Nathan P Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4453603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan P Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN N P |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4414-9547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Collective action in the sanctuary movement
In the 1980s and early 1990s, civil wars contributed to significant waves of migration from Central American countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States federal government, specifically the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), systematically denied Central American immigrants’ asylum claims and deported them back to war zones. In response, over 70,000 American citizens defied United States immigration laws in order to …
Public choice and national defense
Border militarization and domestic institutions
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of border policies and the increased militarization of border control practices on the expansion of police powers, the erosion of constitutional constraints and on other institutional spillovers. In recent decades, the Border Patrol has been integrated with the broader national security state as part of the war on drugs and the war on terror. This has entailed the acquisition of military hardwa…
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons
Behavioral public choice and policing in America
A substantial experimental literature in behavioral economics and psychology finds that individuals rely on heuristics and cognitive biases when they make decisions. These heuristics and biases impact the choices of individuals from all walks of life, including police officers entrusted with the power to enforce laws. Individuals act within an institutional context. We examine how the institutions that structure American policing interact with th…
Gifts as governance
How do gifts relate to formal and informal institutions? Giving gifts, especially in the form of anti-poverty aid, opens the givers to a serious social dilemma: the Samaritan's dilemma. We explain how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses a mixture of formal and informal governance to provide sustainable social welfare programs that avoid this dilemma. These institutions not only govern aid arrangements, but also provide governance…
The Political Economy of the Virtual Wall
Besides using physical walls to attempt to restrict movement across the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States government has also spent billions of dollars on the construction of “virtual walls.” A
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons
Public choice and national defense
The Political Economy of the Virtual Wall
Besides using physical walls to attempt to restrict movement across the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States government has also spent billions of dollars on the construction of “virtual walls.” A
Gifts as governance
How do gifts relate to formal and informal institutions? Giving gifts, especially in the form of anti-poverty aid, opens the givers to a serious social dilemma: the Samaritan's dilemma. We explain how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses a mixture of formal and informal governance to provide sustainable social welfare programs that avoid this dilemma. These institutions not only govern aid arrangements, but also provide governance…
The Political Economy of the Virtual Wall
Besides using physical walls to attempt to restrict movement across the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States government has also spent billions of dollars on the construction of “virtual walls.” A
Behavioral public choice and policing in America
A substantial experimental literature in behavioral economics and psychology finds that individuals rely on heuristics and cognitive biases when they make decisions. These heuristics and biases impact the choices of individuals from all walks of life, including police officers entrusted with the power to enforce laws. Individuals act within an institutional context. We examine how the institutions that structure American policing interact with th…
Border militarization and domestic institutions
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of border policies and the increased militarization of border control practices on the expansion of police powers, the erosion of constitutional constraints and on other institutional spillovers. In recent decades, the Border Patrol has been integrated with the broader national security state as part of the war on drugs and the war on terror. This has entailed the acquisition of military hardwa…
Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons
Collective action in the sanctuary movement
In the 1980s and early 1990s, civil wars contributed to significant waves of migration from Central American countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala. The United States federal government, specifically the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), systematically denied Central American immigrants’ asylum claims and deported them back to war zones. In response, over 70,000 American citizens defied United States immigration laws in order to …
Public choice and national defense
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