Activist Directors and Agency Costs: What Happens When an Activist Director Goes on the Board?

Toward an Activist Political Theory

An Activist Model of Democracy

The focus of this paper is that actual political systems do not appear to satisfy the property of convergence to an electoral center that is often predicted by formal vote models. The key theoretical idea is that the convergence result need not hold if there is an asymmetry in the electoral perception of the “quality” of party leaders (Stokes 1992). The average weight given to the perceived qua...

What Happens When Word of Mouth Goes Mobile?

Individuals are likely to exhibit different behaviors between mobile and non-mobile devices, for a number of reasons. For example, mobile devices enable ubiquitous access, through their portability, yet they also constrain users because of the smaller form factor. Very little work to date has attempted to examine the impact of these differences holistically. Indeed, the work that does exist has...

Queerying borders: an Afrikan activist perspective.

This article offers an overview of academic work that focuses on queer sexualities in Africa and argues that binary categories, particularly those imported from outside Africa, are not adequate for addressing African sexualities.

Foreword: Law in an Activist State