Imperial powers and democratic imaginations

Generational research: between historical and sociological imaginations

In an overview of the history of post war British sociological research Mike Savage traces a transition from what he describes as a ‘gentlemanly sociology’ – normative in intention drawing on narrative and secondary sources – to a technical and empirical project employing the new methods of the interview and the survey. The latter, he suggests, abandoned an evolutionary project of relating past...

Authorization Required: Veterans Treatment Courts, the Need for Democratic Legitimacy, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine

What limits do judges have when creating specialty courts such as Veterans Treatment Courts (“VTCs”)? Many states have virtually no limits. I argue that states should enact legislation authorizing the creation of VTCs to maintain democratic legitimacy and ensure that the judiciary respects the separation of powers doctrine. VTCs represent an innovative and courageous approach to treat and rehab...

Session title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS OF RELIGION

Government’s Powers and FTAs: The Effect of Domestic and Foreign Powers on Multilateral Trade

This paper elaborates on the government's powers - both at the domestic level and over foreign countries. The domestic power is the power against domestic lobbies, and the foreign one is the government's international power. To do so, this paper tries to evaluate the effects of these powers   on the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs). The theoretical framework follows an oligopolistic-po...

Imperial College,

We review the properties of classical p-brane solutions to supergravity theories, i.e. solutions that may be interpreted as Poincaré-invariant hyperplanes in space-time. Topics covered include the distinction between elementary/electric and soli-tonic/magnetic solutions, examples of singularity and global structure, relations between mass densities, charge densities and the preservation of unbr...