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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.

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

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Zhu, Zhengren
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

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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What Do You Meme? An Exploration of Internet Communication Through Memes

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Tilley, Shannon
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The topic of memes and the ethnographies they create are discussed. Memes that have been created and adopted by alt-right communities, specifically incels, illustrate their ideologies while simultaneously validating their views and recruiting insecure, vulnerable populations. Memes from times past...

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