THE CONFLICTUAL CRAFT

Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Consensual and Conflictual Democratization We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of democracies are shown to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially takes place. The political regime and the extent of redistrib...

Querying several conflictual databases

This paper addresses the problem of querying several databases considered as a whole. Assuming that the different databases share a common data description language, the problem that raises is to consistently answer queries even if the database contents are contradictory. The main contribution of this paper is the specification of a query-evaluator for answering closed and open queries addresse...

Conflictual Peacetime International Politics

Affirmative answers are given to two questions of international politics: Do the parsimonious postulates of structure theory imply any mode of behavior for states, as claimed by the theory of neorealism? Does a principle of the harmony of interests exist for states, as asserted by idealist theories? Answers emanating from an n-person game theoretic model, which portrays states as security maxim...

The Craft Consumer : Culture , craft and consumption in a postmodern

This article proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of an additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’,‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity-seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially both ‘made ...

The Craft of Modeling