Justice Restored under Xi Jinping: A Political Project

Justice Under Uncertainty

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute resources equally, they exhibit remarkable...

Towards a new political project for cities

Open letter to Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China: China's fight against corruption in organ transplantation.

The international media have recently focused attention on the resolve of China’s new leadership to combat the rampant corruption within its society. The January 13, 2014, article in the China Daily, ‘‘For a clean and fair society,’’ reported your guidelines for political and legal reform. The judicial system is now charged to ‘‘carry the sword of justice and scale of equality’’ for all of Chin...

Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow int...

Trade Agreements under Political Pressures

We study in this paper the welfare effects of different types of trade agreements and the equilibrium outcome of trade negotiation, when the objective of each government is politically motivated. We explore a three-country and three-good trade model with endogenous tariffs and export subsidies in a political economy framework. In this context, we suggest that the welfare effects of both bilater...