"One key lesson is that complex authoritarian systems such as China are less nimble than they seem at first sight," writes Wallace, associate professor of government in the College of Arts & Sciences. "Numeric targets allow the central leadership to influence their underlings — but at the expense of giving them tunnel vision and the incentive to fudge the figures when they can."
Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse
An example of an invariant measure for a simplified mathematical model of atmospheric convection known as the Lorenz-63 system, using the researchers’ method of time-delayed snapshots.