the formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. this is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. this may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. but it’s important t...

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

How do law and politics intertwine in Supreme Court adjudication? Traditionally, in law schools and political science departments, scholars refused to mix law and politics. Law professors insisted that legal texts and doctrines controlled Supreme Court decision making, while political scientists maintained that political ideologies dictated the justices'votes. In the late twentieth century, som...

The death on 7 April 2009 of Samuel Beer, still vigorous at the age of 97, marks the passing of an era in the study of British politics, not least in the United States where he towered over the field for more than 50 years. This is an appropriate moment to reflect on the distinctive perspectives Beer brought to the study of politics. Although he was a scholar of American federalism and European...

political science at Yale University, conducts research on institutional change, environmental politics, and development. His research has appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Development and Change, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and World Development. His first book was Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community among a Migrant Pastora...

In this paper, we disclose and explain Internet politics, an “invisible hand” that inherently affects Internet research. We show that it could cause significant underutilization of constructive research ideas and a vicious cycle of bias in mainstream research ideas. However, we also expose that it is possible to gradually alleviate effects of the Internet politics by well understanding it. To t...

This study proposes a corpus-based method to generate Mapping Principle of metaphors. In particular, Ahrens's (2002) Mapping Principle in the Conceptual Mapping Model (CM model) is simply based on the native speakers' intuition instead of analyzing it from huge linguistic data. In order to provide more convincing evidence to support the CM model, we adopt the corpus method to extract out the me...

INTRODUCTION A recent development in the study of foreign policy is the growing attention being given to bureaucratic politics explanations of national foreign policy behavior.' In fact, it would be no exaggeration to characterize the bureaucratic politics approach or bureaucratic paradigm as a major research thrust in contemporary international relations theory. Foreign policy behavior, the bu...

This study proposes a corpus-based method to generate Mapping Principle of metaphors. In particular, Ahrens's (2002) Mapping Principle in the Conceptual Mapping Model (CM model) is simply based on the native speakers' intuition instead of analyzing it from huge linguistic data. In order to provide more convincing evidence to support the CM model, we adopt the corpus method to extract out the me...

This paper offers an entrée into the discussion with the argument that politics have a cost in development these costs can be political, economic, social or even emotional, as well as psychological. To this end, the paper attempts to locate the intersection between politics and poverty and poses the question: “Do politics matter?” This paper is based on a desk-top study and used mainly secondar...