This article seeks to explain the dynamics of resource depletion in North Korea’s fishery. We utilize insights from common-pool (CPR) literature and show how theories comparative politics that why states sometimes do not formalize property rights but prefer their informal exercise can be fruitfully applied Utilizing a process tracing methodology, we demonstrate Korean state possesses necessary ...

Voting and assignment are two of the most fundamental settings in social choice theory. For both settings, random serial dictatorship (RSD) is a well-known rule that satisfies anonymity, ex post efficiency, and strategyproofness. Recently, it was shown that computing the resulting probabilities is #P-complete both in the voting and assignment setting. In this paper, we present efficient paramet...