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Pampered Bureaucracy, Political Stability, and Trade Integration
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This paper shows how, under threat of revolution, a nation's elite are able to maintain political stability and hence ownership of their wealth by creating or expanding a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part ...
Interregional Archaeology in the Age of Big Data: Building Online Collaborative Platforms for Virtual Survey in the Andes
(Journal of Field Archaeology, 2020-02-20)
Archaeologists study many phenomena that scale beyond even our most geographically expansive field methodologies. The promise of collecting archaeologically relevant data beyond the scale of regional surveys is among the ...
Energy decentralization in California and New York: Conflicts in the politics of shared solar and community choice
(Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020-04)
This study reviews the development of shared (community) solar and community choice aggregation in the U.S. states of California and New York. Both states are leaders in energy-transition policy in the U.S., but they have ...