Optimal Dissent in Organizations

The Dissent over Dissent Over Descent

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Workaholics and Drop Outs in Optimal Organizations

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to test the theory of the optimal composition of prizes in contests. We find that while in the aggregate the behavior of our subjects is consistent with that predicted by the theory, such aggregate results mask an unexpected compositional effect on the individual level. While theory predicts that subject efforts are continuous and increasin...

To Dissent or not to Dissent? Informative Dissent and Parliamentary Governance

Legislative dissent occurs frequently in most parliamentary systems despite its potential detrimental effects on both party and legislator, i.e., legislators depend on their party label for re-election, whose value in turn depends in part on the party’s ability to appear cohesive. Commonly dissent has been attributed to ‘extreme’ preferences. I provide an informational rationale for dissent. Di...

Why conservation needs dissent.

M. NILS PETERSON,∗ MARKUS J. PETERSON,† AND TARLA RAI PETERSON‡ ∗Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2258, U.S.A. ‡Department of Communication, Program in Peace & Confl...

Forms of Dissent