National Institute for Public Policy

The Growth Trap: Recruitment Windfalls and Bottom-Up Transformation in Militant Organizations

Recruitment windfalls can strengthen militant organizations while redirecting their strategy and tactics. This article develops the growth trap mechanism, a grassroots driven process in which incomplete socialization and delegation embed new recruits’ preferences into organizatio...

Tusi’s Nasirean Ethics vs. Soroush’s Ethics of Gods: An Assessment from a Critical Rationalist Perspective

Abstract While first-order ethical norms and prescriptions appear to be universal, the same is not true for second-order ethics and moral philosophies. The contrast between various models of second-order ethics can be usefully explored through a comparative assessment of the ethi...