Upcoming Leadership Elections

Candidates Prepare for Upcoming Student Government Elections

Two freshmen an Honor Council member and a candidate for Student Government secretary -are among 28 students who will face judicial action as a result of having alcohol confiscated from their rooms during Spring Break. Reports were filed by residence life and housing staff members against 41 students found in possession of alcohol during health and safety inspections. Janna Laing, who was elect...

Preliminary draft Authoritarian elections and leadership succession , 1975 - 2000

Authoritarian elections and leadership succession, 1975-2000 Why do a substantial number of non-democratic regimes hold elections? In this paper, I exposit a model in which authoritarian rulers agree to positive levels of electoral risk primarily to reduce the threat of their violent removal from office via a coup d’etat or revolution, or to lower the cost of managing that risk through secret p...

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Upcoming meetings

The General Age of Leadership: Older-Looking Presidential Candidates Win Elections during War

As nation-state leaders age they increasingly engage in inter-state militarized disputes yet in industrialized societies a steady decrease in testosterone associated with aging is observed--which suggests a decrease in dominance behavior. The current paper points out that from modern societies to Old World monkeys increasing both in age and social status encourages dominant strategies to mainta...