A model of protests, revolution, and information

S Barbera, MO Jackson - Revolution, and Information (October …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
A collective action or revolt succeeds only if sufficiently many people participate. We study
how potential revolutionaries' ability to coordinate is affected by what they learn from …

Preferences for efficiency, rather than preferences for morality, drive cooperation in the one-shot Stag-Hunt Game

V Capraro, I Rodriguez-Lara, MJ Ruiz-Martos - Journal of Behavioral and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent work highlights that cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's dilemma (PD) is primarily
driven by moral preferences for doing the right thing, rather than social preferences for …

[PDF][PDF] Transformational leadership and employee creativity in an information technology (IT) enterprises: moderating role of openness to experience

S Ghimire, AJ Haron, HS Bhatti - Hypothesis, 2021 - researchgate.net
The creativity and innovation in an Information Technology (IT) industry are essential for
sustainable success, gaining competitive advantages, as well as is vitalfor the survival of …

[PDF][PDF] How Facebook facilitated the Jasmine Revolution. Conceptualizing the functions of online social network communication

MG Müller, C Hübner - Journal of social media studies, 2014 - Citeseer
This paper investigates the role that the social network platform Facebook played during the
so-called Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia at the end of 2010, leading to the toppling of the …

Overcoming coordination failure in a critical mass game: strategic motives and action disclosure

A Masiliūnas - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
We study whether coordination failure is more often overcome if players can disclose their
actions at a lower cost. In an experiment subjects first choose their action and then choose …

Emoción en acción: el caso de# RosarioSangra en Twitter (Rosario, Argentina, 2016)

IL Gindin, SR Castro Rojas, N Coiutti, AL Cardoso… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
En este artículo, a partir del análisis de un caso particular, buscamos comprender el modo
en que algunas temáticas propias de los intereses ciudadanos logran traspasar las redes …

Weak central government, strong legal rights: the origins of divergent legal institutions in 18th-century Chinese and Japanese rice markets

R Wang, Q Zhu, M Noellert - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2024 - nature.com
This paper examines the formation of legal institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan
with a focus on the rice market. In both countries in the 18th century, rice was the most …

Small-world networks and synchronisation in an agent-based model of civil violence

M Fonoberova, I Mezić, J Mezić, J Hogg, J Gravel - Global Crime, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid evolution and current ubiquity of social media as a form of communication calls for
a revision of many models of collective behaviour. In this paper, we modify a classic agent …

Game Theoretic Choices Between Corrupt Dictatorship Exit Emoluments and Nation-Building CDR Benefits: Is There a Nash Equilibrium?

D Ridley, A de Silva - The American Economist, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent developments in economic theory have established that gross domestic product
(GDP) is determined almost entirely by the institutions of capitalism, democracy, and rule of …

[HTML][HTML] Twitter and the Affordance: A Case Study of Participatory Roles in the# Marchforourlives Network

M Chong - Digital, 2024 - mdpi.com
The study empirically analyzed activism participants' roles drawn from the lens of social
media affordance and identified the activism opinion leaders based on the framework of …