Weak paternalism commits protégés to their own plans. This experiment addresses the question of whether protégés judge weakly paternalistic acts primarily by means of their consequences or on principle grounds. Subjects receive a reward for showing up to the laboratory early the next morning which decreases in time. Protégés can either self-commit to a planned time or self-liberate by preservin...

This article examines international relations rhetoric rather than foreign policy practice. Between the time of his acceptance Republican presidential nomination in August 2000 and reelection November 2004, George W. Bush changed rhetorical focus from "realist" to "liberal internationalist" an effort sell agenda. shift is identified through analysis nine speeches one excerpt a book wrote prior ...