History & Political Science

Question Assuming a citizen candidate model with a runoff system. If a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round, he wins the election. If no candidate recei...

Question Assume a citizen candidate model with the following electoral rule. Voters rank the candidates and give their first two ranked candidates a weight of I. and all other can...

QuestionConsider the following argument:Obama’s plans for gun control are useless. To try to ban assault rifles or to do background checks for people before they can buy a gu...

QuestionHoogenboezem, J. A., & Hoogenboezem, D. (2005) ‘Coping with targets: performance measurement in The Netherlands police’, International Journal of Productivi...

Question Is Australia’s national response to climate change justifiable and adequate to the problem?  If not, why not and how should it change? Summary The essay bel...

Question Consider a polity of 77 citizens who are choosing among the social alternatives in the set A = {w, x, y, z}. Consider the following aggregation rules:   (i)The con...

Question Consider a society that is trying to decide its tax policy on income as well as on bonuses that individuals receive at work. There is a continuum of individuals in societ...

Question In the context of social choice theory, provide an example of an aggregation rule that satisfies IIA, non-dictatorship but still yields a transitive social preference for...

Question Short Essay on Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World The book Bravo for the Marshallese, by Holly M. Barker, tells the story...

Question Assume that a group of four individuals, N = {1,2,3,4}, is trying to choose between four alternatives, A = {x,y,z,w}. Assume that they use Borda rule where they give weig...