integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

The authority to exercise the rights and powers of the individual is a fundamental component of all health information privacy regimes. Legislative entitlements are meaningless without the ability to exercise rights or powers. Substitute or surrogate decision-making is a crucial issue not only for the individuals who are relying on surrogates, but also for the persons who are acting on behalf o...

Five experiments demonstrate that experiencing power leads to overconfident decision-making. Using multiple instantiations of power, including an episodic recall task (Experiments 1–3), a measure of work-related power (Experiment 4), and assignment to highand low-power roles (Experiment 5), power produced overconfident decisions that generated monetary losses for the powerful. The current findi...

The authors in this issue seek to sketch and analyze the practice of various functions within the international criminal-prosecution process, in particular the functions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As part of this project, I focus on the ICC’s practice of investigation. I identify the challenges that ICC investigations face, and then articulate what can realistically be expected ...

We build a simple model to capture the major virtues and drawbacks of making public officials accountable (i.e., subjecting them to reelection): On the one hand, accountablity allows the public to screen and discipline their officials; on the other, it may induce those officials to pander to public opinion and put too little weight on minority welfare. We study when decision-making powers shoul...