Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Political Regime and Corruption Control: Information Quality and an Optimal Mechanism

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2015-January-01
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Different political regimes have principals that possess different in- formation regarding agents' behavior. This paper studies how this difference affects the comparative efficiency of corruption control between a democratic regime and an authoritarian regime. We ob- serve that such comparative...

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Speaking to the Silences: Black Women's Mediation of Historical Trauma and Healing

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2014-January-01
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Black women's trauma, which is largely unclaimed, un-mediated and unrecognized, is transgenerational. The physical, social, and psychological effects of holding on to a racialized history of trauma, caused by systematic and structural racism and sexism, continue to effect the identity...

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Temporal Exploration of the Proceedings of Old Bailey

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2020-January-01
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1913 (Hitchcock et al., 2012b) is a published record of criminal proceedings at London's central criminal court. The Proceedings primarily depict the lives of the "non-elite" population of London. This project explores these proceedings...

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