From James Monroe and the Quing Dynasty to George W
... Limongi, 1993:56). Olson (1982) argues that democracies are prone to capture from special interest groups. This might lead to policies that are incoherent with the interests of the broader populace. Economic growth might be sacrificed for the protection of specific business sectors or pivotal voting ...
... Limongi, 1993:56). Olson (1982) argues that democracies are prone to capture from special interest groups. This might lead to policies that are incoherent with the interests of the broader populace. Economic growth might be sacrificed for the protection of specific business sectors or pivotal voting ...
How to Choose a Constitutional Theory
... the one hand and normative or prescriptive theories on the other. 01 Few, if any, constitutional theories are purely normative." Most, if not all, claim to fit or explain what they characterize as the most fundamental features of the constitutional order. 2 But few constitutional theories are purely ...
... the one hand and normative or prescriptive theories on the other. 01 Few, if any, constitutional theories are purely normative." Most, if not all, claim to fit or explain what they characterize as the most fundamental features of the constitutional order. 2 But few constitutional theories are purely ...
[LSE COPY]
... Papers at: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/wps.htm and the Social Sciences Research Network electronic library at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2150100. © Michael A. Wilkinson. Users may download and/or print one copy to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. Users may not enga ...
... Papers at: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/wps.htm and the Social Sciences Research Network electronic library at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2150100. © Michael A. Wilkinson. Users may download and/or print one copy to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. Users may not enga ...
The Concept of Scale and the Human Dimensions of Global Change
... Morgan (1894) was among the early scholars to point out that ‘at various grades of organization, material configurations display new and unexpected phenomena and that these include the most striking features of adaptive machinery’ (cited in Mayr, 1982, p. 63). ...
... Morgan (1894) was among the early scholars to point out that ‘at various grades of organization, material configurations display new and unexpected phenomena and that these include the most striking features of adaptive machinery’ (cited in Mayr, 1982, p. 63). ...
July 1, 2007 14:59 WSPC/169
... In each timestep during a simulation, every citizen agent will asynchronously take an action of either discussing politics, accessing the media, or doing something unrelated to obtaining voter preferences from political context. It will check what its favorite news medium is saying before having a d ...
... In each timestep during a simulation, every citizen agent will asynchronously take an action of either discussing politics, accessing the media, or doing something unrelated to obtaining voter preferences from political context. It will check what its favorite news medium is saying before having a d ...
Democracy unto the Earth, Liberty unto Mankind?
... a separation of powers and the “protection of basic liberties of speech, assembly, religion and property”.2 It is as much liberally defined as it is democratic, perhaps even more so. Plattner puts it even more succinctly: “The word “liberal” in the phrase liberal democracy refers not to the matter o ...
... a separation of powers and the “protection of basic liberties of speech, assembly, religion and property”.2 It is as much liberally defined as it is democratic, perhaps even more so. Plattner puts it even more succinctly: “The word “liberal” in the phrase liberal democracy refers not to the matter o ...
Private versus Public Enterprise
... • Arguments used to favour public enterprises encompass several elements of transactions costs • Agency costs may favour SOEs when non-commercial objectives are very important and when the agency loss to management is small • Commitment costs or political uncertainty favour SOEs where there is a con ...
... • Arguments used to favour public enterprises encompass several elements of transactions costs • Agency costs may favour SOEs when non-commercial objectives are very important and when the agency loss to management is small • Commitment costs or political uncertainty favour SOEs where there is a con ...
2010 by Prof. T. J. Agiobenebo
... centuries (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_economic_thought). ...
... centuries (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_economic_thought). ...
The Play of International Practices
... The declaration of a practice turn in IR has already led to substantial critique. Most directly Erik Ringmar (2014) has doubted the benefits of such a turn. As Ringmar (2014: 2) critically notes “practices of one kind or another are what scholars of international relations always have studied”. To a ...
... The declaration of a practice turn in IR has already led to substantial critique. Most directly Erik Ringmar (2014) has doubted the benefits of such a turn. As Ringmar (2014: 2) critically notes “practices of one kind or another are what scholars of international relations always have studied”. To a ...
