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Do Ask And Do Tell: Rethinking The Lawyer’S Duty To Warn In Domestic Violence Cases, Sarah M. Buel

SARAH M BUEL

Empirical data document that while domestic violence victims face high risk of recurring abuse, batterers' lawyers may be privy to information that could avert further harm. Attorneys owe a duty of confidentiality to their clients that can be breached only in extraordinary circumstances, such as when counsel learns her client plans to commit a crime. To resolve the tension between client confidentiality and victim safety, this Article argues that, in the context of domestic violence cases, lawyers have an affirmative duty to (1) screen battering clients who have indicated a likelihood of harming others, (2) attempt to dissuade them from …

Thinking Outside The Quality Box: The Impact Of Candidate Motivations On Election Outcomes, Doug D. Roscoe, Shannon Jenkins, John Frendreis, Alan Gitelson

Shannon Jenkins

Explanations for election outcomes have commonly included incumbency and candidate quality. While these explanations have been successful, they do not wholly explain who wins or loses. To move beyond the concepts of incumbency and quality, a typology of candidates is developed based on their motivations for running. Hierarchical cluster analysis is employed to examine open-ended responses from state legislative candidates in nine states. The resulting typologies are found to be connected to influences on candidate emergence and perceptions of factors that influenced the election outcome. They also prove to be statistically significant predictors of election victory even when controlling for …

Market Structure And Communicable Diseases, Stéphane Mechoulan

Stéphane Mechoulan

Communicable diseases pose a formidable challenge for public policy. Using numerical simulations, we show under which scenarios a monopolist’s price and prevalence paths converge to a non-zero steady state. In contrast, a planner typically eradicates the disease. If eradication is impossible, the planner subsidizes treatments as long as the prevalence can be controlled. Drug resistance exacerbates the welfare difference between monopoly and first best outcomes. Nevertheless, because the negative externalities from resistance compete with the positive externalities of treatment, a mixed competition/ monopoly regime may perform better than competition alone. This result has important implications for the design of many …

Weighty Speech: Addressing Body Size In The Classroom, Yofi Tirosh

Yofi Tirosh

The politics of body size has been the topic of intriguing feminist work. Although in my view this issue is still undertheorized, I have long sought for a way to bring what does exist in the literature into my academic activities. The opportunity arose when, as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 2001, I taught an undergraduate mini-course in the women's studies program, which I named Weight as a Cultural Question.

This essay discusses two pedagogical challenges I faced while teaching a class. Both questions deal with the extent to which it is productive to talk about …

Bir Dış Politika Aracı Olarak Dış Yardım: Japonya Örneği (Foreign Aid As A Foreign Policy Tool: The Case Of Japan), Murat Yesiltas, Ali Balcı

Murat Yesiltas

This article attempts to explain the relationship between foreign policy and foreign aid. The question of how Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme is related to Japan's foreign policy will be explored. The findings suggest that foreign aid has been used to promote Japan's national interests and national security since the 1950's. Although Japan has used ODA in order to prevent humanitarian violation and promote democracy, especially since the 1990's, the humanitarian aspect of ODA has remained secondary to concerns about national interests. Japanese aid programs to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) nations, Africa, China and the Kurile Islands …

Neşet Toku, İlm-I Umran:İbn Haldun’Da Toplum Bilimsel Düşünce, Murat Yesiltas

Murat Yesiltas

Sosyal bilimlerde materyalizm ve idealizm tartışması, sosyal dünyayı oluşturan materyal ve düşünsel unsurlardan hangisinin aslî olduğuna ilişkin ontolojik bir tartışma üzerine kuruludur. Materyalizm, toplumun temelini oluşturan aslî unsurun “doğa” ve “materyal unsurlar” olduğunu öne sürerken, düşünsel unsurları her zaman ikinci plana itmiştir. Sözkonusu bakış açısı iki önemli soruyu zorunlu olarak gündeme getirmektedir.

Iran 2005: İç Ve Dış Politika, Murat Yesiltas

Murat Yesiltas

Ülkemizin de çok önemli bir parçasını oluşturduğu Ortadoğu konusunda araştırma yapan akademik çevreden olan ya da olmayan herkes için değerli bir kaynak olma amacı taşıyan Ortadoğu Yıllığı “Çekirdek Ortadoğu” diye bilinen, Türkiye, İran ve Mısır ile bunların arasında kalan Arap Yarımadası’nda yer alan ülkelerdeki bir yıllık gelişmelere ışık tutmaktadır. Bölgenin Filistin dâhil olmak üzere 16 ülkesinin incelendiği” Ortadoğu Yıllığı 2005” söz konusu ülkelerin dış ve iç politikalarında yaşanan ilgili yıla ait gelişmeleri ele alan, yorumdan çok bilgi ağırlıklı yazılardan oluşmaktadır. Kitabın son bölümünde ayrıca, Ortadoğu’nun siyasi, ekonomik ve sosyal yapısına ilişkin, ilgili yıldan bağımsız makaleler yer almaktadır. Kitap, özellikle Ortadoğu …

The Recognition Of Same-Sex Relationships: Comparative Institutional Analysis, Contested Social Goals, And Strategic Institutional Choice, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The emerging field of comparative institutional analysis (CIA) has much to offer public policy analysts. However, the failure of CIA to address the dynamic process through which social goals are articulated limits the scope of its application to the largely prescriptive pronouncements of legal scholars. By examining the movement for equal recognition of same-sex relationships, this Essay builds on the basic observations of CIA and introduces a new dimension, namely the dynamic process through which social goals are articulated and social change is pursued. The acknowledgment that the production of social goals involves institutional behavior, as well as multiple sites …

Confronting Conventional Thinking: The Heuristics Problem In Feminist Legal Theory, Nancy Levit

Nancy Levit

The thesis of The Heuristics Problem is that the societal problems about which identity theorists are most concerned often spring from and are reinforced by thinking riddled with heuristic errors. This article first investigates the ways heuristic errors influence popular perceptions of feminist issues. Feminists and critical race theorists have explored the cognitive bias of stereotyping, but have not examined the ways probabilistic errors can have gendered consequences. Second, The Heuristics Problem traces some of the ways cognitive errors have influenced the development of laws relating to gender issues. It explores instances in judicial decisions in which courts commit heuristic …

Protecting The Public Trust And Human Rights In The Great Lakes, Melissa K. Scanlan

Melissa K. Scanlan

No abstract provided.

