Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in Comparative Perspective

The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective

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The Beginning of Computer Science in Argentina - Clementina - (1961-1966) - A Personal Experience

1957 marked the beginning of modern education in computing in Argentina. I was lucky enough to live this part of the history. After issuing an international bid that year, all members of a special commission from the University of Buenos Aires selected the Ferranti Mercury computer to be purchased for the University. Once installed in 1961, an Institute of Calculus was created with the aim of i...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

Bureaucratic Responses

This paper’s interest is in understanding how bureaucracies should respond to their clients. I claim that because many services are not priced, bureaucratic responses to their clients will often be the opposite of the reactions of “normal” firms. Specifically, they ignore the most credible complaints from clients, provide the poorest service to clients to value the service most, and require mos...

Authoritarianism and race attitudes in South Africa.