New Technologies and Not-So-New Democracies

Workshop Report: The New and the Not So New

Crime in New Democracies ∗

Crime rates have surged in nearly all new democracies. To explain this empirical regularity, we model the effects of political regimes on law enforcement and parametrize political regimes by their vulnerability to violent overthrow. It is assumed that democracies are less vulnerable than dictatorships. We first show that dictatorships generate more investment in “political protection” or secret...

Democracy promotion and “ new ” democracies

Since the early decades of the 20 th century, an element of international relations has been the notion that democratic ideals are universal and that their spread across the globe can be encouraged by governments. One of the more recent expressions of the idea has been the “democracy promotion” programs funded by official aid agencies of developed democracies, but the idea has changed and evolv...

The Food Crisis and New Technologies

The present crisis in global economy, the issue of cli mate change and the fast-growing world population, <span style="font-variant: normal; font-s...

Not so new: overblown claims for 'new' approaches to emotion

Motivation • During the past decade, some philosophers and psychologists have argued that the conceptual resources of classical cognitive science cannot adequately account for certain important features of emotion. They have further argued that these features can be captured by nonclassical forms of cognitive science. This may be termed the non-classical thesis of emotion (NCE). • Many statemen...