VOLUME 8(2) • 2016
MECHANISMS FOR ENHANCING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of ethical tendencies in the accounting profession, accountants’ ethical duties, the use of ethical principles to accounting regulation, and the driving force of public accountants to make ethical decisions. My analysis compleme..
DIVERSITY AND POTENTIAL: THE LATINO ELECTORATE IN THE 2016 ELECTIONS
ABSTRACT. A record 27.3 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in the 2016 US elections. This paper encapsulates a series of panel discussions at American University’s Annual Latino Public Affairs Forum on the potential impact of the Latino vote, and supplements those discussions with academic res..
BUREAUCRATIC ACTIVISM AND COLOMBIAN COMMUNITY MOTHERS: THE DAILY CONSTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW
ABSTRACT. Whereas mainstream literature affirms that the rule of law is an abstract concept that comes from democracy and liberal institutional systems, people in the local Global South do not experience this certainty. In some ways, the rule of law is a product of the daily life transactions and ba..
THE TRANSNATIONAL STATE, NEOLIBERALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION POLICY: A NEW ZEALAND CASE STUDY
ABSTRACT. The neoliberalisation of environmental policy (including environmental education) is complex and multifaceted and one in which the transnational state (TNS) is central. In order to address this claim, the first part of this paper explains the transnational state and in particular the role ..
VULNERABILITY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-REFOULEMENT IN THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: TOWARDS AN INCREASED SCOPE OF PROTECTION FOR PERSONS FLEEING FROM EXTREME POVERTY?
ABSTRACT. “Economic refugees” largely remain outside the international protection regimes of refugee and human rights law. Nevertheless, recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) opens up limited possibilities for economic refugees to rely on Article 3 of the European Convention ..
DECEPTION DETECTION TECHNIQUES USING POLYGRAPH IN TRIALS: CURRENT STATUS AND SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
ABSTRACT. The current study was conducted to summarize the legal positions, to which each state in the US has held fast in the social scientific evidence related to the polygraph technique, and empirical studies on the validity of polygraph techniques. This study consisted of two parts, first, each ..
INCENTIVE-COMPATIBILITY AND COASEAN INVARIANCE IN PROPERTY AFFAIRS
ABSTRACT. We make an attempt to broaden the Coase invariance theorem by including asymmetry of information. Given the probability distributions of strong and weak types of property-disputing parties, we show how incentive-compatible legal rules may be constructed to eliminate adverse selection and m..
THE INNOCENCE OF NEGLIGENCE
ABSTRACT. This article defends the claim that negligence is not blameworthy, and that the system of accident law that dominates Anglo-American law is thus not, in fact, fault-based. Recognizing that this claim contradicts hundreds of years of case law and jurisprudential rhetoric, the article system..
THE MORALITY OF GREGARIOUS EGOISM
ABSTRACT. There is a widespread misunderstanding about ethical egoism, with only a few exceptions (e.g., David L. Norton and Ayn Rand). The position does not promote interpersonal hostility and acrimony but mainly the virtue of prudence, in the Aristotelian ethical tradition of eudemonia. That is a ..
VIOLENCE BETWEEN AND WITHIN POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA: STATISTICS, STRUCTURES, AND PATTERNS (2006–2014)
ABSTRACT. Acts of violence between political parties in Nigeria are usually associated with general elections with their spectacular death toll and it is seen as the result of frauds and electoral malpractices. I argue that this focus hides most of the violence between political parties over the 200..