Ilia Murtazashvili
Biographic Data
| ID | 96583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilia Murtazashvili |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Murtazashvili |
| SIGNATURE | MURTAZASHVILI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9096-9488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Event Detection and Sharing in 6, 7, and 12 GHz Bands
The scarcity of available spectrum bands has prompted the exploration and analysis of strategies for sharing spectrum. The United States is considering spectrum sharing in several bands as part of its National Spectrum Strategy. This article considers sharing spectrum with the Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS) in the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure 8 (U-NII-8) and 12 GHz bands. The article authors develop simple models to examine t…
Diseases of commerce: Unbundling economic freedom and public health
Rebel victory and constitutional change
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar
Public choice and national defense: Lessons for the Russian–Ukrainian war
Polycentric systems for spectrum management: The case of Indigenous and tribal spectrum sovereignty
How democracies live: A review essay on Shadi Hamid’s The Problem of Democracy
Shadi Hamid’s The Problem of Democracy is the rare book that will be of immense value to both those who agree and disagree with its argument. This essay constructively considers Hamid’s arguments. It suggests that the case for democratic minimalism might be strengthened by considering the role of economic freedom as a source of democratic resilience
Spectrum Rights in Outer Space
This article presents a comprehensive summary of the regulatory environment confronting low earth orbit, non-geostationary satellite orbit (LEO NGSO) communication satellites and critically evaluates analogies from terrestrial spectrum management as possibilities for LEO NGSO satellites. This analysis provides a framework for empirical analysis of the alternatives considered
Complex externalities: Introduction to the special issue
Military societies: Self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country
We argue that criminal justice institutions must be accessible to citizens, legitimate and have capacity to enforce law. Such was the case with the military societies of the Plains Indians: a system of criminal justice that predated the time of European contact and which remained a significant source of law and order in Indian country until the Indian Wars concluded at the end of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, the federal government attempt…
The political economy of American Indian policy: Introduction to a special issue
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution
Censorship and mental models
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics
Research in comparative politics on informal institutions can be grouped into analysis of norms and values within government institutions and studies of self-governance in communities that are relatively isolated from states. Three recent books by Nadya Hajj, Shelby Grossman, and David Skarbek advance this research agenda by showing that self-governance can be significant even in contexts where the state is present, including refugee camps, marke…
Spectrum Sovereignty on Tribal Lands: Assessing the Digital Reservations Act
The current system for managing spectrum in the United States gives the federal government essentially all authority over electromagnetic spectrum management and governance on tribal lands. The Deploying the Internet by Guaranteeing Indian Tribes Autonomy over Licensing (DIGITAL) Reservations Act envisions a system of spectrum governance that affirms tribal self-determination in managing and licensing the natural resource called spectrum. Though …
From defunding to refunding police: Institutions and the persistence of policing budgets
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery
Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: A new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback)
Blockchains for emergency and crisis management
Public managers and administrators confront the increasing scale and prevalence of crises. Despite some deployments, blockchain applications by governments for emergency management and response management have only begun to scratch the surface. To facilitate greater awareness of the promises and challenges of blockchain applications to the public sector, we consider the ways in which distributed ledger technologies can improve emergency and crisi…
Toward a Political Economy of the Commons: Simple Rules for Sustainability
Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and…
Pandemics, economic freedom, and institutional trade-offs
Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons
Researchers interested in blockchains are increasingly attuned to questions of governance, including how blockchains relate to government, the ways blockchains are governed, and ways blockchains can improve prospects for successful self-governance. Our paper joins this research by exploring the implications of the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework to analyze governance of blockchains. Our novel contributions are making the case that blo…
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Individualism and governance of the commons
Sugarcoating the bitter pill: Compensation, land governance, and opposition to land expropriation in China
China's rapid urbanization has been fueled by dispossession and subsequent commodification of villagers' land. We use interviews and an original survey of land-losing villagers to examine factors that influence their opposition to land expropriation. We find that villagers are less opposed to land expropriation when local authorities reduce the gap between land-taking compensation paid to them and the land's market value, distribute compensation …
