Institutional Responses to Religious Diversity

Hindu Responses to Religious Diversity and the Nature of Post-Mortem Progress

Thurman • Institutional Responses to Medical Mistakes

Health care institutions must decide whether to inform the patient of a medical error. The barriers to disclosure are an aversion to admitting errors, a concern about implicating other practitioners, and a fear of lawsuits and liability. However, admission of medical errors is the ethical thing to do and may be required by law. When examined, the barriers to such disclosures have little merit, ...

Managing Diversity through Institutional Design

The idea that political institutions can be deliberately shaped or “engineered” in order to achieve desired political outcomes is hardly new-the authors of the Constitution of the United States, for example, vigorously debated various configurations of rules, constraints, and incentives that might simultaneously disperse political power over a wide range of actors, while at the same time provid...

‘Religious Diversity’ in Contemporary Chinese Scholarship

Contemporary China offers a particularly interesting setting to study religious diversity as a result of its unique socio-political context. Based on the quantitative and qualitative evidence in a representative sample of Chinese dissertations, this essay identifies two characteristics associated with the usage of ‘religious diversity’ in contemporary Chinese scholarship: firstly, the focal poi...

Institutional diversity in retirement saving

This paper examines the conditions under which members of a defined benefit pension plan might bear investment risk, and examines the tradeoffs between defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans under these conditions. Wages and asset returns are assumed to be stochastic, and individuals are assumed to have no access to other savings markets or markets where human capital risk can b...