Results 81 to 90 of about 37,999 (223)

Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core  

Property as power: A theory of representation

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rutger Claassen
wiley   +1 more source

Rich-club and page-club coefficients for directed graphs

open access: yes, 2011
Rich-club and page-club coefficients and their null models are introduced for directed graphs. Null models allow for a quantitative discussion of the rich-club and page-club phenomena. These coefficients are computed for four directed real-world networks:
Barabasi   +6 more
core   +1 more source

A theory of military dictatorships [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. Nondemocratic regimes need the use of force in order to remain in power, but this creates a political moral hazard problem; a ...
Acemoglu, Daron   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Review of Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive by Nicole Doerr (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018
In Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive, Nicole Doerr uncovers the role of translators as a “third voice within deliberation,” neither participants nor facilitators but advocates for specific individuals to be heard and ...
Peter Levine
doaj   +2 more sources

Judgment aggregation without full rationality [PDF]

open access: yes
Several recent results on the aggregation of judgments over logically connected propositions show that, under certain conditions, dictatorships are the only propositionwise aggregation functions generating fully rational (i.e., complete and consistent ...
Dietrich, Franz, List, Christian
core   +4 more sources

Poder, oligarquía y "parcialidades" en Alcalá la Real: el asesinato del Corregidor Bartolomé de Santa Cruz (1492)

open access: yesHistoria. Instituciones. Documentos, 2002
El asesinato del licenciado Bartolomé de Santa Cruz, corregidor de la ciudad de Alcalá la Real (1490-1492), resultó ser un acontecimiento insólito, precisamente cuando los Reyes Católicos imponían de forma inexorable su autoridad en todos los ámbitos ...
José María Ruiz Povedano
doaj  

What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

open access: yes
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 62-71, March 2026.
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic vs. Democratic Societies [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops a model where this is a trade-off between the enforcement of the property rights of different groups. An oligarchic' society, where political power is in the hands of major producers, protects their property rights, but also tends to ...
Daron Acemoglu
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy