“THE NEXT STEPS”: MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND GOVERNMENT BY AGENCY

Ministerial Weights and Government Formation: Estimation Using a Bargaining Model∗

This paper proposes a method to estimate relative ministerial weights in parliamentary democracies. Specifically, our method combines a bargaining model of government formation with maximum likelihood estimation. The data required for estimation are who formateurs are, what each party’s voting weight is, and what ministerial seats each party obtains. We use variation of the data and the structu...

The Next Steps

Epistemic Responsibility without Epistemic Agency

This article discusses the arguments against associating epistemic responsibility with the ordinary notion of agency. I examine the various “Kantian” views which lead to a distinctive conception of epistemic agency and epistemic responsibility, in particular the one proposed by Pamela Hieronymi (2007). I try to explain why we can be held responsible for our beliefs in the sense of obeying norms...

Conclusions and Next Steps

Conclusions y the mid-1990s, jim gray had recognized that the next " big data " challenges for database technology would come from science and not from commerce. He also identified the technical challenges that such data-intensive science would pose for scientists and the key role that IT and computer science could play in enabling future scientific discoveries. The term " eScience " was coined...

Implementation and next steps

On March 14, 2011 and March 28, 2011, Divisional Council (DIVCO) discussed the draft document, Online course evaluation: access to evaluation data, context & recommendations, informed by the comments of the committees on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations (BIR) and Educational Policy (CEP). DIVCO endorsed the committee comments, which are appended in their entirety. We also discussed the su...