During a year as Latin American studies university student in Bogota, Colombia, the author grapples with unexpected news of family member's sudden death, while observing landscapes post-Pinochet Chile, post-dictatorship Guatemala, and Shining Path-troubled Peru.

In this article we propose a problematizing overview of daily life under the Salazarist dictatorship (1926–1974), linking corporative, educational and propagandistic contexts. We examine how institutionalized, controlled, negotiated and/or repressed leisure was spread throughout smallest interstices in Portugal. also analyse dichotomous realities policies for people elites (in education reading...

Dutta et al. (Econometrica 69 (2001) 1013) (Dutta, Jackson, and Le Breton—DJLeB) initiate the study of manipulation of voting procedures by a candidate who withdraws from the election. A voting procedure is candidate stable if this is never possible. We extend the DJLeB framework by allowing: (a) the outcome of the procedure to be a set of candidates; (b) some or all of the voters to have weak ...

We consider the problem of determining whether a given function belongs to a certain class of Boolean functions or whether it is far from the class. More precisely, given query access to the function and given a distance parameter , we would like to decide whether or whether it differs from every on more than an -fraction of the domain elements. The classes of functions we consider are singleto...

The probabilistic serial rule is one of the most wellestablished and desirable rules for the random assignment problem. We present the egalitarian simultaneous reservation social decision scheme — an extension of probabilistic serial to the more general setting of randomized social choice. We consider various desirable fairness, efficiency, and strategic properties of social decision schemes an...

No question is more important in Britain today than that of industrial democracy. More and more people ai'e keenly discussing the issue which quite recently was of concern only to the smallest minority. In the next year or so, it is perfectly possible that general elections will be fought in order to decide upon proposals for the democratisation of work. With the British economy stumbling from ...

Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (2009) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy less freedom and are less democratic than countries in which Muslims are a minority. Because the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith ́s finding using the new Democracy-Dictatorship data from Cheibub et a...