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Europe’s Path to Public Reason
2012
Chapter 7 highlights how addressing public issues publicly is a main target of European institutions, considering their commitment to the identification of shared values and the protection of rights. In consideration of this, it is reasonable to ask whether the “Public Reason” set forth by Rawls can be somehow applied to Europe’s current perspective, understanding it to be the ruling criterion governing public issues. A major obstacle is to be found in the anti-pluralistic attitude which is widespread across the European states. However, constitutionalism, which is nowadays widely rooted on a global scale, makes contemporary political communities to characterize by disagreement and by the n…
PELIGROSIDAD, ALGORITMOS Y DUE PROCESS: EL CASO STATE vs. LOOMIS
2020
El movimiento contemporáneo tendente a la sustitución de la noción de peligrosidad por el enfoque de la valoración del riesgo (risk assessment), que se inició en el ámbito del derecho penitenciario y de ejecución de las penas, está llegando a otras fases del proceso penal, como la de sentencia. Presentándose como una práctica «basada en la evidencia» (evidence-based sentencing), propugna tomar en consideración las valoraciones estructuradas del riesgo de reincidencia a la hora de determinar la clase y cuantía de la pena a imponer, para adecuarla mejor a las necesidades de prevención especial. El presente trabajo analiza críticamente una de las primeras sentencias de un tribunal supremo esta…
A free press is bad news for corruption
2003
Abstract This paper tests the proposition that a free press may be a powerful control on corruption. We find evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries. This result is robust to specification and sample and the relationship is not sensitive to the choice of a particular measure of corruption or of press freedom. Furthermore we present evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corruption.
Utilidad pública de las asociaciones. Revocación por la Administración y solución fundacional.
2019
La finalidad no lucrativa de las asociaciones puede encaminarse a la consecución de fines tanto de interés particular como de interés general. En este segundo caso, la búsqueda del bien común les hace merecedoras de una especial protección por parte de los poderes públicos que se concreta en su declaración legal como «asociaciones de utilidad pública». Sin embargo, tras la Ley Orgánica de Asociaciones, de 22 de marzo de 2002 (LODA), la administración se muestra renuente a otorgar la calificación de utilidad pública a aquellas asociaciones que, en aras a allegar recursos para el cumplimiento de sus fines, desarrollen una actividad económica. A resultas de dicho proceder administrativo estas …
Jim Tomlinson: Public Policy and the Economy since 1900, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, 380 pp. (incluye bibliografía e índice conjunto de materias y…
1991
Beyond Legal Relations: Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld's Influence on American Institutionalism
2011
This paper documents Hohfeld’s influence on interwar American institutionalism. We will mainly focus on three leading figures of the movement: John Rogers Commons, Robert Lee Hale, and John Maurice Clark. They regarded Hohfeld’s contribution on jural relations as a preliminary step toward the understanding of the adversarial nature of legal rights. Albeit with substantial differences in style, method and emphasis, Hohfeld’s schema provided a powerful analytical and rhetorical tool for their analysis This paper documents Hohfeld's influence on interwar American institutionalism. We will mainly focus on three leading figures of the movement: John Rogers Commons, Robert Lee Hale, and John Maur…
Discretionary time: A new measure of freedom, Robert Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo, and Lina Eriksson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press…
2009
"Facta non verba" : an experiment on pledging and giving
2015
International audience; We design an experiment to investigate whether asking people to state how much they will donate to a charity (i.e., to pledge) increases their actual donation. Individuals’ endowment is either certain or a random variable. We study different types of pledges, namely, private, public and irrevocable, which differ in terms of the cost to the individual for not keeping the promise. We show that in absence of endowment uncertainty, private and public pledges are associated with lower donations as compared to donations in the no-pledge case: private pledges slightly reduce donations and public pledges reduce them more significantly. Donations increase with uncertainty (in…
A missing tool to achieve the UN 2030 agenda goal n.8 : a proposal for a regulatory framework at a federal level regarding worker
2020
Worldwide interest and support for worker cooperatives at all levels, from global to local are increasing. The 2030 UN Agenda, Goal 8 aims to promote “sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”. Even so, worker cooperatives are still rare in the United States. Unfortunately, as there is no comprehensive regulatory framework for worker cooperatives in the USA or a minimum legislation covering their concept at a federal level, the study is conducted through the judicial interpretation of sections 1381 through 1388 in subchapter T to the Internal Revenue Code. Nonetheless, a clear pattern and conclusions can be deducted out of…
An introduction to the Economics of Fake Degrees
2008
08045; International audience; This paper critiques the multifarious ways whereby academic qualifications may be falsified in the international marketplace. The objectives are fourfold: (1) defining the main terms used such as fake degrees and diploma mills; (2) providing a brief history of fake degrees and identifying the factors that explain their recent development; (3) developing a theoretical framework to analyze fake degrees; and (4) exploring the costs and benefits of this activity and its net impacton a given society. Degrees serve instrumental and ceremonial purposes. It is argued that degree holders may be considered as members of a club. They confer totheir holders excludable but…