Yeon-Koo Che and Ian Gale (1998) [CG, hereafter] studied the impact of imposing a cap on lobbying expenditures. They showed that a cap may lead to (1) greater expected aggregate expenditure and (2) a less efficient allocation of a political prize. In their comment, Todd Kaplan and David Wettstein (2005) [KW, hereafter] show that if the cap is not rigid (i.e., its effect on the cost of lobbying ...

Mandarin A-not-A questions, hereafter referred to as ANAQs, have distinct syntactic and prosodic features. As shown in (1), ANAQs make both positive and negative answers explicit by conjoining the verb and its negative counterpart. Furthermore, ANAQs obligatorily end with a final low tone (see Section 2.2.2). These features distinguish ANAQs from ma questions (hereafter, MAQs), which lack a fin...

One central purpose of Experimental Philosophy (hereafter, x-phi) is to criticize the alleged reliance on intuitions in contemporary philosophy. In my book Philosophy without Intuitions (hereafter, PWI), I argue that philosophers don’t rely on intuitions. If those arguments are good, experimental philosophy has been engaged in an attack on a strawman. The goal of this paper is to bolster the cr...

In the Czech language there exists, aside from the ‘literary’ (standard) language, a spoken form, which is generally regarded as a special and independent code. It has been known as Common Czech (hereafter CC) since Havránek (1934). The differences between CC and the Czech Literary Language (hereafter LC) are quite substantial. They concern not only the lexicon, phraseology and syntax, but also...