Shadow of dissent

The Dissent over Dissent Over Descent

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Forms of Dissent

To Dissent or not to Dissent? Informative Dissent and Parliamentary Governance

Legislative dissent occurs frequently in most parliamentary systems despite its potential detrimental effects on both party and legislator, i.e., legislators depend on their party label for re-election, whose value in turn depends in part on the party’s ability to appear cohesive. Commonly dissent has been attributed to ‘extreme’ preferences. I provide an informational rationale for dissent. Di...

Legal aspects of Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking system, as an investment method, while being an integral part of the supervised banking system, is a rival for banks and governance institutions in financing and oversight. As a result, its development has created a situation for regulated institutions, which leads to concerns about the legal and regulatory responsibilities of the banking and financial system for investment not g...

Why conservation needs dissent.

M. NILS PETERSON,∗ MARKUS J. PETERSON,† AND TARLA RAI PETERSON‡ ∗Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2258, U.S.A. ‡Department of Communication, Program in Peace & Confl...