Our objective in this paper is to analyze the degree of political dominance exercised by the executive power on cabinets in presidential systems. According to the 1990s debate, in contrast to parliamentary systems where a joint decision-making process is prevalent, presidential systems are characterized by a non-collegial decisionmaking process, led and personalized in the figure of the preside...

Abstract The epistemic virtues and vices are typically defined in terms of effects or motivations related to the states their possessors. However, philosophers have recently begun consider other-regarding virtues, traits oriented toward flourishing others. In a similar vein, this paper discusses outward-facing vices, properties languishing I argue for existence both reliabilist responsibilist i...

Most scholars focus on whether the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines effectively constrain judges or result in disparate decisions based on a court’s or defendant’s location. With few exceptions, studies of the effect of judicial attributes on federal-district-court-sentencing cases have been stymied by the United States Sentencing Commission’s refusal to release judges’ names in their databases of se...