What can a government do? Government issue ownership and real-world problems

Kant's Perpetual Peace and World Government

Paying for what government should do.

Barack Obama released in February, called " A New Era of Responsibility, " is as much a philosophy of government as a fiscal action plan. Gone is the Ronald Reagan view that " government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. " Obama rightly sees an expanded role for government as vital to meeting the 21st-century challenge of sustainable development. The scientific disc...

Visual events and electronic government: What do pictures mean in digital government for citizen relations?

E-government is becoming more picture-oriented. What meaning do stakeholders attach to visual events and visualization? Comparative case study research show the functional meaning primarily refers to registration, integration, transparency and communication. The political meaning refers to new ways of framing in order to secure specific interests and claims. To what the institutional meaning re...

How to Refute Inaccurate Media and Government Reports on Medicine: What Can One Doctor Do?

1Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo; 3Department of Neurosurgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano; 4Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa; 5Department of Neurosurgery...

What Happened to the Idea of World Government*

What happened to the idea of world government, so central in the United States to public debate of the 1930s and 1940s, and why has it been replaced by ‘‘global governance’’? This article reviews the reasons behind that evolution—the need to incorporate interdependence and nonstate actors into analytical frameworks along with a lack of imagination from analysts—as well as the pluses and minuses...