In 1674, the Amsterdam publisher Jan Claesz ten Hoorn printed a new schoolbook, Nieuwe Spiegel der Jeugd, of Franse Tiranny (New Mirror Youth, or French Tyranny). The work, based on chronicle recent ‘Disaster Year’ (1672), during which Dutch Republic was invaded and nearly overrun by French-led coalition, provided concise but highly graphic violent history these turbulent events for youth. beca...

The standard epistemic justification for inclusiveness in political decision making is the Condorcet Jury Theorem, which states that the probability of a correct decision using majority rule increases in group size (given certain assumptions). Informally, majority rule acts as a mechanism to pool the information contained in the judgements of individual agents. I aim to extend the explanation o...

I introduce a model of corporate voting. I characterize the shareholder majority rule as the unique corporate voting rule that satisfies four axioms: anonymity, neutrality, share monotonicity, and merger, a property that requires consistency in election outcomes following stock-for-stock mergers. JEL classification: D71, D72, K22

Alexis de Tocqueville’s notion of political and civic association is a recurrent theme in his work Democracy in America. There he argues that associations are a necessary correlational feature of democratization that should be promoted “at the same speed as the spread of the equality of social conditions” (600). This is because they correct the natural defects of democracy in that they (i) prot...

A median of a k-tuple =(x1; : : : ; xk) of elements of a 0nite metric space (X; d) is an element x for which ∑k i=1 d(x; xi) is minimum. The function m with domain the set of all k-tuples with k ¿ 0 and de0ned by m( ) = {x: x is a median of } is called the median function on X . Continuing with the program of characterizing m on various metric spaces, this paper presents a characterization of t...