THE DEMOCRATIC BOUNDARY PROBLEM RECONSIDERED

The Module Isomorphism Problem Reconsidered

Algorithms to decide isomorphism of modules have been honed continually over the last 30 years, and their range of applicability has been extended to include modules over a wide range of rings. Highly efficient computer implementations of these algorithms form the bedrock of systems such as GAP and Magma, at least in regard to computations with groups and algebras. By contrast, the fundamental ...

The College Admissions Problem Reconsidered

This paper revisits the college admissions problem and studies the efficiency, incentive, and monotonicity for colleges. We show that max-min criterion that is stronger than substitutability, together with the quota-saturability that requires having enough acceptable applicants, guarantees weak Pareto efficiency and strategy-proofness for colleges under the colleges-proposing deferred acceptanc...

The Monty Hall Problem, Reconsidered

Controlling Corruption Through Democratic Empowerment: Market-Style Accountability Reconsidered

DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND REGIME SURVIVAL: Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies Reconsidered

We review arguments and empirical evidence found in the comparative literature that bear on the differences in the survival rates of parliamentary and presidential democracies. Most of these arguments focus on the fact that presidential democracies are based on the separation of executive and legislative powers, while parliamentary democracies are based on the fusion of these powers. From this ...