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Rules Britannia: Board Games, Britain, and the World, c. 1759-1860

Focusing on Georgian and Victorian Britain, this thesis examines didactic boardgames as cultural artefacts exploring the bounds of moral sympathy and responsibility in an ostensibly Anglocentric world. It refutes previous conclusions that exposure to imperial ideology via these games in childhood necessarily led to an imperialist identity in adulthood and thence to imperialist activity later in the nineteenth century, highlighting instead how games encouraged players to question the appropriateness of affiliating oneself with the British imperial project by accounting for circumstantial differences at home and abroad. It defies a hypodermic model of communication which posits players as passive and highly susceptible to manipulation by demonstrating instances of player modifications to rules and/or content that, in changing the values and assumptions of the original game, suggest what contemporaries found to be objectionable or missing in standard gameplay. It examines this dialectic between game and player across four thematic categories: teleological games, geographical games, ethnographic games, and zoological games

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volum

Political parties and the market. Towards a Comparable Assessment of Market Liberalism

The dissertation verifies an old and often repeated pledge of Adam Smith that market liberalism increases the wealth of its citizens in the long-run and contrast it with the most salient counterclaim that citizens pay for wealth with inequality. Starting with a conceptual discussion of what market liberalism is, the dissertation guides through its measurement and discusses issues of comparability. Subsequently, the degree of market liberalism of governments within democracies are related to most-likely policies such as deregulation and less redistribution via decreased taxes and lower welfare spending. Finally, policies are linked to performance using structural equations and long-time frames. It turns out that market liberal governments have a negative short-term effect on wealth and a positive long-term effect in comparison to more moderate governments. However, the effect on wealth is very marginal whereas inequality is substantially increased in the short- as well as in the long-run