, especially after the fall of the last samurai regime and the creation of a modern oligarchy.
Wert, Michael
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“A Whale of a Chance”: Thomas E. Dewey, the U.S. South, and the Election of 1948
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the Republican Party's campaign in the South in 1948. It argues that many national and state Republicans believed that there was a real opportunity for the party's presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, to win Border South states.
Lewis Johnson
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Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies [PDF]
This paper develops a model to analyze economic performance under different political regimes. An oligarchic society, where political power is in the hands of major producers, protects their property rights, but also tends to erect significant entry ...
Daron Acemoglu
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Articulating Sovereignties: Struggles for Subaltern Hegemony in Ecuador and Bolivia
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism ...
Diego Andreucci +3 more
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Medievalista, 2014 In this paper, we intend to follow the social and political trajectory of the merchant Fernão Gonçalves Façanha who conducted his professional activity in Évora, one of the most important cities of medieval Portugal, in the second half of the 14th ...
Joaquim Bastos Serra
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Controlling a complex metropolis, 1650-1750: politics, parishes and powers [PDF]
, 2001 The period from 1650 to 1750 was not characterised by major institutional innovation in the government of London, let alone revolutionary structural change.
Harding, Vanessa
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 1069-1088, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel, productive approach to political ethics in the European Parliament (EP), assuming some of its members (MEPs) are elected undemocratically in member states severely affected by democratic backsliding. It explores the normative foundations of how other MEPs should deal with undemocratically elected MEPs here and now ...
Attila Mráz
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The Conspiracist Theory of Power
Politics and GovernanceIn recent years, conspiracy theories have surged in democratic politics, enabling illiberal parties, movements, and politicians to win the votes of constituents who are disillusioned with mainstream democratic politics.
Mert Can Bayar, Scott Radnitz
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy [PDF]
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors and the political con.icts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs.
Fali Huang
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