Socio spatial strategies of school selection in a free parental choice context

Two competitors try to maximize their respective market shares by acquiring smaller, passive companies. The heavy logistics bill and inherent scale economies in production recommend contagious expansion. This process is channeled by physical barriers and population distribution. Rationalization of production and distribution is postponed. The historical example is derived from the Swedish brewery industry. It may be seen as a game with a set of rules and some probabilistic parameters. The game is played thirty-seven times, by two persons at a time. The results span a spectrum of spatial strategies, dominated by three main types, one of which corresponds to the historical outcome. To get a firmer hold of ‘good’ strategies, the probabilistic elements are replaced by a simple indicator, the territory is abstracted into a network, and the decisionmaking sequence is analyzed deductively. The same three main types of strategy reemerge. One of them is tentatively considered to be a Nash equilibrium.

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The Determinants and Consequences of Accurate Beliefs About Childhood Vaccinations

American Politics Research ◽

10.1177/1532673x17745342 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 628-649 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Mark R. Joslyn ◽

Steven M. Sylvester

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Survey Data ◽

Party Identification ◽

Motivated Reasoning ◽

Parental Choice ◽

Practical Significance ◽

The Public ◽

Policy Attitudes ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

In this article, we examine the individual predictors that are responsible for accurate beliefs about the link between vaccinations and autism. We then show how these beliefs affect policy preferences about vaccines. We derive two hypotheses from motivated reasoning theory and test these on national survey data from Gallup and CBS News. Republicans were less likely to report accurate beliefs than Democrats. In addition, educational attainment modified the impact of party identification. The gap between Republicans and Democrats in likelihood of reporting accurate beliefs was largest among the most educated portion of the public. Finally, we show that accurate beliefs about vaccines, independent of statistical controls, are important predictors of policy attitudes about unvaccinated children attending public school and parental choice about the decision to vaccinate. We discuss the theoretical and practical significance of these findings.

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Empathic choices for animals versus humans: the role of choice context and perceived cost

The Journal of Social Psychology ◽

10.1080/00224545.2021.1997890 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

C. Daryl Cameron ◽

Michael L. Lengieza ◽

Eliana Hadjiandreou ◽

Janet K. Swim ◽

Robert M. Chiles

Keyword(s):

Choice Context

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Transnational Support for Urban Climate Adaptation: Emerging Forms of Agency and Dependency

Global Environmental Politics ◽

10.1162/glep_a_00467 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 25-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Eric K. Chu

Keyword(s):

Climate Adaptation ◽

Urban Climate ◽

Institutional Culture ◽

External Support ◽

Political Agency ◽

Global Marketplace ◽

Spatial Strategies ◽

Transnational Actors ◽

Economic Constraints ◽

Political Economic

Transnational actors are critical for financing programs and generating awareness around climate change adaptation in cities. However, it is unclear whether transnational support actually enables more authority over adaptation actions and whether outcomes address wide-ranging development needs. In this article, I compare experiences from three cities in India—Surat, Indore, and Bhubaneswar—and link local political agency over adaptation with their supporting transnational funders. I find that adaptation governance involves powers of agency over directing bureaucratic practices, public finance, spatial strategies, and institutional culture. A city’s ability to exert these powers then yields different patterns of adaptation. However, political agency is circumscribed by a combination of historical political economic constraints and emerging transnational resources that promote specific forms of political meaning and procedures. The presence of external support therefore paradoxically constrains the governance autonomy of cities. This opens up new opportunities for development dependency—that is, ones that mirror neoliberal critiques of foreign aid—within the global marketplace for climate finance.

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