Incumbents significantly outperform challengers in American elections, but the normative implications of this phenomenon are ambiguous. Do incompetent officials exploit the political system to keep themselves in power, or do open elections effectively select for good leaders? To address this question, I define and estimate three components of incumbent success in elections— (1) party match, (2)...

1 epoch 2 Abbreviated Title: Context-dependent unloading responses 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Authors and Addresses: 17 Joseph Y. Nashed, Isaac Kurtzer and Stephen H. Scott 18 Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 19 Department of Biomedical Sciences, NYIT – College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old 20 Westbury, New York, USA 21 Department of Anatomy ...

The 4% rule is the advice most often given to retirees for managing spending and investing. This rule and its variants finance a constant, non-volatile spending plan using a risky, volatile investment strategy. As a result, retirees accumulate unspent surpluses when markets outperform and face spending shortfalls when markets underperform. The previous work on this subject has focused on the pr...

Recent years have seen significant advances in the study of symmetric informationally complete (SIC) quantum measurements, also known as maximal sets of complex equiangular lines. Previously, the published record contained solutions up to dimension 67, and was with high confidence complete up through dimension 50. Computer calculations have now furnished solutions in all dimensions up to 151, a...

IT is a privilege to have been asked to give the sixty-ninth Mary Scott Newbold Lecture. The list of my predecessors is indeed distinguished. The topic, cardiac failure, was chosen because my colleagues and I have been concerned with this problem for almost a quarter of a century. In this lecture I propose to outline my present concepts based on the evolution of thinking which has resulted from...

A new characterization of nondeterministic concurrent strategies exhibits strategies as certain discrete fibrations—or equivalently presheaves—over configurations of the game. This leads to a lax functor from the bicategory of strategies to the bicategory of profunctors. The lax functor expresses how composition of strategies is obtained from that of profunctors by restricting to ‘reachable’ el...

In this article, I seek to identify a limitation in the analysis James Scott offers in Seeing Like a State (1998) by asking to what extent his account of the follies of schemes for planned improvement by states provides critical leverage on the present world of neoliberal global capitalism. Scott has claimed that a dynamic of standardization, homogenization, and grid making applies not only to ...

Introduction. These notes are based upon a day-long lecture workshop presented by Simon Thomas at the University of Ohio at Athens on November 17, 2007. The workshop served as an intensive introduction to the emerging theory of countable Borel equivalence relations. These notes are an updated and slightly expanded version of an earlier draft which was compiled from the lecture slides by Scott S...

The Ombudsman column was created with the belief that academic journals ignore many important problems. Halse and Lilien, in the following paper, approach this issue by hoking at the reward systems in universities: do they encourage or discourage competent work on important problems? It is easy to do trivial work on important problems . . . but it is difficult to publish it. Far more profitable...

Vol. XLVIII (April 2011), 228 –237 *Scott I. Rick is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (e-mail: [email protected]). Deborah A. Small is Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (e-mail: [email protected]. edu). Eli J. Finkel is Associate Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University (e-m...