Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization

Public Choice - Pure-strategy Nash equilibria almost never exist in spatial majority voting games when the number of positional dimensions is at least two, as the majority core is typically empty...     

Expert hearings in mini-publics: How does the field of expertise influence deliberation and its outcomes?

Policy Sciences - One of key goals of deliberative mini-publics is to counteract expert domination in policymaking. Mini-publics can be expected to democratize expertise by providing citizens with...     

Trade openness-industrialization nexus revisited in Africa

Economic Change and Restructuring - The objective of this paper is to revisit the nature of the link between trade openness and industrialization in Africa over the period 1990–2019. Given...     

刑法修正案（八）增设危险驾驶罪之问题研究

2011年2月24日全国人大常委会第十九次会议通过的刑法修正案（八）对现行刑法作了许多修改。其中,在刑法第133条后增设了危险驾驶罪,这次修改是本次修正案的重要内容之一,对危险驾驶行为的定罪,改变了＂肇事后再处罚＂的方式,对醉驾等危险驾驶行为的规制正式法律化。本文在讨论增设危险驾驶罪的原因以及本罪构罪标准的基础上,提出了对危险驾驶罪的几点完善意见。     

Bribing votes: A new explanation to the ``inequality-redistribution' puzzle in LDC's

The recent empirical literature on redistribution and developmentemphasizes two main evidences: (i) more redistribution generallyinduces higher growth rates and (ii) more inequality does notnecessarily increase the political demand for redistribution.These stylized facts are at odds with the correlations observedin developed countries. Several theoretical arguments can beadvanced to explain these puzzles. In this paper, it is shownthat ``vote purchases'' may be seen as an additional argument toexplain puzzle (ii). We formalize this idea and examine theconditions under which vote bribes may be an obstacle toredistribution (and thus to growth) in a developing economy.     

Agrarian structure,foreign investment in land,and land prices in Brazil

The recent global rush for farmland in Latin America has produced a dramatic increase in the level of foreign investment in land in Brazil. The current trend accentuates the ongoing process of foreignization of agriculture associated with the production of grains, sugar, ethanol and other commodities, increasing land prices. In response, the Brazilian government reestablished a legal mechanism for ‘controlling’ land-based foreign investment which has proven neither efficient nor effective in solving land concentration. This paper examines this issue by analyzing the causes of the increase in investment as well as the consequences of this process with respect to land prices, critically situating land-based investments and the government's policy response in a broader discussion of the demands of agrarian social movements.     

REJECTING THE ‘G2’

China’s rise should not be accompanied by hegemonyIs China a world power second only to the United States?On September 12,when delivering a speech at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen,former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing gave an humorous answer