291 THE RECENT CONTENTIONS that a government scientist was responsible for the 2001 anthrax letter attacks represent a challenge to this country’s resolve to remain a global leader. Our future is inextricably bound with our ability to maintain a pre-eminent role in science, and so it is imperative that our leadership and citizenry have the confidence in American science that it well warrants. N...

We investigate the role of the information available to the players on the outcome of the cops and robbers game. This game takes place on a graph and players move along the edges in turns. The cops win the game if they can move onto the robber’s vertex. In the standard formulation, it is assumed that the players can “see” each other at all times. A graph G is called cop-win if a single cop can ...

The allocation of risks among the contracting parties in a contract is an important decision affecting the project success. Some risks in a project are uncontrollable; these are imposed to a project by external factors. Since contracting parties can neither control nor affect the occurrence of such risks, their allocation to a party would be inequitable. Therefore the cost overrun related to un...

Did Southern whites leave the Democratic Party over Civil Rights or because economic development and other secular changes in the region made the party’s platform increasingly unattractive to them? Answering this central question in American political economy has been hampered by lack of micro-data on racial attitudes from both before and after the Civil Rights era. Our contribution is to uncov...