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Good Markets Make Bad Neighbors

In their manuscript, Corsaro, Hunt, Kroovand Hipple, and McGarrell (2012, this issue) provide a valuable contribution to the literature regarding focused deterrence with an econometric evaluation of the High Point Drug Market Intervention (DMI). By employing a difference-in-difference Poisson panel regression framework, as well as group-based trajectory analyses, these authors examine the High ...

Bad Neighbors: Failed States and Their Consequences

Do Small Governments Make Bad Neighbors

The 'Race to the Bottom' theory suggests that local governments might be reluctant to adopt policies that are helpful towards poorer citizens out of fear of attracting poorer residents from nearby municipalities. Likewise, policies that are helpful to the poor may be costly and can lead to an increase in taxes that may drive away wealthier residents. Municipalities in which a majority of citize...

Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village

Many years ago Elie Wiesel observed: “The mystery of goodness far exceeds the mystery of evil.” Mimi Schwartz, the American-born daughter of a refugee father from the village of Benheim (not its real name), Germany, has written an evocative memoir that explores the goodness of certain of the village’s Christians during the Holocaust. She seeks answers to two related questions: what accounted fo...

Identifying Bad Semantic Neighbors for Improving Distributional Thesauri

Distributional thesauri are now widely used in a large number of Natural Language Processing tasks. However, they are far from containing only interesting semantic relations. As a consequence, improving such thesaurus is an important issue that is mainly tackled indirectly through the improvement of semantic similarity measures. In this article, we propose a more direct approach focusing on the...