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An Integrated Computational Model of Multiparty Electoral Competition
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2002)
Most theoretic models of multiparty electoral competition make the assumption that party leaders are motivated to maximize their vote share or seat share. In plurality-rule systems this is a sensible assumption. However, ...
Self Organization and Coordination
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-08)
In this paper, I analyze the organization of tasks or activities by acollection of agents. I begin by formally defining organized collections androbustly organized collections of agents in the context of a simple model.Within ...
Statutory Battles and Constitutional Wars: Congress and the Supreme Court
(2006)
How does the separation of powers influence Supreme Court justices when they vote on the merits of cases? The standard claim is that if justices do vote strategically, they are most likely to do so when interpreting statutes. ...
Assessing Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court
(Oxford University Press, 2007-05-11)
The foundation upon which accounts of policy-motivated behavior of Supreme Court justices are built consists of assumptions about the policy preferences of the justices. To date, most scholars have assumed that the policy ...
Critical Elections and Political Realignments in the United States: 1860-2000
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2003)
The sequence of US presidential elections from 1964 to 1972 is generally regarded as heralding a fundamental political realignment, during which time civil rights became as important a cleavage as economic rights. In certain ...
Exemplary versus statistical evidence? Response to Berg-Schlosser
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-05)
The theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-05)
This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, emancipative cultural change and democratization constitute a coherent syndrome of social progress – a syndrome whose common focus has not been properly specified ...
Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity
(Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2001-11-22)
A long-standing problem in biological and social sciences is to understand the conditions required for the emergence and maintenance of cooperation in evolving populations. For many situations, kin selection(1) is an ...