Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi present estimates of six aggregate governance indicators in each of the four dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and periods. They present the point estimates of the territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and dimensions of governance as well

This work demonstrates the application of the distributed behavior-based approach [1] to generating a multi-robot controller for a group of mobile robots performing a clean-up and collection task. The paper studies a territorial approach to the task in which the robots are assigned individual

Behavioral interactions among individuals in territorial clusters of the longfin damselfish Stegastes diencaeus

territorial behaviors are used to construct, communicate, maintain, and restore territories in organizations. We then go on to discuss the organizational consequences of these behaviors, including their effects on organizational commitment, conflict, preoccupation, and individual isolation.

: the individuals and groups involved—in particular, the leaders of the military-industrial complex and the politicians playing the nationalist tune—find it individually rational to fight for territories, but from the point of view of society, it is difficult to see what is really gained. The same conclusion often

The prisoner’s dilemma has long been considered the paradigm for studying the emergence of cooperation among selfish individuals. Because of its importance, it has been studied through computer experiments as well as in the laboratory and by analytical means. However, there are important

Workers of the Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis, start to explore a chemically unmarked territory randomly. As the exploratory front advances, other explorers are recruited and a trail extends from it to the nest. Whereas recruitment trails are generally constructed between two points

Attachment to territory is a powerful force in both state and system formation. Individuals are often willing to sacrifice their taxes and even their lives for territory considered part of their polity. This paper proposes one “bottomup” mechanism to explain why people are willing to sacrifice

This article provides some of the first individual-level evidence for the domestic salience of territorial issues. Using survey data from more than 80,000 individual respondents in 43 separate countries, we examine how conflict affects the con-tent of individual self-identification. We find

Inferring the role of interactions in territorial animals relies upon accurate recordings of the behaviour of neighbouring individuals. Such accurate recordings are rarely available from field studies. As a result, quantification of the interaction mechanisms has often relied upon theoretical