Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authoritydelegation game. Individuals often retain authority even when its delegation is in their material interest—suggesting that authority has nonpecu...

There are several problems associated with the current ways that certificates are published and revoked. This paper discusses these problems, and then proposes a solution based on the use of WebDAV, an enhancement to the HTTP protocol. The proposed solution provides instant certificate revocation, minimizes the processing costs of the certificate issuer and relying party, and eases the administ...

The National Crime Authority is an investigative agency established by Commonwealth and underpinning state legislation. The Authority is constituted by a Chairman and Members of the Authority. A Member of the Authority is responsible for the operation of one or more of the Authority's offices. The Authority has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth and in 1992 will open an office in ...

We analyze the effect of collective action by green/environmentally aware consumers on ambient environmental quality and market equilibrium. We consider a model with two types of consumers who differ in their willingness-to-pay for a good available in two different environmental qualities, and two competing firms: one selling the good of high environmental quality and the other of low environme...

An assurance case based regime requires a strong review element. Typically, one party is responsible for preparing the assurance case. Another party (the certification authority) is responsible for accepting the assurance case. Assurance cases are, by their nature, often subjective. The objective of assurance case development, therefore, is to obtain mutual acceptance of this subjective positio...

Explaining why the provision of public goods varies across jurisdictions is often complicated by the self-selection of jurisdictions into the population with provision authority. To address this problem we develop and estimate a multi-stage selection model in tandem with a public goods provision model. Our empirical application is to the State of California where counties are assigned primary r...

when a person joins in an organization, he becomes authorize to take some decisions on behalf of that organization; means he is given some authority to exercise. After some time, on the basis of his performance in the organization, he is given promotion and he becomes eligible to exercise to some higher authorities. And further, he may get some higher promotion or he may leave the organization....

I will discuss three questions in my paper: 1. What are the essential elements of fundamentalism? 2. What is the role of authority as a source of fundamentalism? 3. What is the role of trust in the spreading of fundamentalism? For each question I will outline a possible answer from a special theoretical point of view. What is " fundamentalism " ? There is an ongoing discussion about this questi...

The authority of educators in general, and the authority of the moral educator in particular, are central and pervasive themes in John Wilson’s writings. This paper summarises his account of authority in educational relationships, not simply by describing the results of his analysis, but by reconstructing his views in terms of some basic distinctions between different types of authority, in par...