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A controversial collection of interrelated papers which investigate and argue about issues of concern for contemporary lawyers and politicians. The papers combine a scholarly regard for leading thinkers of the past and present, and a stringently argued view about questions of political obligation.

This dissertation is an exhibition of applied microeconomic theory in political and resource economics. As three examples, I investigate three different questions, respectively: Does polarization of beliefs always intensify political gridlock in collective decision making? Will input-efficiency improvement in water use, e.g., adoption of more-efficient irrigation technologies and investment in water-conveyance systems, definitely decrease the demand for water-storage capacities, e.g., dams and reservoirs? Is collectivism, rather than individualism, generally helping society overcome the collective action problem? Using the game-theory or stochastic-control approach, I theoretically challenge conventional wisdoms about these questions, and illustrate the empirical relevance of my challenges, qualitatively or quantitatively, in different contexts, e.g., the Chinese transition from the planned economy, World War II and Operation Market--Garden, the irrigation water-inventory management of the California State Water Project, and the histories of collective action in China and Europe.

"Suffer no man to be king": friendship, liberty, and status in Roman political thought -- Without "superfluous ornament": Castiglione, Machiavelli, and the performance of counsel -- "The monarch's plague": the problem of flattery and Hobbes' contingently unitary sovereign -- "The bewitching engine": Mandeville and Smith on flattery, praise, and the origins of language -- "Flattering to young ambitious minds": representing America in the ratification debates

Lincoln University-Missouri, an HBCU, had four undergraduate students and one professor attend the Midwest Political Science Association annual conference in Chicago, IL, in April 2022. Students observed professional researchers presenting and interacting in novel settings, and the students were inspired to present their own research at next year's MPSA conference.

The 2006 midterm has undercut some familiar assertions about contemporary electoral politics. Political analysts seem to have overstated Republican advantages in several areas: voter turnout, campaign finance, congressional apportionment, party unity, and social issues. The GOP's loss is the discipline's gain, as the election raises good questions for scholarly research. Adapted from the source document.