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Working Paper
Civil Liberties and Social Structure
Governments use coercion to aggregate distributed information relevant to governmental objectives—from the prosecution of regime-stability threats to terrorism or epidemics. A cohesive social structure facilitates this task, as reliable information will often come from friends and acquaintances. A cohesive citizenry can more easily exercise collective action to resist such intrusions, however. We present an equilibrium theory where this tension mediates the joint determination of social structure and civil liberties. We show that segregation and unequal treatment sustain each other as ...
Speech
Reflections on the new compliance landscape
Remarks at ?The New Compliance Landscape: Increasing Roles ? Increasing Risks? Conference, New York City.