Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies
Political StudiesDespite calls for strategic unity against authoritarian incumbents, opposition parties often struggle to coordinate on a shared strategy. Why? This article builds on existing scholarship by introducing two additional drivers of opposition fragmentation.
Draege, JB, Jiménez, M
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Resisting Asymmetries of Power: Intersectionality as a Resource for Practices of Care
Journal of Pastoral Theology, 2017Intersectionality is a metatheory that is singularly focused on naming and resisting the exercise of hegemonic power.
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Information Asymmetry and the Performance of Agents Competing for Limited Resources
2017While mainstream economic theory has been primarily concerned with the behavior of agents having complete information and perfect rationality, it is unlikely that either of these assumptions are valid in reality. This has led to the development of theories that incorporate bounded rationality and also to the study of the role of information in economic
Appilineni Kushal +2 more
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The resource theory of asymmetry and some of its applications
2012A useful and unifying concept in quantum information theory is the idea of a consumable "resource". The basic idea behind quantum resource theories is that whenever we face restrictions on the set of operations we can perform, some states (resource states) enable us to perform particular tasks that otherwise would have been impossible.
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Asymmetry in action: Sequential resources in the negotiation of a prescription request
Text – Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 2001This article deals with one form of interactional asymmetry in doctor‐ patient consultations, that of initiative: Doctors primarily initiate actions and solicit responses, whereas patients primarily respond to doctors’ initiatives. This article argues that the variable of initiative actually contains two dimensions: speaker initiative and utterance ...
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Natural resources and conflict: The crucial role of power mismatch and geographic asymmetries
Natural resource rents are often equated with political turmoil and fighting. While one can easily find examples where there has been such a link (see e.g. the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Chad, Nigeria or Iraq), one can as easily pick examples of both democracies (e.g. Norway) or nondemocracies (e.g.Morelli, Massimo, Rohner, Dominic
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Allocator-recipient asymmetries in resource allocation preferences: A focus on bequests.
Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyIn many financial situations, an allocator divides resources between recipients with different levels of need. We examine how allocators and recipients prefer resources to be allocated between recipients (i.e., the allocators do not benefit from the allocation) in interpersonal contexts.
Chang-Yuan Lee, Tanjim Hossain
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Balancing asymmetries in resource holding power and resource value in the pumpkinseed sunfish
Animal Behaviour, 1991Lee Alan Dugatkin, Laurence Biederman
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Inside the black box: How does resource asymmetry contribute to IJV acquisition intention?
Industrial Marketing Management, 2020Xiaodan Dong, Shaoming Zou
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