Anthropologist Turned Politician

Hero or Cunning Politician ?

Ú ̆ ‰ ‡ Ï , È Â ‡ · was an active, if not the most active, character throughout „ Â „ ’s reign. However, the character of È Â ‡ · and his brothers is foggy and puzzling. Although many of us have been taught to classify figures in Tanach into the roles of either ¢ ˆ „ È ̃ ¢ or ¢ ̄ ̆ Ú ¢ to further our understanding of the manifest context © Ù ̆ Ë ® and latent meaning © „ ̄ ̆ ® of the text, È Â ‡ · and ...

Politician - Proof Policy ? ∗

In this paper I discuss the nature of the political constraints that the World Bank faces in delivering basic services to the poor. The main problem arises because the Bank has to work through domestic governments which have political aims different from helping the poor. The conceptual approach attractive to economists and central to the WDR2004 is the notion of politician prooÞng. Given that ...

Rudolf Virchow; Doctor, Statesman, Anthropologist

This report, including an abundance of tables, describes in detail various experiments designed to throw light on problems encountered in the Japanese program of producing BCG vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Studies were made of production of dried vaccine, of methods of preservation, of virulence, and of potency in guinea pigs. Discussion follows the description of each experime...

The Responsibility of the Anthropologist.

Politician Effort and Voter Inference∗

This paper explores a psychologically motivated model of belief formation in a political context. Using a retrospective voting framework, we specifically examine the implications of a common inference bias in which voters overweight the effect of an incumbent’s unobserved effort on realized outcomes. This bias is motivated by and consistent with the fundamental attribution error in social psych...