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Suboptimal Human Rights Decision-Making, Richard C. Chen
Suboptimal Human Rights Decision-Making, Richard C. Chen
Florida State University Law Review
The literature on human rights generally assumes that when a state fails to comply with human rights norms, it is because the state’s leaders rationally determined that a violation would maximize the state’s expected utility. Strategies for improving compliance accordingly focus on altering a state’s expected utility calculation either through coercion, which seeks to introduce external incentives that make compliance more attractive, or persuasion, which seeks to recalibrate a state’s underlying preferences. A wide array of social science research, however, has demonstrated that human beings regularly make suboptimal decisions that fail to maximize their expected utility. This so-called behavioral research …
Political Uncertainty And The Market For Ipos, Jay B. Kesten, Murat C. Mungan
Political Uncertainty And The Market For Ipos, Jay B. Kesten, Murat C. Mungan
Scholarly Publications
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