Accountability Conceptions and Federalism Tales: Disney's Wonderful World?

Alternative conceptions of accountability.

The following view of accountability-the guidance approach-is the view closest to my heart. It took me 600-odd pages to explain it elsewhere." Here I will simply susgcst its chief points relevant to the issue at hand. Accountability is based on a variety of interacting forces, not one lone attribute or mechanism. The direction health administrators take, in accountability as in other matters, i...

The wonderful world of cricket.

C ricket geeks love numbers. It is amazing that there are only 42 rules of cricket but the statistics on the game fill libraries. I wonder whether the late Douglas Adams had that number in mind when he wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the planet-sized super computer ‘‘Deep Thought’’ came up with the same answer to the question of the meaning of life. What is it about cricket that ...

The Wonderful World of Global Random Oracles

The random-oracle model by Bellare and Rogaway (CCS’93) is an indispensable tool for the security analysis of practical cryptographic protocols. However, the traditional random-oracle model fails to guarantee security when a protocol is composed with arbitrary protocols that use the same random oracle. Canetti, Jain, and Scafuro (CCS’14) put forth a global but non-programmable random oracle in ...

Non-normal Dialogics for a Wonderful World and More

The aim of the paper is to offer a dialogical interpretation of non-normal modal logic which will suggest some explorations beyond the concept of nonnormality. This interpretation will be connected to the discussion of two issues, one more philosophical and the second of a more technical nature: namely a minimalist defence of logical pluralism and the difficulties involved in the application of...

Fault, Accidents, and the Wonderful World of Blum and Kalven