From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in the Cabinet

February 28, 2007

by Torun Dewan and David P Myatt.
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American Political Science Review, 101(1), pp. 63-77, February 2007.
Abstract: Empirical evidence suggests that a prime minister benefits from firing ministers who are involved in political scandals. We explore a model in which scandals are positively related to policy activism, so that a prime minister may wish to protect [...]

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Collective Action: Current Perspectives

February 28, 2007

by David P Myatt.
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An entry in the second edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steve Durlauf and Larry Blume.
Abstract: Mancur Olson’s logic of collective action predicts that public-good provision is most likely to fail when the size of the consumer group is large; his public goods [...]

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