VI a Framework for analysis

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VI - a Framework for analysis?

• Analysis of what, for what, how?
• Sketch of two application areas

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Analysis for what?

• The right decision (on facts and rules)
• avoiding the beginning of welfare decreasing path
  dependence, or
• ending an existing welfare decreasing path
• within Rule-of-Law preserving constraints
• employing a complex welfare function
• concerning a real question

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Analysis of what

• Law-system quality (rule of law)
• For the law-system network (institutional)
• Facing a landmark decision (constitutional)
• In a multidisciplinary way (combined beliefs)
• Example Dutch KaZaA case 0f 2001

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Analysis how (1)?

• Rsb f Institution
• Data model C, D, M, R, P, N, I, F,
  B
• Function Behaviour is motivated by beliefs
• Knowledge is represented as beliefs
• For internal coherence of institution in focus
• For contested domain overlap between multiple
  institutions

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Analysis how (2)?

• Exploratory (trying to understand and represent)
• Instantiate Rsb
• Instantiate C, D, M, R, P, N, I,
  F, B
• Explain
• Empirical (predict social behaviour)
• Instantiate C, D, M, R, P, N, I,
  F, B
• Predict Rsb
• Instantiate Rsb
• Evaluate prediction

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Essential references (law)

• Lon F. Fuller, The Morality of Law revised
  edition, Yale University Press 1969.
• Philip Bobbitt, Constitutional Fate Theory of
  the Constitution, Oxford University Press 1982.
• Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of
  Cyberspace, Basic Books 1999.
• Brian Z. Tamanaha, On the Rule of Law, Oxford
  University Press, 2004.

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Essential references (economy)

• Hal R. Varian, Intermediate Micro Economics a
  Modern Approach (seventh edition), W.W. Norton
  Company 2006.
• Ronald H. Coase, The Firm, the Market and the
  Law, The University of Chicago Press 1988.
• O. Williamson, The Economics of Governance,
  American Economic Review, 2005.
• Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity, Basic Books
  2000.
• Avner Greif, Institutions and the Path to the
  Modern Economy Lessons from Medieval Trade,
  Cambridge University Press 2006 Chapters 2, 3
  and 5.

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Essential references (anthropology)

• Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, Penguin 1966.
• Mary Douglas, Natural Symbols, Routledge 1996
  (1970).
• Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge Further Essays
  in Interpretive Anthropology, Basic Books 1983.
• Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles War Peace
  and the Course of History, Penguin Books 2002.

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Essential references (IT)

• Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher Bach, Basic
  Books 1979 Chapters on formal systems and
  proofs
• Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies, Wiley Sons,
  2000
• Schreiber, G., Akkermans, H., Anjewierden,
  Knowledge Engineering and Management, MIT Press,
  2001

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Two application areas

• Dutch KaZaA case in 2001
• Den Haag wants to create a Secure Haven