Abstract Driven by the need to address immediate public health threats of COVID-19 pandemic, this has seen a rise technocratic mode governance around world. A approach is evidence-based and relies upon guidance experts respond crisis. The technocracy reflects utilitarian calculus that seeks preserve greater good. Taiwan’s pandemic response exemplifies strengths weaknesses type governance. Based...

Hunger strikes are commonly repressed in prison and seen as disruptive, coercive, violent. strikers their advocates insist that incarcerated persons have a right to hunger strike, which protects them against repression force-feeding. Physicians medical ethicists generally ground this the refuse treatment; lawyers legal scholars derive it from persons’ free speech rights. Neither account adequat...

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: Economic Efficiency, Social Justice, and Individual Liberty.