This article explores the way in which Mexico’s countryside was affected by the country’s economic integration to its northern neighbors since the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico’s political technocracy placed its bet for economic growth on the comparative advantage of cheap labor, a losing bet: Mexico’s asymmetrical integration into the North American economy, ...

This article suggests a framework for moving toward a global history of voting and democracy that focuses less on the diffusion of European ideas (however important those ideas were) than on embedding the history of voting within a worldwide history of ideas on sovereignty. The article posits a general framework for such a history focusing on a ―conundrum of sovereignty‖ grounding legitimate ru...

The article analyzes the socio-political organization of the Pskov Veche republic in the 13th–15th centuries, particularly the changes in personnel and in competences of the Pskov princes, the authority and the officials of the princely administration. The article shows the evolution of the sotnia (a hundred unit) organization from the princely one into the republican one. The research reveals ...

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This dissertation develops a theory of post-national constitutional law, sovereignty, and solidarity that draws on conceptions of identity and time from across Anglo-American legal theory, continental political and social thought, and European jurisprudence. It attends to how post-national law might gather together texts, discourses, practices, and institutions in a shared effort to transform t...

We provide several characterizations of unanimity decision rules, in a public choice model where preferences are constrained by attributes possessed by the alternatives (Nehring and Puppe, 2007a,b). Solidarity conditions require that when some parameters of the economy change, the agents whose parameters are kept fixed either all weakly lose or they all weakly win. Population-monotonicity (Thom...

This essay examines how the United States Military Academy at West Point developed an explicitly “federal” Christianity to help train the antebellum officers of the United States Army. It begins by examining how the Episcopal Church was quietly “established” at West Point, and how the church allied with the federal government and US Army to encourage a potent Christian nationalism that collapse...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press The MIRAB model has been put forward as a way to explain the economies of small island nations with little formal sector economic activity, explaining the development of these economies based on a mix of migration, remittances, aid and bureaucracy. Reinforcing these characteristics has been the generation of rental incomes f...

A method for measuring positional power in hierarchies is proposed. Inspired by models of cooperative TU-games with restricted cooperation, such as permission structures, we model hierarchies by means of a certain kind of set games, which we have called authorization operators. We then define and characterize a value for authorization operators that allows us to quantify the power of each agent...