1 Democratization and international relations
... behavior as the dependent variable. In addition, where my theory diverges from this past work is in my emphasis that internal penetration is often a choice by elites. I argue that domestic actors allow outside influence for strategic reasons that have little to do with foreign policy cooperation. Wit ...
... behavior as the dependent variable. In addition, where my theory diverges from this past work is in my emphasis that internal penetration is often a choice by elites. I argue that domestic actors allow outside influence for strategic reasons that have little to do with foreign policy cooperation. Wit ...
Environmental Protection and Free Trade: Direct and Indirect Competition for Political Influence by
... A primary feature of our model is to allow two opposing interest groups, the Environmentalists and the Industrialists, to compete both directly and indirectly for influence over government policy. By direct competition we mean that interest groups provide political contributions to an incumbent gov ...
... A primary feature of our model is to allow two opposing interest groups, the Environmentalists and the Industrialists, to compete both directly and indirectly for influence over government policy. By direct competition we mean that interest groups provide political contributions to an incumbent gov ...
Kenneth Minogue: Politics - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... Shakespeare wrote that "all the world is a stage." The question is: Who gets to direct the play and who writes the script? In other words: “Who’s in charge here?” Politics gives a voice to all individuals, groups, and interests within a civil society. But a civil society is a rare achievement. More ...
... Shakespeare wrote that "all the world is a stage." The question is: Who gets to direct the play and who writes the script? In other words: “Who’s in charge here?” Politics gives a voice to all individuals, groups, and interests within a civil society. But a civil society is a rare achievement. More ...
The Rule of Reasons. Three Models of Deliberative Democracy
... implies the recognition that even reasonable persons may disagree about the nature of the good without thereby reducing ethical convictions (as in Nagel's approach) to ``mere beliefs''; one can still consider them as true, though accept that this conviction by itself is insufficient to present one's ...
... implies the recognition that even reasonable persons may disagree about the nature of the good without thereby reducing ethical convictions (as in Nagel's approach) to ``mere beliefs''; one can still consider them as true, though accept that this conviction by itself is insufficient to present one's ...
The Meaning of Governance Presented By Md. Mizanur
... (cultural) and rational (calculus) approach can be found. From an institutional perspective, governance is about affecting ‘the framework within which citizens and officials act and politics occurs, and which shape the identities and institution of civil society’. Governance is the capacity of g ...
... (cultural) and rational (calculus) approach can be found. From an institutional perspective, governance is about affecting ‘the framework within which citizens and officials act and politics occurs, and which shape the identities and institution of civil society’. Governance is the capacity of g ...
ARTICLE National Security Interest Convergence
... responding to both party forces and constituents—in casting votes that give the Exercise of Plenary Power, 14 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 389, 391–92 (2005) (defining otherness as based on race, national origin, ethnicity, and other factors apart from citizenship); David Cole, Enemy Aliens, 54 ST ...
... responding to both party forces and constituents—in casting votes that give the Exercise of Plenary Power, 14 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 389, 391–92 (2005) (defining otherness as based on race, national origin, ethnicity, and other factors apart from citizenship); David Cole, Enemy Aliens, 54 ST ...
Framework - MGW - 2011 - Open Evidence Archive
... The mistake is in thinking that agreement marks the end of contest-that consensus kills debate. But this is true only if the agreement is perfect-if there is nothing at all left to question or contest. In most cases, however, our agreements are highly imperfect. We agree on some matters but not on o ...
... The mistake is in thinking that agreement marks the end of contest-that consensus kills debate. But this is true only if the agreement is perfect-if there is nothing at all left to question or contest. In most cases, however, our agreements are highly imperfect. We agree on some matters but not on o ...
POLI 209- Analyzing Public Opinion
... The process a) Communication- children may be more likely to absorb parents’ partisanship because the parents are likely to most clearly communicate that identification with their children. When issue stances are clear, children seem to pick them up as readily as partisanship. The problem is those s ...
