Fifty years after the publication of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty , Albert Hirschman’s work is receiving renewed attention in leading journals, including efforts to develop formal models new strands democratic theory that capture his insights. These have led some conclude power flows exclusively from an ability exit at low cost, we can only empower weaker elements society by giving them more choice...

Abstract Recently, there has been a revival in taking empirical magnitudes seriously. Weights, heights, velocities and the like have accepted as abstract entities their own right rather than just equivalence classes of objects. The aim my paper is to show that this should include value magnitudes. If we posit such magnitudes, important comparisons (cross-world, cross-time, mind world, cross-the...

Background: Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for anal...

over the past 25 years, autonomy has been a popular focus for discussion and increasingly influential in foreign language educa- tion. most research is concentrated on learner autonomy, while teacher autonomy has been seriously neglected. recently, however, researchers and experts have realized that to enhance learner autonomy, we must enhance teacher autonomy (e.g., benson 2000; little 1995; l...

It is time that we as a Nation took seriously the task of preventing mental health problems and treating mental illness in youth...Children are suffering needlessly because their emotional, behavioral and developmental needs are not being met by those very institutions which were explicitly created to take care of them (Report of the Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health, 2000).