El Problema Del Socialismo, Manuel Ayau

Manuel Ayau (1925-2010)

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Dewey: The First Ghost-Buster?, Leslie Marsh

Leslie Marsh

Ghost-busting, or less colloquially, anti-Cartesianism or non-representationalism, is a loose and internally fluid coalition (philosophical and empirical) comprising Dynamical, Embodied, Extended, Distributed, and Situated (DEEDS) theories of cognition. Gilbert Ryle – DEEDS’ anglophonic masthead [1] – supposedly exorcised the Cartesian propensity to postulate mind as an apparition-like entity somehow situated in the body. Ryle’s behaviouristic recommendation was, that just as we don’t see the wind blowing but only see the trees waving, so too should we conceive intelligence as manifest though action. The Cartesian ghost of old has mutated, taking the form of the ‘Machine in the Machine’, the brain …

Managing The Value Of Ecclesiastic And Religious Heritage. The Experience Of Some Italian Dioceses, Mara Del Baldo

mara del baldo

No abstract provided.

How Do Archaeologists Compare Early States? Book Review Essay On Bruce Trigger And Adam T. Smith, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Review Of: Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism And The Self-Organizing Landscape , By Roderick J. Mcintosh, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Foreward: Aztec Figurine Studies, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

New World States And Empires: Politics, Religion, And Urbanism, Michael E. Smith, Katherina J. Schreiber

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

La Fundación De Las Ciudades En El Mundo Antiguo: Revisión De Conceptos, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

La Fundación De Los Capitales De Las Ciudades-Estado Aztecas: La Recreación Ideológico De Tollan, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Safeguards In A World Of Ambient Intelligence, Ioannis Maghiros, Yves Punie, Sabine Delaitre, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth, Anna Moscibroda, Wim Schreurs, Michael Friedewald, Ralf Lindner, David Wright, Elena Vildjiounaite, Petteri Alahuhta

Michael Friedewald

Intelligent devices embedded everywhere and inter-connected with always-on capability will enable new services and applications to emerge but also greatly magnify the risk of abuse of the exchanged data. This article will present the need to develop safeguards in order to protect valuable assets if society at large is to benefit from AmI. Since the challenge lies in identifying safeguards for threats and vulnerabilities that are yet to be defined, the dark scenarios developed by the SWAMI project (Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence) , will be presented as a tool to help illustrate risks that need to be …

Do Public Funding Programs Enhance Electoral Competition?, Kenneth R. Mayer, Timothy Werner, Amanda Williams

Kenneth R Mayer

Finds that public election funding -- "clean elections" -- increases electoral competition in state legislative elections.

Uma Fórmula De Softpower, Mendo Castro Henriques

Mendo Castro Henriques

Foi Joseph Nye quem sistematizou a distinção entre soft e hard power como modo de chamar a atenção que há sempre duas formas de uma entidade – Estado, organização, pessoa – induzir procedimentos noutra entidade; atractivos e ameaças, "o pau e a cenoura".

The Dda A Necessary, But Not Sufficient Safeguard For People With Progressive Conditions In The Workplace? The Experiences Of Younger People With Parkinson’S Disease., Maggie Lawrence, Banks Pauline

Dr. Maggie Lawrence

No abstract provided.

Landscapes & Memories, Cornelius Holtorf, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

No abstract provided.

Irreversibility And Interest Rates, Giuseppe Travaglini

Giuseppe Travaglini Prof.

The literature on irreversible investment fails in exploring the relationship between the present value of alternative strategies and the appropriate risk-adjusted interest rates. We will attempt to fill this gap showing that to avoid arbitrage opportunities the real option's rate must be higher than the rate of the immediate strategy. Further, we explain how irreversibility influences the risk-return combination of competing strategies acting as a pure factor of risk.

Contratação E Investimento Em Capacidade De Geração Na Indústria De Energia Elétrica: Uma Abordagem Baseada Na Teoria De Jogos, Gladstone B. Alves

Gladstone B. Alves

No abstract provided.

Partidos Y Ciudadanos Vs. Caciques Y Clientes: Un Diagnóstico De La Situación Y Algunas Propuestas Para Superarla En Ecuador, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

La Democratización De Los Partidos Políticos: Entre La Ilusión Y El Desencanto, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

Asean And Trafficking In Persons: Using Data As A Tool To Combat Trafficking In Persons, Fiona M. David Ms

Fiona David

ASEAN member countries are always looking for ways to improve their response to trafficking in persons. However, these efforts are being held back by a lack of relevant, reliable data on trafficking. Recognizing this problem, in 2005, the ASEAN member countries commissioned IOM to conduct a pilot research project to identify “best practice” in data collection on trafficking, and to prepare a situation report on data collection by government agencies in four ASEAN member countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand). This report presents the findings of that research.

Asean Responses To Trafficking In Persons, Fiona M. David Ms

Fiona David

This paper examines the criminal justice responses to trafficking in places in each of the 10 ASEAN Member Countries.