Powerlessness y Participacion Politica Convencional

Powerlessness of a Number

The national burden of sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains high at an annual incidence estimated at 183 000 and continues to account for a disproportionately elevated fraction of all cardiovascular deaths. Despite therapeutic advances in the treatment of coronary heart disease and heart failure and emphasis on SCD primary prevention with prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs...

Game Specification in the Trias Politica

In this paper we formalize the specification of games in the trias politica using Rao and Georgeff’s specification language BDICTL*. In particular, we generalize Rao and Georgeff’s specification of single agent decision trees to multiagent games, for which we introduce observations and recursive modelling, in this setting we formalize obligations, and we characterize four kinds of agents, calle...

Paranoia and the structure of powerlessness.

Consequences of customer powerlessness: Secondary control

This research investigated the consequences of powerlessness when consumers experience service failure with a company that has high-exit barriers. The specific consequences investigated were three types of secondary control, which are grudge-holding, avoidance (predictive avoidance), and retaliation desire. These secondary control coping strategies highlight consumers’ ability to control their ...

Negotiating Deals From a Position of Powerlessness

Negotiators are strongly advised to identify viable alternatives that they can fall back on during a negotiation. After all, alternatives give negotiators the power to extract more concessions from their opponent. The better your BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) the less dependent you are on the other negotiator for finalising a deal. In fact, past research has shown that nego...