Research

Long-lived political parties bring a novel effect to political competition: the incumbent's incentives to prioritize reelection today increase when it expects its rival party to prioritze reelection in the future. 

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Does an heir’s path to succession require cooperation with their leader? Can leaders take advantage of their heirs’ ambition to increase their leeway as agenda setters? 

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Groups in an organization compete about the who and the how. A third party can influence the who and has its own vested interests about the how. Which group should it support?

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How does a power broker walk its way through the uncertainty of politics? Does it prefer to side always with the current incumbent? Or does it prefer a relationship that features path dependence?

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When is the promise of a repeal by the opposition a salutary filter against the incumbent's partisan policies, and when is it a cynical electoral strategy?

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When agents choose to either cooperate to expand a ''collective pie'' or compete to own a greater share of it, the pie's growth eventually halts and conflict ensues forever.

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As a rising great power challenges the incumbent power’s alliance,  both court rival states — will those rivals take opposite sides, or can one power keep them both? 

You have a profitable relationship with a partner that you learn to be corrupt. How long should you keep that relationship ongoing?

The educational level of the cadres of several ideological dictatorships follows a pattern: it falls in the decades immediately after the seizure of power and after recovers accompanied by generational turnover.