political consensus and the problem of accountability

... Gerard Braunthal of the University of Massachusetts, and Peter Euben of the University of California at Santa Cruz all read parts of the work and offered advice John Fairleigh of the Queen's University ... appreciation of the limits of constitutionalism as a basis for political community Hence questions of whether and when the constitution governs are also questions of the limits (and perhaps of the different ... life of the nation; the President must define and explain to Congress and the people the nature of this threat; the perception of the emergency, the judgment that the life of the nation is truly...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... the formula of the Boussinet, then the assumption about the random force will lead, in particular, to the results of the work The physical reason of the assumption about the uncorrelativity of ... uncorrelativity of the random force is the shortness of its time of the correlation as compared with the time of the relaxation of the velocity for the large Brownian particles (large frequency of the collisions) ... the results of the work (perhaps he means to the satisfying results?) The physical reason of the assumption about the uncorrelativity of the random force, is the shortness of time of its correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... left blank Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law The spread of democracy to a majority of the world’s states and the legitimization of the use of force by multilateral ... Uses of military forces under the auspices of the UN and NATO page 24 1.2 Uses of force and forms of authorization and responsibility: the framework for analysis 29 1.3 The nine states and their ... rights of passage.” These agreements were to have the advantage of defining, from the point of view of member states, the limits of their obligation to provide such assistance, and, from the point of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... microfinance’s expansion into the provision of public goods It focuses on the problem of public goods and collective action and refers to the specific example of water and sanitation The microfinancing ... Denmark, Australia and the Netherlands The predicted full cost of the various latrine options (and the size of the loans) was between 40 and 160 euros, though households complained that the costs were ... context of neoliberal restructuring and the rise of the vision of fragmented entrepreneurial development Section discusses the characteristics of the water and sanitation sector and examines the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... avant-garde artworks in the domain of the aesthetic Since the era of Duchamp’s Fountain, avant-garde artworks have developed to the point of once again challenging the aesthetic theory of art Counterexamples ... (S) and proposes the third solution’ as a way to incorporate avant-garde artworks into the aesthetic theory of art The third solution invokes the idea of non-perceptual aesthetic properties and ... works thus removing the majority of counterexamples to the aesthetic theory of art However, the nature of avant-garde art means that since the era of Duchamp’s readymade artworks, the boundaries have...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... particular type of social group Thus the problem of political obligation meets the theory of social groups The Membership Problem Are there political obligations? Given the preceding definition of such ... State of a certain kind) ought to obey the laws and directives of the of cials of that State? This, in broad terms, is the problem of political obligation, which concerns whether and when there ... coalition of mother and son within the family of father, mother, and son One would suppose, however, that the larger the group, the more likely its inclusion of smaller groups within it.35 Finally, and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:32

... sending copies to the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of OMB, the Deputy Director for Management of OMB, and the Acting Controller of OMB’s Office of Federal Financial ... appendix This appendix includes the status of the 56 remaining open recommendations, according to the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as ... to begin with the fiscal year 2004 CFS, the Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, in coordination with the Controller of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... 02-20 The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, in coordination with the Controller of OMB, to develop and implement a process to ensure that the Statement of Changes ... exist between what the agency auditor reported and the representations made by the agency, including the resolution of such discrepancies Treasury and OMB revised their policies and procedures in ... Specifically, these policies and procedures should require an analysis and aggregation of federal agencies’ summary of unadjusted misstatements to determine the completeness of the summaries and to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Value Problems problem Therefore, in the following we just consider the direct scattering problem for a mixture of a crack Γ and a bounded domain D, and the corresponding inverse scattering problem ... see 13–17 and the reference therein A few authors have applied such method to study the scattering problem with mixture of cracks and obstacles In the following, we will use the method of boundary ... establish uniqueness to the problem and reformulate the problem as a boundary integral system by using single- and double-layer potentials The existence and uniqueness of a solution to the corresponding...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... evaluate the qualities of the three schemes (SISO, AF, and NLOS) and to select the best of them Generalization to the N-relay case S and destination D is g0 , the one between source S and relay ... Indeed, the adaptive NAF protocol is then the result of the selection of the best transmission scheme between the SISO scheme, the NAF schemes using only one relay, and the NLOS schemes using either ... comparison of the performance of the noncooperative case, the NAF protocol, and the adaptive NAF for bits pcu Figure 8: 1-relay scheme: comparison of the performance of the noncooperative case, the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 15:21

... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Securities ... discussion of the political underpinnings of the financial crisis has centered on the political interests of the financial sector, we stress the Three I’s: ideology, institutions, and interests The ... leveraged (the ratio of the loan to the true value of the asset is very high) But the belief that the price of the bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:44

... ideological role of the media in the presentation of the policies favoring the economic, financial and political elites A highly recommended read for its analyses of the crises and of the neo-liberal ... through the Bretton Woods agreements, and institutions like the World Bank, the IMF and the United The crisis and the role of the media Nations were set up to regulate the global economy under the ... such ties is the acquisition by the The crisis and the role of the media 21 Irish media of a direct financial interest in the sustenance of the housing bubble through the purchase of property websites...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 05:38

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:34

... changed since the end of 1970s The failure of the planned economy and the goal of facilitating the economic development of the country made China shift to the market economy and adopt the “Open-up” ... to the building of democracy, improvement of human rights, rule of law and facilitation of political and social change in China This thesis approached these questions from the perspective of the ... submerged in the 1950s and 1960s, and the number and diversity of these organisations have grown rapidly since the 1990s The re-emergence of NGOs raises the questions whether, and to what extent,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:50

... book-length projects, the three volumes of The History of Sexuality The first volume was first published in 1976 The second and third volumes, subtitled The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self respectively, ... discovering and exposing it, the fascination of seeing it and telling it, of captivating and capturing others by it the specific pleasure of the true discourse on pleasure (71) The proliferation of ... equivalents to the author function, according to Foucault, are the the idea of the work” and the notion of writing (écriture)” (11) Without referring to the author, the idea of the “work” inevitably...

Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 12:27

... from the time of Leviathan to that of The Wealth of Nations consisted of the watering down of Hobbes's problem of order by arguing that certain human motivations kept others under control and ... view of embeddedness alters our theoretical and empirical approach to the study of economic behavior I first narrow the focus to the question of trust and malfeasance in economic life and then ... industrial and organizational sociology to be important within firms The distinction between the "formal" and the "informal" organization of the firm is one of the oldest in the literature, and it...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 10:50

... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character of the Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02