Forget the Transnational State

Comparing transnational organizational innovation in state administration and local government

The article explore three issues: 1) How widespread and important are various forms of transnational organizational innovation in the Danish public sector? 2) How are these organizational innovations related to each other? 3) What are the differences and similarities in transnational organizational innovation between state administration and local government and how can they be explained? By tr...

Forget It!

We encountered the need for a theory of forgetting in our work on Cognitive Robotics. 1 In our effort to control an autonomous robot, we imagine the robot has a knowledge base representing the initial world state. As the robot performs actions, she needs to bring the knowledge base up to date. To do so, she needs to forget about all the facts that are no longer true, and in such a way that this...

The Forget-me-not Process

We introduce the Forget-me-not Process, an efficient, non-parametric metaalgorithm for online probabilistic sequence prediction for piecewise stationary, repeating sources. Our method works by taking a Bayesian approach to partitioning a stream of data into postulated task-specific segments, while simultaneously building a model for each task. We provide regret guarantees with respect to piecew...

Transnational Actors, Transnational Institutions, Transnational Spaces: the Role of Law Firms in the Internationalization of Competition Regulation

Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State

Theories of a “new imperialism” assume that world capitalism in the 21st century is still made up of “domestic capitals” and that distinct national economies and world political dynamics are driven by US eff orts to off set the decline in hegemony amidst heightened inter-imperialist rivalry. These theories ignore empirical evidence on the transnationalization of capital and the increasingly sal...