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Measuring drug policy evolution: a cross-country analysis
Gonçalves, Ricardo; Lourenço. Ana; Marreiros, HeliaDrug policies significantly impact public health and criminal justice outcomes, yet quantitative tools for systematically comparing approaches across jurisdictions remain limited. This paper uses a state-of-the-art comparative law method – leximetrics – to construct the Illicit Drugs Policy Indexes (IDPI), a valuable resource for assessing the evolution of drug policies over time within a specific country as we...
Measuring drug policy evolution: A cross-country analysis
Gonçalves, Ricardo; Lourenço, Ana; Marreiros, HeliaDrug policies significantly impact public health and criminal justice outcomes, yet quantitative tools for systematically comparing approaches across jurisdictions remain limited. This paper uses a state-of-the-art comparative law method – leximetrics – to construct the Illicit Drugs Policy Indexes (IDPI), a valuable resource for assessing the evolution of drug policies over time within a specific country as we...
Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, MichaelWe study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of their preferences and may help to select the alternative correctly more often than simple majority. In a series of labora...