Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this paper, building on earlier work which suggested correlations between gender and dissent in the Supreme Court of Canada, we turn our attention to the texts in which dissent is captured. Our focus here is on language. In this piece of our ongoing project, we focus on competing versions of 'the facts' as articulated in majority and dissenting judicial decisions. Here, we compare and consider differing accounts of facts across 4 different topics of law (banking, companies, family law, criminal law). We have chosen topics with high, high/average, low/average, and low rates of dissent. We have also chosen topics not necessarily presumed to implicate gendered understandings of law or judgement.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The most common form of civil war in the post-World War II period has been a
stalemated guerrilla war confined to a rural periphery of a low-income, post-colonial
state. Standard contest models of conflict do not capture important and distinctive
features of insurgency, and in particular the fact that guerrilla survival depends on
their controlling information about who and where they are. I present a game model in
which rebel control of territory depends on how many remain uncaptured by government
forces. Capture becomes more likely as the rebel movement expands, due to network
connections among the rebels. The model explains how and why insurgencies can remain
stalemated at low levels of conflict. It also shows that standard explanations for
the strong cross-national association between poverty and civil war risk -- for
example, that poverty makes joining a rebel band a more attractive option or that risk
aversion makes the rich more fearful of conflict -- are incoherent or strongly
incomplete as typically stated. I argue that more plausible explanations for the
empirical regularity pose an indirect link, via the association of high income with
(a) natural and social terrains inimical to guerrilla hiding, (b) possibly state
military capability to conduct more efficient counterinsurgency, and (c) inability to
appropriate as large a share of income through house-to-house visits by guerrillas,
due in part to the mobility of human capital.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Previous research has shown that people appear to use television fiction memories when asked to make a judgment about social reality. It has been argued that such memory based judgment occurs because people mislabel fictitious memories or because they do not take information about source validity into account. This study argues that fiction contains cues which tell some viewers that some of what they see resembles reality. In that case a viewer makes an on line, stimulus based judgment and learns a fact while watching fiction. This “sudden insight” was called the data setting effect.
In a sample of 501 Flemish students 29 1f thirteen year olds had knowledge about police procedures in the USA which they could only have obtained by watching TV fiction. Knowledge levels increased with age. 74.4 1003410535f eighteen year olds possessed the same knowledge.
The paper argues fist, that that the data setting effect is strong and persistent. Second, that it may occur at an early age, which may explain why little or no association between measures of viewing volume and knowledge of the TV world is found in adult age groups. Third, the implication of the first two conclusions is that in TV effects research age should not be treated as a demographic background variable, but rather as a measure of overall lifetime TV viewing.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper explores the bases for, and probability of, individual securities fraud liability under Rule 10b-5 (under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of a corporate insider for undisclosed personal facts and transactions that may impact the corporation's stock price. The paper focuses on the public company context and uses the dismissed securities fraud claim from the recent criminal enforcement action against Martha Stewart as a jumping-off point for its analysis.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Contrary to popular opinion non-Mexican-origin wage earners do not suffer from competition with Mexican immigrants. The "border-wage" in Southern California and Texas is a "Mexican" wage that actually privileges Non-Hispanic Whites