VOLUME 8 • 2009
THE DEFINITION OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE
ABSTRACT. Blackwell and Cunningham write that pretrial incarceration is the most punitive form of procedural punishment imposed by the lower courts. Ashworth and Zedner remark that some longstanding assumptions about the role and the place of the criminal trial and, it follows, the criminal law are ..
NEW DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING THE SHAPE OF THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
ABSTRACT. Niemi and Kola maintain that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU is not the most efficient means of addressing an increasing number of policy objectives. Koning says that the EU simply harmonized and integrated the existing farm policies of its member countries. Kryn states that..
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS
ABSTRACT. On Nanto et al.’s reading, Brazil entered the financial crisis from a position of macroeconomic and fiscal strength. Blundell-Wignall et al. claim that the current financial crisis is caused at two levels: by global macro policies affecting liquidity and by a very poor regulatory framework..
THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBALIZATION
ABSTRACT. Moshirian analyses some of the underlying global financial forces and the process by which the international institutions have evolved and their present contributions to global financial issues in the 21st century. Koujianou Goldberg and Pavcnik discuss recent empirical research on how glo..
INTERNAL AUDIT EFFECTIVENESS, GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS, AND FINANCIAL REPORTING RELIABILITY
ABSTRACT. Selim et al. write that changes to the definition of internal auditing have increased the scope of internal audit by explicitly including consulting activities. Arena and Azzone attempt to understand the organizational drivers of internal audit effectiveness in the light of recent changes ..
POSTCOMMUNIST ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE TRANSITIONAL RECESSION IN COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE
ABSTRACT. Stan remarks that transitional justice in post-communist Romania has made little progress since the Council for the Study of Securitate Archives was set up in early 2000. Bodenstein et al. present new measures of foreign economic openness in the transition countries that allow them to dist..
EXCESSIVE RISK TAKING AND LOW INTEREST MONETARY POLICY DECISIONS
ABSTRACT. Nanto et al. say that the origins of the financial crisis point toward three developments that increased risk in financial markets. te Velde asserts that the global financial crisis is already causing a considerable slowdown in most developed countries. Taylor shows that monetary excesses ..
THE TRANSFORMATION OF STATE SOCIALISM AND THE ELECTORAL SUCCESS OF COMMUNIST SUCCESSOR PARTIES IN POST-1990
ABSTRACT. Kuzio discusses the fate of successor Communist parties within the parameters of previous regime type, political opposition in the Communist era and the nationality question. Bojkov analyses the process of EU enlargement with reference to the progress that Bulgaria and Romania have made wi..
SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, CRIMINAL LIABILITY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEGAL SANCTIONS
ABSTRACT. Richards holds that the tasks of criminal law theory appear to be both explanatory and normative, concerned with both understanding and recommendations for change. Richards views both the criminal law and the remedies of the civil law as means of enforcement (certain moral rights relating ..
HOW DOES THE INTERNET AFFECT PEOPLE’S SENSE OF ONLINE COMMUNITY?
ABSTRACT. Machill and Beiler report how journalists integrate online research procedures into the overall research process, how they assess the Internet and search engines, and how highly developed their competences are in using search engines. Quan-Haase et al. claim that as the Internet is incorpo..
THE NEW ROLE OF THE INTERNET IN MAINTAINING AND INCREASING SOCIAL CAPITAL
ABSTRACT. Reese claims that the global audience’s most crucial feature is that it has been reconfigured in its denationalized spatial and synchronized temporal relationships. Barnhurst claims that news stories have become generally longer, more analytical, and focused on interpretation. Sassen obser..
BRENTANO: IMMANENT REALISM AND THE STRUCTURE OF INTENTIONAL REFERENCE
ABSTRACT. Smith maintains that Brentano conceives his own theory of substance as a refined and perfected version of the Aristotelian theory. According to Mulligan and Smith, Brentano argues that a range of different habits and training are necessary preconditions of noticing. McDonnell observes that..