VOLUME 3(4) • 2008
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE JURIDICAL THEORY OF RESPONSIBILITY A THEORY OF?
ABSTRACT. Ruiz maintains that the local laws of the responsibilities of civil servants tend to employ the generic expression of civil servant. Ricoeur remarks that current sentencing practices and forms of rehabilitation prevent the condemned person from acknowledging fault. Raff notes that the conc..
LAW, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. Harlow considers some classical administrative law responses to changing techniques of public administration. Douence affirms that following major reforms between 1982 and 1986, the local government system continued to develop with successive touches on the helm, but with no strong guiding..
BY WHAT ACCOUNT OF MEANING CAN ONE RECONCILE EMPIRICISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE? (I)
ABSTRACT. According to Livingston, Wittgenstein’s inquiry in Philosophical Investigations interrogates the deeply held assumptions that can make the structuralist picture of language seem obvious and unquestionable wherever the nature of language is in question. Kuusela emphasizes that Wittgenstein ..
MEMORY AWARENESS, COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE, AND INCREMENTAL LEARNING
ABSTRACT. Pilotti et al.’s investigation examines the contribution of memory awareness to interference, conceptualized as response competition that arises from the encoding of materials similar in appearance. Allen et al. conduct a neuropsychological and cognitive assessment study to determine wheth..
IS THE COMMUNIST LEGACY STILL SHAPING ROMANIAN POLITICS?
ABSTRACT. Henderson argues that the IMF influenced the adjustment processes of several Eastern European nations in the 1980s through its efforts to promote market-oriented stabilization and reform. Scrieciu and Stringer observe that since the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and t..
THE ADOPTION OF THE INTERNET AS A NEWS MEDIUM
ABSTRACT. Castells argues that the information technology revolution induced the emergence of informationalism as the material foundation of a new society. Manovich remarks that the World Wide Web encourages the creation of texts that consist entirely of pointers to other texts that are already on t..
MATHEMATICAL THINKING AND THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS
ABSTRACT. Avigad writes that mathematical objects like numbers and sets are archetypical examples of abstracta. Putnam remarks that mathematical knowledge resembles empirical knowledge. Gaifman outlines a project in the philosophy of mathematics based on a proposed view of the nature of mathematical..
PRE-1945 HISTORY AND THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE
ABSTRACT. Gilbert emphasizes the role the concept of European unity played in the political discourse of Britain's progressive intellectuals between Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and the end of World War II. Wusten remarks that the Europe of the European Union has an important set of policy arenas at..
SPACE AND NETWORKS
ABSTRACT. On LeSage and Charles’s reading, the location of newer homes plays a major role in defining the urban–rural fringe. Kaboudan and Sarkar maintain that input data of prices or average prices and attributes are a combination of cross-sectional and time series observations. Dumedah et al. writ..
NAZI GERMANY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE THIRD REICH
ABSTRACT. Goodall examines the development of anticommunism in the United States in the Depression years. Waddington offers insights into the nature of nazi external propaganda. Bessel says that the capture of power by Hitler and the nazi movement in 1933 was one of the great turning-points in moder..
DEVELOPMENT OF CRIMINAL LAW, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, AND TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Donohue looks at the American institution of legal controls on the executive branch and their subsequent erosion post 9/11. Suk holds that criminal law tends to seek new frontiers of liability and to bring into its ambit areas of life previously not regulated by it. Baker says that the cri..
LAW, GOOD GOVERNANCE, AND A GLOBAL PUBLIC ORDER SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. Azmat and Coghill observe that ‘good governance’ is increasingly regarded as pivotal to development in developing countries. Pekassa Ndam examines whether the new political dynamism and legislative architecture of Cameroon in terms of communication has been accompanied by innovations in th..