When Does Might Make Right? Using Force for Regime Change

When Does Approval Voting Make the “Right Choices”?

We assume that a voter’s approval of a proposal depends on (i) the proposal’s probability of being right (or good or just) and (ii) the voter’s probability of making a correct judgment about its rightness (or wrongness). The state of a proposal (right or wrong), and the correctness of a voter’s judgment about it, are assumed, initially, to be independent. If the average probability that voters ...

When Left Might Not Be Right

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When Two Wrongs Make a Right

Might Makes Right or Right Makes Might

In a path-breaking article, Wade Huntley (1996) reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s pacific union as a systemic phenomenon. Huntley’s argument spawned a new wave of inquiry into the evolutionary expansion of the democratic peace, with several empirical studies finding a positive relationship between global democracy and systemic peace (e.g. Crescenzi and Enterline 1999; Gleditsch and Hegre 1997; Kade...

One Right Does Make a Wrong

Algorithmic debugging is a semi-automatic method for locating bugs in programs. An algorithmic debugger asks a user a series of questions about the intended behaviour of the program. Here we present two new methods that reduces the number of questions a user must answer to locate a bug. First, we describe a heuristic based on comparing computations of the same program with different inputs. Bes...