INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 641 I. THE FLAWED ACCOUNTABILITY AXIOM ............................................. 643 A. Accountability Deficit .................................................................. 643 B. Asymmetries in Accountability .................................................... 647 II. THE INTE...

In Georgia v. Randolph, the U.S. Supreme Court saw new Chief Justice John Roberts’s first written dissent. In somewhat barbed language, the Chief Justice challenged the majority’s perspective on what properly characterized the defendant’s, and society’s, expectations of privacy. Forty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence has explicitly relied on gauging such expectations, since Justice Harlan i...

The authors conducted 2 studies to develop and test measures that assess beliefs about what constitutes a disability, affective reactions to working with individuals with disabilities, and beliefs about the reasonableness of workplace accommodations, in general and within the context of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The results of these 2 studies showed substantial differences in w...

the development of effective organizations for service provision and responding to the demands of the citizens in a rapid, easy and suitable fashion has been considered by officials of the public sector in recent years in many countries worldwide. the realization of the importance, application and also the role that itc can play toward promotion of accountability in the public sector, has cause...

in this paper, by using a model of the new keynesians, we investigated the role of the central bank's accountability to shocks that causes deviations in the performance of the monetary policymakers. for this purpose, we used quarterly data for 69: 1 to 93: 3, and estimated the basic equations of the new keynesians model. then, by calculating the optimal values for the central bank's a...

The OECD BEPS Action 6 report contains a principal purpose test rule (PPT rule) for the purpose of combating abuse of tax treaties. This PPT rule is also included in the OECD Multilateral Instrument. The PPT rule is (amongst others) applicable when ‘it is reasonable to conclude’ that a benefit (granted by a tax treaty) was one of the principal purposes of any arrangement/ transaction. This requ...