Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures - 2018/19
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium/Tocqueville Lectures - 2018/19
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From David Price January 18th, 2019
This book (Polity Press 2018), from one of the world’s leading experts, is a clearly written and accessible introduction to Tocqueville’s social and… -
From David Price January 28th, 2019
Independent judges are thought to promote democratic regime survival by allowing perceived violations of rules limiting arbitrary power to be challenged non-violently… -
From David Price February 4th, 2019
In response to high-profile cases of police misconduct, reformers are calling for greater use of civilian allegations in identifying potential problem officers. This… -
From David Price February 11th, 2019
Since the rise of clinical rehabilitation in the 1960s, states have adopted numerous sentencing technologies to “improve” the distribution of punishment.… -
From David Price February 18th, 2019
Platform-based technology firms are fundamentally different than businesses of the past. By harvesting user data, platforms can accrue monopoly power. As a result,… -
From David Price February 25th, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly developed in recent years. Today, AI tools are used increasingly by both private- and public-sector organizations around the… -
From David Price March 18th, 2019
This book project—under contract with Oxford University Press—has three aims. The first is to convince the reader that law and technology represents a… -
From David Price March 25th, 2019
We use the 2005—2012 data for Russian regions to show that higher regional institutional quality strongly benefits institutionally dependent manufacturing sectors… -
From Group Social Science Research Commons March 29th, 2019
The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry—and a term of derision—in… -
From David Price April 8th, 2019
This paper combines the property rights approach of Barzel with notions from renewable resources and evolutionary economics to examine the domestication of wild… -
From David Price April 8th, 2019
Leadership presents a puzzle for traditional economic theories of organizations. The theory of the firm recognizes advantages to centralizing authority through the… -
From David Price April 15th, 2019
Public and academic knowledge of cyber conflict relies heavily on data from commercial threat reporting, but this data provides a distorted view of cyber threat… -
From David Price April 22nd, 2019
There are plenty of unstoppable forces pushing water to be the new oil as it becomes scarcer due to climate change, population growth, and lifestyle changes. Today, in… -
From David Price September 17th, 2018
Freedom is one of the most enduring conceptual frameworks for thinking about the oceans and their use. Popularized by Grotius in the 17th century, the doctrine of… -
From David Price September 24th, 2018
How does prison social order vary across time and place? This paper examines prison systems in Latin America, where officials typically provide few resources and… -
From David Price September 28th, 2018
Dr. Hart’s presentation will address three things that have come out of ten years of working on the Bastiat Translation Project for Liberty Fund. The first… -
From David Price October 1st, 2018
Authoritative attribution of cyberattacks to nation-state actors requires more than purely technical solutions. New institutions are needed to develop the credibility… -
From David Price October 8th, 2018
The big dollars of Big Data result in widespread data collection that fuel new technological innovations but have rendered traditional notions of privacy largely… -
From David Price October 15th, 2018
What type of probability theory best describes the way humans make judgments under uncertainty and decisions under conflict? Although rational models of cognition and… -
From David Price October 22nd, 2018
This project explores how variation in the micro-dynamics of state legitimacy—which we define as rightful rule—affects public perceptions around… -
From David Price October 29th, 2018
A more comprehensive evaluation of impacts resulting from rural programming and initiatives is necessary to better inform the efficacy of rural development efforts and… -
From David Price November 5th, 2018
In the spirit of Hayek (1945), this paper explores in survey data how knowledge on rule-of-law institutions is distributed among experienced and inexperienced… -
From David Price November 12th, 2018
Immigration is frequently identified as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine fundamental values, most notably freedom and… -
From David Price November 12th, 2018
Workflow management systems are subject to failures, including: processor, network congestion, and machine reboot. Various fault tolerance techniques have been proposed… -
From David Price November 26th, 2018
How do international organizations (IOs) help states cooperate? This book will introduce a distinct information problem that hinders efforts to solve shared problems,… -
From David Price November 30th, 2018
The post-war period has seen a development of many forms of international cooperation. To understand this “Cambrian explosion” of new institutions,…