Agency Performance Challenges and Agency Politicization

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

Regulatory Agencies – the Challenges of Balancing Agency

Foreword From Takeover to Merger: Reforming Administrative Law in an Age of Agency Politicization

The Reagan Administration’s aggressive efforts to deregulate the national economy touched off a sharp debate over the proper relationship between the White House and the federal bureaucracy—and that debate continues to this day. Peter Strauss’s foreword1 last year directly joined it by setting forth an elegant and incisive critique of the notion that the President should be empowered to act as ...

Performance Measures for Local Agency Traffic Signals

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Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion: Distinctions from Agency and Communion

The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of distinguishing unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion from agency and communion. First, we examine the empirical overlap and distinctions among the four constructs. Then, we demonstrate the differential association of unmitigated agency, unmitigated communion, agency, and communion to relationship and health outcomes. We conclude...