... The process a) Communication- children may be more likely to absorb parents’ partisanship because the parents are likely to most clearly communicate that identification with their children. When issue stances are clear, children seem to pick them up as readily as partisanship. The problem is those s ...
Sears, David O., C. Van Laar, M. Carillo, and R. Kosterman. 1997.
... Students will be introduced to the major questions that have occupied scholars in the field through weekly readings that will mix classic writings with cutting edge research. It is impossible to cover every topic that falls under the umbrella of “political behavior,” but we will touch on as many res ...
... Students will be introduced to the major questions that have occupied scholars in the field through weekly readings that will mix classic writings with cutting edge research. It is impossible to cover every topic that falls under the umbrella of “political behavior,” but we will touch on as many res ...
Individual Liberty and Political Institutions
... were thought to be not concerned at all with the issue of how government should be organized, just as the democratic ideal would surely be interpreted in a too narrow sense if it were thought to entirely neglect the issue of what limits to put on the powers of government. In fact, taking my lead fro ...
... were thought to be not concerned at all with the issue of how government should be organized, just as the democratic ideal would surely be interpreted in a too narrow sense if it were thought to entirely neglect the issue of what limits to put on the powers of government. In fact, taking my lead fro ...
How Frequent is Organizational Political Behavior?
... (1994) included items such as “I have learned how things really work on the inside of this organization” and “I know who the most influential people are in my organization” (Ferris et al., 2002 p221). The results of the Chao et al study (1994) showed a positive correlation between politics and job s ...
... (1994) included items such as “I have learned how things really work on the inside of this organization” and “I know who the most influential people are in my organization” (Ferris et al., 2002 p221). The results of the Chao et al study (1994) showed a positive correlation between politics and job s ...
Public Reason and Public Choice:
... each has her own, often different, reasons to endorse α.3 Both convergence and consensus public constructivism are versions of collaborative reasoning. At least as I have depicted them, both hold (i) that there is a deliberation-independent correct answer (what the public constructivist function wou ...
... each has her own, often different, reasons to endorse α.3 Both convergence and consensus public constructivism are versions of collaborative reasoning. At least as I have depicted them, both hold (i) that there is a deliberation-independent correct answer (what the public constructivist function wou ...
Conditions for Athenian Democracy
... with, in the beginning the Athenians had only themselves and their own lived experience. Because he asked questions so similar to those posed by the editors of this collection, Aristotle's analysis of democracy in the Politics offers a useful starting point for thinking about the conditions that pro ...
... with, in the beginning the Athenians had only themselves and their own lived experience. Because he asked questions so similar to those posed by the editors of this collection, Aristotle's analysis of democracy in the Politics offers a useful starting point for thinking about the conditions that pro ...
Transcendental vs Comparative Approaches to Justice
... Mill, Arrow, and his own thoughts as set out in The Idea of Justice correspond to the comparative, “alternative” tradition (2009, p. xvi). In this paper we claim that a comparative approach cannot exist by itself, without a transcendental dimension. In other words, we will attempt to demonstrate, on ...
... Mill, Arrow, and his own thoughts as set out in The Idea of Justice correspond to the comparative, “alternative” tradition (2009, p. xvi). In this paper we claim that a comparative approach cannot exist by itself, without a transcendental dimension. In other words, we will attempt to demonstrate, on ...
Political Efficacy, Voting Behavior and Partisanship among
... The researchers are going to explain and present the most important theories that explained efficacy, voting behavior, and partisanship as well. The basic premise of efficacy theory is that people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions are the most important ...
... The researchers are going to explain and present the most important theories that explained efficacy, voting behavior, and partisanship as well. The basic premise of efficacy theory is that people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions are the most important ...
www.ssoar.info Efficiency in the multinational federal republic
... offers services. Despite that it is true that states spend on social security and assistance for those who would otherwise be condemned to live in conditions below what we find acceptable, this is still a very small part of government spending compared to travel and communication infrastructures or ...
... offers services. Despite that it is true that states spend on social security and assistance for those who would otherwise be condemned to live in conditions below what we find acceptable, this is still a very small part of government spending compared to travel and communication infrastructures or ...