It has been nearly a decade since Stephen Burbank and Barry Friedman edited their impressive volume, Judicial Independence at the Crossroads. One of the enduring lessons of that book was that research on judicial independence was, and ought to be, fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature. In the years since its publication, we have witnessed a substantial volume of research on the subject, and...

When voting on a proposal one in fact chooses between two alternatives: (i) A new hypothetical social state depicted by the proposal and (ii) the status quo (henceforth: Reality); a Yes vote favors a transition to the proposed hypothetical state, while a No vote favors Reality. Social Choice theory generalizes voting on one proposal to ranking multiple proposals; that Reality was forsaken durin...

In six experiments we show that initial valuations of familiar products and simple hedonic experiences are strongly inuenced by arbitrary “anchors” (sometimes derived from a person’s social security number). Because subsequent valuations are also coherent with respect to salient differences in perceived quality or quantity of these products and experiences, the entire pattern of valuations can...

Text coherence evaluation becomes a vital and lovely task in Natural Language Processing subfields, such as text summarization, question answering, text generation and machine translation. Existing methods like entity-based and graph-based models are engaging with nouns and noun phrases change role in sequential sentences within short part of a text. They even have limitations in global coheren...

This report describes the development and refinement of a set of scales for use in research on predictors of colorectal cancer screening adherence. The study population included 2693 of 4490 eligible white male automotive employees who answered a mailed questionnaire (60% response rate) on beliefs and attitudes related to colorectal cancer and screening. Exploratory and confirmatory factor anal...

In two experiments we aimed to investigate if individual differences in state-dependent decreases or increases of EEG coherence between prefrontal and posterior cortical regions may be indicative of a mechanism modulating the impact social-emotional information has on an individual. Two independent samples were exposed to an emotional stimulation paradigm in which the participants were invited ...

The recent decades of Marxist social science, particularly political economy, have been characterized by an intense theoretical defensive. The shortcomings of Eastern European socialism and its ideological reflections have been revealed gradually. However, the "ruthless criticism of all that exists" has not been accompanied by an alternative socialist theory. The image of the society to be achi...

When agent A exercises power over agent B, what is the effect on B’s freedom? Is B less free as a result? Does A remove any specific freedoms of B? Most of us feel intuitively that there are many kinds of social power, and that while some of these may affect B’s freedom to a great extent, others may affect it less, and others still may leave B’s freedom completely intact. It would seem to be im...

The revised common objectives of the EU Strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion include targeting the high risk of social exclusion faced by some people as a result of immigration.Access to decent and affordable housing is a critical condition for inclusion in society and integration into a host culture.A key objective of this study is to assist the development of more coherent and inte...

There is an old saying that we don’t really understand something if we cannot communicate it to others. In our work with state and local sites pursuing systems integration, we have found this axiom holds true. Proponents of human services reform often believe they know what they are trying to accomplish through systems integration. However, when asked to tell a coherent story about their reform...