This brief commentary seeks to develop the analysis of Daniels, Porteny and Urrutia of the implications of expansion of the scope of health technology assessment (HTA) beyond issues of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. Drawing in particular on experience in the United Kingdom, it suggests that such expansion can be understood not only as a response to the problem of insufficiency of evi...

Greif, Avner, and Tadelis, Steven—A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy Why, how, and under what conditions do moral beliefs persist despite institutional pressure for change?Why do the powerful often fail to promote the morality of their authority? This paper addresses these questions by presenting the role of crypto-morality in moral persistence. Crypto-moral...

This article examines the construction of political legitimacy and authority in discourses democratic leaders by attempting to distinguish between two often confused notions, identify discursive argumentative procedures that put them place. It takes stock a body work devoted subject proposes an original approach emphasizes centrality argumentation process legitimation leader’s authority. Using ...

This paper examines the differences between moralist, realist, and pragmatist approaches to political legitimacy by articulating their largely implicit views of judgment. Three claims are advanced. First, salient opposition among is not “moralism” “realism.” Recent realist proposals for rethinking share with moralist a distinctive form, called “normativism”: quest knowledge principles that solv...