Gendering Elites: Economic and Political Leadership in 27 Industrialized Societies

Socio - economic Differential Mortality • Industrialized Societies

Consumption in Affluent Societies of Industrialized Nations

Leadership in Small Societies

Multi-agent simulation was used to study several styles of leadership in small societies. Populations of 50 and100 agents inhabited a bounded landscape containing a fixed number of food sources. Agents moved about the landscape in search of food, mated, produced offspring, and died either of hunger or at a predetermined maximum age. Leadership models focused on the collection and redistribution...

Political Parties and Economic Policy in Industrialized Democracies: An Insider-Outsider Partisanship Model

This paper presents an argument that rejects the conception of labor as a unitary political actor and the identification of social democratic governments as those that will promote the interests of labor. I divide labor into insiders, who enjoy employment protection, and outsiders, who do not, and reconceptualize electorally influential groups and their main policy interests accordingly. I firs...

South African Economic Woes: Poor Political Leadership and Rating Downgrades Hampers Growth and Development

Purpose:  The paper aims to focus on South Africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. It attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the National Dev...