Informational Autocrats

How Autocrats Defend Themselves against Armed Rivals

DEALING WITH TYRANNY: International Sanctions and Autocrats’ Duration

This paper enquires into whether economic sanctions are effective in destabilizing authoritarian rulers. We argue that this effect is mediated by the type of authoritarian regime against which sanctions are imposed. Thus, personalist regimes and monarchies, which are more dependent on aid and resource rents to maintain their patronage networks, are more likely to be affected by sanctions. In co...

From Informational Confidence to Informational Intelligence

This paper is a continuation of my previous work on informational confidence. The main idea of this technique is to normalize confidence values from different sources in such a way that they match their informational content determined by their performance in an application domain. This reduces classifier combination to a simple integration of information. The proposed method has shown good res...

Informational Macromolecules

in Wilson's disease, and localization of iron in hemochromatosis. On pages 2 and 166, Birks discussed future trends in electron probe mocroanalysis, including lower cost instruments and those that will quantitate elements down to carbon. Such developments would open this microanalytic technique to the realm of the biologist. Birks writes with a crisp style, and with the insight of a worker in t...

Informational Realism

What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable by using the methodology of the levels of abstractions. It follows that OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendl...