Local autonomy and interregional equality

Local autonomy and interregional equality

This paper shows how two important interregional transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant scheme, can be seen as two different interpretations of equal opportunity ethics. It provides characterizations of both transfer schemes by theuse of basic liberal egalitarianprinciples. Both the foundation grant and the power equalization grant scheme make use of specific re...

Equality and Autonomy in First Amendment Jurisprudence

Health equality, social justice and the poverty of autonomy.

How does the concept of autonomy assist public responses to 'lifestyle' diseases? Autonomy is fundamental to bioethics, but its emphasis on self-determination and individuality hardly supports public health policies to eat and drink less and take more exercise. Autonomy rejects a 'nanny' state. Yet, the cost of non-communicable diseases is increasing to individuals personally and to public heal...

Certificate Distribution with Local Autonomy

Any security architecture for a wide area network system spanning multiple administrative domains will require support for policy delegation and certiicate distribution across the network. Practical solutions will support local autonomy requirements of participating domains by allowing local policies to vary but imposing restrictions to ensure overall coherence of the system. This paper describ...

Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Interregional Relations between the European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nations