Constitutional Government in Japan

The Impoundment Dilemma: Crisis in Constitutional Government

Ensuring Constitutional Authority: Continuity of Government

______________ 1See Appendix A for a list of the Department of Defense Directives (DoDDs) relevant to continuity of government activities. 2See Federation of American Scientists, 1999a. Press interest in federal COG programs increased after the cold war. See Emerson (1989) and Gup (1991, 1992). 3Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution seems to provide the constitutional authority for milita...

Political Determinants of Government Loans in Japan

This paper examines the political influence on government bank lending decisions using the prefecture level panel data on Japan’s government loans from 1975 to 1992. I find that prefectures that were represented by more influential members of the ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), tended to receive more government loans. I also find that the amount of government loans tended to i...

Hiv and Medical Privacy: Government Infringement on Prisoners' Constitutional Rights

The high rate of HIV infection among Americans, the ease with which the virus is transmitted, and the terminal nature of the virus have made its existence a vital national public health issue.' Concern regarding HIV is heightened in U.S. correctional facilities, in which the prevalence of the virus is disproportionately high.2 As of December 31, 2003, 1.9% of the total U.S. prison population wa...

SMBE proposal to the government of Japan.

Ken Wolfe, Marta L. Wayne, Kateryna Makova, Tomoko Y. Steen, Marcy Uyenoyama, and Naoyuki Takahata Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland Department of Biology, University of Florida, USA Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, USA Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA Department of Biology, Duke University, USA The Graduate Un...