Abstract We define Artificial Intelligence-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) as interpersonal
communication in which an intelligent agent operates on behalf of a communicator by …

▪ Abstract With tools borrowed from the economic analysis of insurance, principal-agency
theory has allowed political scientists new insights into the role of information asymmetry …

Blockchain, the underlying technology of digital currency, such as Bitcoin, has the
characteristics of decentralization, stability, security, anonymity, and nontampering …

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to
reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones …

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic
governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state …

This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization.
Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and …

Longstanding assumptions underlying strategic alliances, such as agency theory, are
actively being revoked by dynamics in the new economy. The mechanism of inter-firm …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

This book provides a framework for thinking about economic instiutions such as firms. The
basic idea is that institutions arise in situations where people write incomplete contracts and …

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the
dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about …