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Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Some Political Implications of Religious Beliefs

government regulation of the participation of the religion and its members in the political process. See, e.g., Mansfield, The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment and the Philosophy of the Constitution, 72 ... significantly, if subtly, shapes American views on church-state relations. Because privatized religion and secularized politics are thought necessary for religious freedom and social and political stability

Environment, Violence, and Political Change

(2001). Available at: Follow thsi and additional works at; http; //scholarship; law; nd; edu/ndjlepp POLITICAL CHANGE RAIMO VAYRYNEN* I. THE RESEARCH PUZZLE Traditionally, the analysis of violent ... conflicts has been a rather straightforward task. Unitary State actors have confronted each other over divisible spoils concerning territory, natural resources, or the seat of political power. If diplomacy

Rationality, preference satisfaction and anomalous intentions: why rational choice theory is not self-defeating

preferences than they would be if they abided by some normative theory of choice other than RCT. In this paper, I combine insights from philosophy of action, philosophy of mind and the normative foundations of

A Propos of Professor Perry: A Plea for Philosophy in Sexual Ethics

Philosophy in Sexual Ethics , 9 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 75 (1995). Available at: - Article 4 I. Philosophical reflection on sexual ethics has historically been dominated by two problems. The ... first of these we might * Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. 1. D.H. LAWRENCE, A Prpos of "LadyChatterly's Lover", in PHOENIX II 487, 489-90 (1968). 2. John Finnis Law, Morality and

An Item Veto: A Constitutional and Political Irrelevancy

discourage spending: The [national political] system is one of checks and bal ances, and the Federal machinery for combatting and deflating departmental concepts of what is necessary is so extensive and at ... legislation. If the current deficits can not to be explained in institutional terms, how can they to be explained? Perhaps these deficits reflect more a political than an institutional problem. Rather than

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Compensable Liberty: A Historical and Political Model of the Seventh Amendment Public Law Jury

particularized unfairness and harm from its application.6 The text for this pragmatic solution to the conflict between absolute economic liberties and political expediency was the Court's earlier assertion in

The Guilty but Mentally Ill Verdict: Political Expediency at the Expense of Moral Principle

in a political vacuum or in an atmosphere devoid of public pressures. 5 The events following the trial of Dan White illustrate how public sentiment can influence and shape such legislative decision

Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation

of Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf , Universitaetsstr. 1, 40225 Duesseldorf , Germany There is a plurality of formal constraints for aggregating probabilities of a group of individuals ... philosophy of science recent research focusses a lot on the relation of scientific groups having gathered a different set of evidence, holding different theories, and providing alternative explanations (cf

Bounded rationality for relaxing best response and mutual consistency: the quantal hierarchy model of decision making

( 4 ), 1297 - 1333 . Alaoui , L. , & Penta , A. ( 2022 ). Cost-benefit analysis in reasoning . Journal of Political Economy , 130 ( 4 ), 881 - 925 . Anufriev , M. , Duffy , J. , & Panchenko , V. ( 2022 ... & Philosophy , 3 ( 2 ), 179 - 214 . Binmore , K. ( 1988 ). Modeling rational players: Part II . Economics & Philosophy , 4 ( 1 ), 9 - 55 . Binmore , K. , McCarthy , J. , Ponti , G. , Samuelson , L. , & Shaked

Developing a Philosophy of Lawyering

of law, lawyers develop, either thoughtfully or haphazardly, a general approach for making these decisions. I use the term "philosophy of lawyering" to refer to the basic principles that a lawyer uses ... lawyering. The beginning point for this debate has been called "neutral partisanship" or the "dominant view" of the lawyer's role. Under a philosophy of neutral partisanship, lawyers zealously represent their

Belief inducibility and informativeness

divide et impera and, thus, wants to create political unrest in a foreign country by implementing a very heterogeneous belief profile.2 Suppose that there are only two states, say X and Y. Then it is ... ). Feasible joint posterior beliefs . Journal of Political Economy , 129 , 2546 - 2594 . Aumann , R.J. , Maschler , M.B. , & Stearns , R.E . (Eds.), ( 1995 ). Repeated games with incomplete information . MIT

Who accepts Savage’s axiom now?

the measurability of utility . Journal of Political Economy , 1 , 463 - 474 . Gilboa , I. ( 2010 ). Questions in decision theory . Annual Review of Economics , 2 , 1 - 19 . https://doi.org/10. 1146 ... it became, what it really was, what it now suggests to us . Economics and Philosophy , 35 , 423 - 459 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267118000469 Moskovitz , H. ( 1974 ). Effects of problem

Accountability as a Warrant for Trust: An Experiment on Sanctions and Justifications in a Trust Game

quality of deliberation . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 12 ( 4 ), 389 - 410 . Charness , G. , Cobo-Reyes , R. , & Jime´nez, N. ( 2008 ). An investment game with third party intervention . Journal of ... accountability. In political economy and rational choice theory, accountability is primarily understood as a mechanism based on material sanctions or rewards (Fearon, 1999: 55) . Besley (2006: 37) defines

Original position arguments and social choice under ignorance

Journal of Philosophy , 115 ( 11 ), 588 - 604 . Harsanyi , J. C. ( 1953 ). Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking . Journal of Political Economy , 61 ( 5 ), 434 - 435 ... Science, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium 1 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands John Rawls famously argued that the Difference

Acting on belief functions

The degrees of belief of rational agents should be guided by the evidence available to them. This paper takes as a starting point the view—argued elsewhere—that the formal model best able to capture this idea is one that represents degrees of belief using Dempster–Shafer belief functions. However, degrees of belief should not only respect evidence; they also guide decision and...

Just society

scrutinized in a number of fields including political philosophy and economics. His maximin rule for the distribution of income and wealth is perhaps most criticized. Rawls is well aware that the maximin rule ... person and the right to hold property; political liberty (the right to vote and equal eligibility for public office); and equal access for positions in private and public sectors). Thus, the three