A multidominance (MD) structure is a structure where at least one node has more than one mother node. Sentences that involve Right-Node Raising (RNR), like (1), have been proposed to have an MD representation in (2), where the object DP an article on Barack Obama is simultaneously dominated by two mother nodes: VP1 and VP2 (Bachrach and Katzir 2006; Levine 1985; McCawley 1982; McCloskey 1986; M...

Francis Collins had an impressive track record as a gene hunter (cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington’s disease) when he was appointed Director of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 1993. In June 2000, together with Craig Venter and President Bill Clinton, he presented the draft version of the human genome sequence to a worldwide audience during a famous press conference. And in 2009, ...

We document the relationship between distributional preferences and voting decisions in a large and diverse sample of Americans. Using a generalized dictator game, we generate individual-level measures of fair-mindedness (weight on oneself versus others) and equality-efficiency tradeoffs. Subjects' equality-efficiency tradeoffs predict their political decisions: equality-focused subjects are mo...

Precision medicine in oncology has been a popular topic of discussion in the health-care field since US President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative at his 2015 State of the Union address. Precision medicine is focused on identifying which therapies are most effective for individual patients based on the genetic characterization of their cancer [1-3]. Since the late 1990s,...

Senator Barack Obama has proposed having a public plan available to those seeking coverage in a purchasing arrangement, such as the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. Senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards had similar proposals. In the academic world, Jacob Hacker of Yale University has articulated the same proposal in his Health Care for Americans plan.2 Likewise, the reform approach w...

The 2008 election and first two years of President Barack Obama’s administration was the context for an analysis of AARP news coverage. This research examined how news coverage was presented in the AARP Bulletin. During the health care debate, AARP often mentioned President Obama over congressional leaders. However, after passage of the law and subsequent election of a new congress, the Republi...

Literatürde genel kabul gördüğü üzere Türkiye ile Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (ABD) arasındaki ittifak ilişkileri, 1950’li yıllardan itibaren başlamıştır. Soğuk Savaş Dönemi’nde yaşanan SSCB merkezli güvenlik tehdidi ise bu ittifakın temel çıkış noktasını ve devamlılığını sağlayan unsur olmuştur. Savaş’ın sona ermesinden sonra da aktörler arasında devam eden söz konusu ilişkisi, süreç içerisind...

In The Particularistic President we challenge the dominant paradigm asserting presidential universalism. Instead, we argue that presidents possess strong electoral and partisan incentives to pursue policies that prioritize the needs of some Americans over those of others. In this article, we review our larger argument and expand upon our analyses of two policy areas where presidents have unilat...