Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "coercion"

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    • Organizing Violence 

      Bates, Robert; Greif, Avner; Singh, Smita (SAGE Publications, 2002)
      In stateless societies, coercion is privately provided; violence is employed to engage in, and to defend against, predation. At best, violence results in mere redistribution; being destructive, it more often results in a ...

    • Race, Coercion, and Liberation in American Political Development 

      Mazumder, Soumyajit (2020-09-14)
      Why do coercive institutions rise and fall? While this question receives vast attention in the comparative politics literature, Americanists have been slower to take up this question. This is surprising since the United ...

    • A Theory of Indiscriminate Violence 

      Zhukov, Yuri Maximovich (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation addresses a simple puzzle: why do governments use indiscriminate violence against civilians? To deter a population from rebelling, a government should make rebellion costlier than the alternatives. Yet ...

    • Two Arguments Against Lying 

      Korsgaard, Christine (Springer Verlag, 1988)