Economic Globalism and Political Universalism: Conflicting Issues?

Debt and Deficits: Some Measurement, Economic and Political Issues

Psychopathic Criminals: Political, Economic, Developmental, and Treatment Issues

This paper, written in 1995, was motivated by my running groups for violent offenders for two years, as I was preparing for my doctoral internship. I had a master’s degree in clinical psychology and was halfway through my Ph.D. program. My interest was in tying together the applied, academic, political, and economic issues affecting the treatment of criminals. Corrections policies are largely r...

The Mexican Electricity Sector: Economic, Legal and Political Issues

The origins of the Mexican Electric Power System can be traced back to the year 1879, when the first thermoelectric plant started its operation, mainly to satisfy the textile industry in the city of Leon, in the state of Guanajuato. At these early stages, the main goal of the electricity supply industry was that of satisfying the demand of the textile and mining industries (like “Real del Monte...

Political Terms by APLL: Issues of Terminology Implantation and ‎Acceptability

The present study investigates the implantation of political science terminology approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) in the Hamshahri corpus made up of news text from Hamshahri newspaper and their acceptability among MA students of English translation studies (ETS), English literature (EL), and Political science (PS). To conduct this research the frequencies of the...

Economic Inequality and Political Representation

I examine the differential responsiveness of U.S. senators to the preferences of rich and poor constituents. My analysis includes broad summary measures of senators' roll call voting behavior as well as specific votes on the minimum wage, civil rights, government spending, and abortion. In every instance, senators appear to be much more responsive to the opinions of affluent constituents than t...