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Institutional Harm through Threshold Cascades
Piper Harris, Chad M. Topaz
Can a population of people not individually inclined to harm others nonetheless produce harmful collective outcomes, purely because of the institutional structure they inhabit? Soc…
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How Withheld Punishment Enables Authoritarian Persistence: An Evolutionary Dynamics Approach
Chad M. Topaz
Democratic backsliding is often framed as a contest between pro-democratic defenders and anti-institutional norm-breakers. That framing can miss a third behavior, a public that wit…