Anarchy, self-governance, and legal titling
Trust and deforestation: A cross-country comparison
Can community-based land adjudication and registration improve household land tenure security? Evidence from Afghanistan
Establishing Local Government in Fragile States: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Wealth-destroying states
Military societies: Self-governance and criminal justice in Indian country
We argue that criminal justice institutions must be accessible to citizens, legitimate and have capacity to enforce law. Such was the case with the military societies of the Plains Indians: a system of criminal justice that predated the time of European contact and which remained a significant source of law and order in Indian country until the Indian Wars concluded at the end of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, the federal government attempt…
Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons
Researchers interested in blockchains are increasingly attuned to questions of governance, including how blockchains relate to government, the ways blockchains are governed, and ways blockchains can improve prospects for successful self-governance. Our paper joins this research by exploring the implications of the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework to analyze governance of blockchains. Our novel contributions are making the case that blo…
When does the emergence of a stationary bandit lead to property insecurity
The economic theory of the state is often illustrated using examples in which the emergence of a stationary bandit-a ruler who is able to centralize military and fiscal capacity-improves property security. This article argues that the economic theory of the state also provides insight into the conditions when the emergence of a stationary bandit leads to property insecurity. In our reading of the economic theory of the state, the rise of a statio…
Does the sequence of land reform and political reform matter? Evidence from state-building in Afghanistan
Property insecurity is associated with terrorism, insurgency and economic underdevelopment. For this reason, land reform is often implemented alongside political reform in post-conflict settings. In contrast, this article argues that political reform should be sequenced prior to land reform during state-building. Evidence from Afghanistan shows how land redistribution, legal titling, decentralisation of state-owned land and provision of legal ser…
Complex externalities, pandemics, and public choice
Spectrum Sovereignty on Tribal Lands: Assessing the Digital Reservations Act
The current system for managing spectrum in the United States gives the federal government essentially all authority over electromagnetic spectrum management and governance on tribal lands. The Deploying the Internet by Guaranteeing Indian Tribes Autonomy over Licensing (DIGITAL) Reservations Act envisions a system of spectrum governance that affirms tribal self-determination in managing and licensing the natural resource called spectrum. Though …
Rebel victory and constitutional change
Consumers’ sovereignty and W. H. Hutt’s critique of the color bar
Institutional stickiness and Afghanistan’s unending revolution
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics
Research in comparative politics on informal institutions can be grouped into analysis of norms and values within government institutions and studies of self-governance in communities that are relatively isolated from states. Three recent books by Nadya Hajj, Shelby Grossman, and David Skarbek advance this research agenda by showing that self-governance can be significant even in contexts where the state is present, including refugee camps, marke…
From defunding to refunding police: Institutions and the persistence of policing budgets
Coercive capacity, land reform and political order in Afghanistan
This article compares four historical periods in Afghanistan to better understand whether land reform in the post-2001 context will improve prospects for political order. Its central finding is that political order can be established without land reform provided that the state is able to establish and maintain coercive capacity. However, the cost of establishing political order mainly through coercion is very low levels of economic development. W…
Public choice and national defense: Lessons for the Russian–Ukrainian war
Censorship and mental models
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Individualism and governance of the commons
Social Identity and Voting in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
The basis of social identity in Afghanistan is the concept of qawm. As qawm refers to an individual’s solidarity group, such as village, tribe, subtribe, or even ethnic group, it captures broad in-group/out-group distinctions. We analyze a survey experiment to explore how qawm affiliation affects individual perceptions of politicians running for a fictitious local election. Contrary to expectations derived from the literatures on Afghanistan and …
Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students
The Political Economy of the American Frontier
This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law and history. This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state …
Political Economy of the American Frontier
Social Identity and Voting in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
The basis of social identity in Afghanistan is the concept of qawm. As qawm refers to an individual’s solidarity group, such as village, tribe, subtribe, or even ethnic group, it captures broad in-group/out-group distinctions. We analyze a survey experiment to explore how qawm affiliation affects individual perceptions of politicians running for a fictitious local election. Contrary to expectations derived from the literatures on Afghanistan and …
