Since holding elections in 2010, Myanmar has transitioned from a direct military dictatorship to a formally democratic system and has embarked on a period of rapid economic reform. After two decades of military rule, the pace of change has startled almost everyone and led to a great deal of cautious optimism. To make sense of the transition and assess the case for optimism, this article explore...

Ultrafilters arise frequently in the social choice literature and surrounding fields as collections of the decisive set for a given aggregation procedure. We know from [8] that we can associate each Arrow social welfare function with an ultrafilter. Because of their structure, ultrafilters are useful in analyses of both finite and infinite voting populations. For an infinite set of voters, [5] ...

Wilson's impossibility theorem (Wilson(1972)) about Arrovian social welfare functions (Arrow(1963)) states that there exists a dictator or an inverse−dictator for any non−null social welfare function which satisfies the conditions of unrestricted domain, non−imposition and independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA). Among these conditions IIA is very strong and controversial. We will show th...

In our model, each of n > 2 agents is endowed with an exogenous amount of initial wealth. Each individual may establish at most one link with any agent he prefers each period. A surplus will be generated from each link and the agents involved in that link will bargain over its division. The payoffs obtained by an agent at each period will be added to the existing wealth (ideal payoff) level of ...

Narratives for children about Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile (1973–89) written by the sons and daughters of that era constitute a recognised genre. For most part genre features boy characters who not only have voice choice, but also unrealistically win fight against oppressors. This paper examines two rare works with girl protagonists, paying attention to how their voices are construc...

In this review article, we argue that the transformations related to modernisation of Portuguese society triggered by implementation democracy did not fully accommodate gender equality. particular, when consider areas where most progress has been made in keeping with a broadly shared urge for modernisation, education and science; whereas women have contributed boosting population’s level educat...