Chrysippus on Retribution and Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation or Retribution? “Cultures of Control” and Policies vis-à-vis Renegade regimes

The paper suggests a framework for analyzing democracies’ policies towards renegade regimes, i.e. regimes whose defining feature is regarded to be norm-breaking (e.g. Iran or North Korea). The paper argues that policies towards renegade regimes are heavily influenced by domestic cultures of control because the problem of recurrent violations of community norms as posed by renegade regimes to th...

Wolfgang Wagner Rehabilitation or Retribution ? “ Cultures of Control ” and Policies vis - à - vis Renegade States

The paper suggests a framework for analyzing democracies’ policies towards renegade states, i.e. states whose defining feature is regarded to be norm-breaking (e.g. Iran or North Korea). The paper argues that policies towards renegade states are heavily influenced by domestic cultures of control because the problem of recurrent violations of community norms as posed by renegade states to the in...

The moonlighting game An experimental study on reciprocity and retribution

We introduce the moonlighting game. Player A can take money from or pass money to player B, who can either return money or punish player A. Thus, our game allows to study both positively and negatively reciprocal behaviour. One-shot experiments were conducted with and without the possibility of making non-binding contracts beforehand. We find that retribution is much more compelling than recipr...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...

Retribution and the Experience of Punishment