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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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TL;DR: The dilemma of democratic competence as discussed by the authors, which emerges when researchers find their expectations regarding democratic responsiveness to be in conflict with their findings regarding the context dependency of individual preferences, is attributed to scholars' normative expectations rather than to deficiencies of mass democratic politics.
Abstract: This article analyzes what I term “the dilemma of democratic competence,” which emerges when researchers find their expectations regarding democratic responsiveness to be in conflict with their findings regarding the context dependency of individual preferences. I attribute this dilemma to scholars' normative expectations, rather than to deficiencies of mass democratic politics. I propose a mobilization conception of political representation and develop a systemic understanding of reflexivity as the measure of its legitimacy. This article thus contributes to the emergent normative argument that political representation is intrinsic to democratic government, and links that claim to empirical research on political preference formation.
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TL;DR: The economics of force in the new wars is discussed in this paper, with a focus on the economic aspects of war and its economic effects on state-building and the Thrity years War.
Abstract: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. What is new about the new wars?. 2. Warfare, state--building and the Thrity Years War. 3. The statization of war. 4. The economics of force in the new wars. 5. International terrorism. 6. Military interventions and the West's dilemma. Notes. Index
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TL;DR: In this paper, a research program on intellectual discussion in academic institutions is presented as a case that illustrates a method for constructing grounded practical communication theory, which is conceived as a rational reconstruction of practices for the purpose of informing further practice and reflection.
Abstract: A research program on intellectual discussion in academic institutions is presented as a case that illustrates a method for constructing grounded practical communication theory. Within a practical discipline perspective, theory is conceived as a rational reconstruction of practices for the purpose of informing further practice and reflection. The theoretical reconstruction of communication practices can be undertaken at three interrelated levels of analysis, here called the technical, problem, and philosophical levels. Based on interpretive discourse analysis of recorded departmental colloquia and interviews with participants, we identify a complex interactional dilemma that arises within this type of communicative situation (problem level), specific techniques by which participants attempt to cope with that dilemma (technical level), and two situated ideals to which they have recourse for reflecting on the normative basis of their own and others' actions (philosophical level). Because of the ways grounded practical theory differs from other theoretical approaches, we argue that existing criteria for evaluating theories must be rethought within this radically reflexive enterprise.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the challenges facing latecomer firms in the transition phase from catch up to leadership status, in order to assess the "strategic dilemma" argument and examine the nature of transition innovation.
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TL;DR: The notion of a Nash equilibrium has joined supply and demand as one of the two or three techniques that economists instinctively try to use first in the analysis of economic interactions as discussed by the authors, and the Nash equilibrium and closely related game-theoretic concepts are being widely applied in other social sciences and even in biology.
Abstract: The notion of a Nash equilibrium has joined supply and demand as one of the two or three techniques that economists instinctively try to use first in the analysis of economic interactions. Moreover, the Nash equilibrium and closely related game-theoretic concepts are being widely applied in other social sciences and even in biology, where evolutionary stability often selects a subset of the Nash equilibria. Many people are uneasy about the stark predictions of the Nash equilibrium in some contexts where the extreme rationality assumptions seem implausible. Kaushik Basu’s (1994) “traveler’s dilemma” is a particularly convincing example of a case where the unrelenting logic of game theory is at odds with intuitive notions about human behavior. The story associated with the dilemma is that two travelers purchase identical antiques while on a tropical vacation. Their luggage is lost on the return trip, and the airline asks them to make independent claims for compensation. In anticipation of excessive claims, the airline representative announces:
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