who has the right of legislation?

Who has the “Right” to Use the N-Word? A Survey of Attitudes about the Acceptability of Using the N-Word and its Derivatives

The N-word is the ultimate insult that has tormented generations of African-Americans. Yet over time, N-word derivatives have become popular terms of endearment by the descendants of the very people who once had to endure the N-word. Therein lies the root of an ongoing argument in society today: Who has the ‘right’ to use the N-word and N-word derivatives?  A quota sample (N=347) of undergradua...

Apology legislation: the time has come.

Has Family Leave Legislation Increased Leave-Taking?

In 1993, the federal government passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which gives eligible employees twelve weeks of job-protected unpaid leave from work per year to address family issues. Employees are eligible for family leave under the FMLA if they have worked for their employer for at least a year, accumulating at least 1,250 work hours. Employers are covered if they employ at lea...

Who Has Anticipatory Feelings?

I consider a general model of decisionmaking where anticipatory feelings enter the agent's utility function in addition to physical outcomes, and allow for interactions between these two payo components. I use an equilibrium concept, personal equilibrium, that combines best response to other selves' strategies with rational expectations in the formation of feelings. A decisionmaker with feeling...

Who owns the information? Who has the power?

Dr Sally Stansfield is the Executive Secretary of the Health Metrics Network. A citizen of the United States of America, she gained her medical degree at the University of Washington and later studied at Yale. From 1999 to 2006, she was the Associate Director for Global Health Strategies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She draws upon more than 30 years of clinical and public health prac...

Who has the power in the EU?

The European Union (EU) is facing the challenge of enlargement to almost double its size; which has strong implications for the balance of power among member states. Building on the work of Shapley (1977) and Owen (1972), we present a measure of power that is based on players’ preferences and number of votes. We apply this measure to the Council of Ministers to see who wields power now and who ...