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.

From Self Culture to Self Promotion: An Interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's Walden as an Anticipation of America's post Civil War Cultural Transition From Transcendental Individualism to Institutional Professionalism

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2012-January-01
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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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