• Corruption and paradoxes in alliances 

      Nieva Chávez, Ricardo (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      Acceso restringido
      In order to study corruption when a person can adjudicate over property rights, we extend the Tullock contest model by letting identical workers and a non-productive enforcer, who is more effective at fighting, contest ...
    • Heterogeneous coalitions and social revolutions 

      Nieva Chávez, Ricardo (SAGE Publications, 2021)
      Acceso restringido
      We have explained the presence of heterogeneous winning coalitions in social revolutions. In an overcrowded agrarian society, two almost identical non-productive enforcers, the landed political elite, collude and bargain ...