Russian Autocratic System of Rule

Russian Literature in English (RULE)

RULE205 The 19th-Century Russian Novel The 19th-century novel is widely regarded as the supreme achievement of Russian literature. This course will trace its development from Pushkin's elegant, witty novel in verse, EUGENE ONEGIN, through the grotesque comedies of Gogol, to the realist masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, with their complex depiction of human psychology and the philosophical...

Robust Rule-Based Break Assignment for Russian

This paper introduces a linguistically motivated rule-based method of automatic segmentation of a Russian text in intonational units. We claim that it can provide a high correct prosodic break assignment rate (92.1% junctures correct for spontaneous speech), staying flexible at the same time, which is especially important for rule-based models. The kernel of the proposed algorithm, in addition ...

Autocratic Legislatures and Expropriation Risk

An important question for international investors concerns the relationship between political institutions and property rights. Yet a debate remains over whether authoritarian institutions promote favorable investment climates. Using data on oil nationalization in a sample of autocracies, this study finds that legislatures are correlated with lower expropriation risk in non-personalist dictator...

Autocratic strategies for alternating games.

Repeated games have a long tradition in the behavioral sciences and evolutionary biology. Recently, strategies were discovered that permit an unprecedented level of control over repeated interactions by enabling a player to unilaterally enforce linear constraints on payoffs. Here, we extend this theory of "zero-determinant" (or, more generally, "autocratic") strategies to alternating games, whi...

Through the Russian Looking Glass: The Development of a Russian Rule of Law and Democracy