We study games where voluntary contributions can be adjusted until a steady state is found. In consent games contributions start at zero and can be increased by consent, and in dissent games contributions start high and can be decreased by dissent. Equilibrium analysis predicts free riding in consent games but, in contrast, as much as socially efficient outcomes in dissent games. In our experim...

Legislative dissent occurs frequently in most parliamentary systems despite its potential detrimental effects on both party and legislator, i.e., legislators depend on their party label for re-election, whose value in turn depends in part on the party’s ability to appear cohesive. Commonly dissent has been attributed to ‘extreme’ preferences. I provide an informational rationale for dissent. Di...

This study integrates research on minority dissent and individual creativity, as well as team diversity and the quality of group decision making, with research on team participation in decision making. From these lines of research, it was proposed that minority dissent would predict innovation in teams but only when teams have high levels of participation in decision making. This hypothesis was...

In this paper, we rely on the story of the late British weapons inspector David Kelly to illustrate how sensemaking can inform the study of the ethics of suppression of dissent. Using archival data, we reconstruct Dr. Kelly’s key responsibilities as a weapons inspector and government employee. We begin by clarifying the concept of dissent and how it is a useful organizational process. We identi...

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The impact of minority dissent on group-level outcomes is explained in the current literature by two opposing mechanisms: first, through cognitive gains due to a profound change induced by minority members in the individual cognitions of the majority members, and second, through socio-affective process losses due to social rejection and relationship conflict. Groups are most effective in inform...

Dissent is an anonymous communication system that offers much stronger anonymity guarantees than Tor. Dissent clients efficiently publish anonymous messages, but any response must be broadcast to all clients. This approach does not scale to many clients or large responses. We’ve developed a private information retrieval scheme that enables clients to receieve responses without the bandwidth bur...

ISSN: 1465-0045 (Print) 1557-3028 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fgeo20 Transformative Terrains: Counter Hegemonic Tactics of Dissent in Israel Tali Hatuka To cite this article: Tali Hatuka (2012) Transformative Terrains: Counter Hegemonic Tactics of Dissent in Israel, Geopolitics, 17:4, 926-951, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2012.659298 To link to this article: http://dx.doi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the reasons why practices exempt patients from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay for performance scheme (exception reporting) and to identify the characteristics of general practices associated with informed dissent. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Data for 2008-9 extracted from the clinical computing systems of general practices in England. PARTICIPANT...

Although scholars in science and technology studies have explored many dynamics and consequences of scientific controversy, no coherent theory of scientific dissent has emerged. This paper proposes the elements of such a framework, based on understanding scientific dissent as a set of heterogeneous practices. I use the controversy over the presence of transgenic DNA in Mexican maize in the earl...