Comparative politics / Power & institutions
Protection, Inc.: The Price of Power
A captain offers safety.
Who keeps the power?
A captain offers protection. Which terms survive the captain? Bargain for your community, confront a replacement leader, and compare the same arrangement under different payment rules and enforcement. Investigate what continuing records, collectors, and guard command can establish—and what payment alone cannot tell you about legitimacy. Created by Yoav Duman.
Solo play: estimate 45–55 minutes. Allow another 10 minutes for discussion.
Created by Yoav Duman · Edition 2026-10-10.1
Negotiate. Then test what lasts.
Represent Riverside through two protection bargains. Keep your original answer, then examine the same arrangement with a different payment rule or officials who fail to enforce CHECK.
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For instructors
Teach institutional continuity, leadership change, authority rules, extraction, and legitimacy. The guide maps each bargain to its consequences, includes two worked arrangements and a short debrief, and explains how to assess the report.
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Edition 2026-10-10.1. Solo work: estimate 45–55 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. For a 50-minute class, assign the briefing and first season beforehand. Browser autosave is specific to this device and website; download a progress backup to move work. PDF report creates a readable submission file. The controlled leadership comparison keeps membership, bridge access, demand and approvals fixed; it does not renegotiate the bargain. Completion checks do not grade reasoning.