Establishing Local Government in Fragile States: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Anarchy, self-governance, and legal titling
Can community-based land adjudication and registration improve household land tenure security? Evidence from Afghanistan
When does the emergence of a stationary bandit lead to property insecurity
The economic theory of the state is often illustrated using examples in which the emergence of a stationary bandit-a ruler who is able to centralize military and fiscal capacity-improves property security. This article argues that the economic theory of the state also provides insight into the conditions when the emergence of a stationary bandit leads to property insecurity. In our reading of the economic theory of the state, the rise of a statio…
Does the sequence of land reform and political reform matter? Evidence from state-building in Afghanistan
Property insecurity is associated with terrorism, insurgency and economic underdevelopment. For this reason, land reform is often implemented alongside political reform in post-conflict settings. In contrast, this article argues that political reform should be sequenced prior to land reform during state-building. Evidence from Afghanistan shows how land redistribution, legal titling, decentralisation of state-owned land and provision of legal ser…
Coercive capacity, land reform and political order in Afghanistan
This article compares four historical periods in Afghanistan to better understand whether land reform in the post-2001 context will improve prospects for political order. Its central finding is that political order can be established without land reform provided that the state is able to establish and maintain coercive capacity. However, the cost of establishing political order mainly through coercion is very low levels of economic development. W…
Can the Design of Electoral Institutions Improve Perceptions of Democracy in Fragile States? Evidence from Afghanistan
Liberal peace-building efforts in fragile states often suffer from low levels of public support for democracy. This article explores whether changes in the design of electoral institutions improves perceptions of democracy in states seeking to transition from conflict to a democratic order. We do so by embedding a vignette experiment in a nationally representative survey of households in Afghanistan. Our experiment varies the method of selecting …
Trust and deforestation: A cross-country comparison
Individualism and governance of the commons
Wealth-destroying states
Sugarcoating the bitter pill: Compensation, land governance, and opposition to land expropriation in China
China's rapid urbanization has been fueled by dispossession and subsequent commodification of villagers' land. We use interviews and an original survey of land-losing villagers to examine factors that influence their opposition to land expropriation. We find that villagers are less opposed to land expropriation when local authorities reduce the gap between land-taking compensation paid to them and the land's market value, distribute compensation …
Toward a Political Economy of the Commons: Simple Rules for Sustainability
Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and…
Pandemics, economic freedom, and institutional trade-offs
Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons
Researchers interested in blockchains are increasingly attuned to questions of governance, including how blockchains relate to government, the ways blockchains are governed, and ways blockchains can improve prospects for successful self-governance. Our paper joins this research by exploring the implications of the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework to analyze governance of blockchains. Our novel contributions are making the case that blo…
The predatory state and coercive assimilation: The case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Spectrum Sovereignty on Tribal Lands: Assessing the Digital Reservations Act
The current system for managing spectrum in the United States gives the federal government essentially all authority over electromagnetic spectrum management and governance on tribal lands. The Deploying the Internet by Guaranteeing Indian Tribes Autonomy over Licensing (DIGITAL) Reservations Act envisions a system of spectrum governance that affirms tribal self-determination in managing and licensing the natural resource called spectrum. Though …
From defunding to refunding police: Institutions and the persistence of policing budgets
Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery
Mehrdad Vahabi, Destructive coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: A new reading of contemporary Iran. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 478 pages. USD 149.99 (hardback)
Blockchains for emergency and crisis management
Public managers and administrators confront the increasing scale and prevalence of crises. Despite some deployments, blockchain applications by governments for emergency management and response management have only begun to scratch the surface. To facilitate greater awareness of the promises and challenges of blockchain applications to the public sector, we consider the ways in which distributed ledger technologies can improve emergency and crisi…
Polycentric systems for spectrum management: The case of Indigenous and tribal spectrum sovereignty
Political science (35 works) · Law (31 works) · Economics (27 works) · Law (24 works) · Politics (24 works) · Political economy (18 works) · Public finance (13 works) · Corporate governance (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (9 works)