Why Do Green Parties Emerge?

Why did life emerge?

Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure. The 2 law of thermodynamics, written as an equation of motion, reveals that elemental abiotic matter evolves from the equilibrium via chemical reactions that couple to external energy toward complex biotic nonequili...

The Return of the Nativist? Why did anti-migrant parties emerge and succeed in Mumbai, fail in Bangalore, and not even emerge in Delhi?

Migration as well as group conflict has occurred throughout history. This thesis examined why in response to internal migration to Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi there are varying levels of nativism. The level of nativism was found to be high in Mumbai, medium in Delhi, and low in Bangalore. Anti-migrant sentiment was explained by political competition in Mumbai, class prejudice in Delhi, and an ...

1. Do animal personalities emerge?

How do communication systems emerge?

Communication involves a pair of behaviours--a signal and a response--that are functionally interdependent. Consequently, the emergence of communication involves a chicken-and-egg problem: if signals and responses are dependent on one another, then how does such a relationship emerge in the first place? The empirical literature suggests two solutions to this problem: ritualization and sensory m...

How Do Decisions Emerge ? Werner

The basic idea of decision emergence is to generate the prefered decision alternative instead of assuming it as exogeneously given like in neo-classical economics and game theory. The particular problem of ultimatum proposals has been selected in order to rely on experimental observations when speculating how choices emerge. Our approach distinguishes primary and secondary concerns of ultimatum...