Ukrainian Strategic Communications and martial law

Martial Law and the State of Siege

Duverger’s Law Without Strategic Voting

Duverger’s Law states that plurality rule in single member districts tends to produce a two-party system. Most formal explanations of this Law rely on strategic voting. In this paper we present a model that yields Duverger’s Law without this assumption. Specifically, we show that even with nonstrategic or “sincere” voters, the strategic decisions of policy-motivated candidates lead to two candi...

Strategic questions for consumer-based health communications.

Using the consumer-oriented approach of social and commercial marketers, this article presents a process for crafting messages designed to improve people's health behaviors. The process, termed consumer-based health communications (CHC), transforms scientific recommendations into message strategies that are relevant to the consumer. The core of CHC is consumer research conducted to understand t...

Strategic Human Resource Management for Law Firms

Information and communications technologies, strategic asymmetry and national security

In the history of warfare, there are a number of examples of strategic uses of asymmetric technologies. Consistent with history and theory, individuals, organizations and nations have spotted opportunities to employ information and communications technologies to gain and exploit asymmetric advantages and to counter asymmetric weaknesses. This article discusses various asymmetries associated wit...