Governance embodies the most interesting aspects of the conflicting and unrelenting relationship between rulers and people, between citizens and institutions. The subject became particularly relevant to Latin American societies when they began the ...

This paper addresses how the development of ISO standards will act as a guiding body to provide the foundation of common understanding for environmental issues and concerns. Included in the discussion are the history and progress of ISO, its ...

It's, a subject no one wants to talk about. Crimes committed against executives in North America are unreported; no one keeps statistics, not even the FBI. As a rule, when companies are queried about their executive protection policies, mum's the ...

The framers of the Charter of the United Nations, like those of the Covenant of the League of Nations, have provided for an agency whose principal function is to apply legal techniques in the resolution of international controversies and problems. ...

Objectivity has received a bad name. This presents a special problem to the field of law, and it is a problem that argument scholars are in a position to shed some light on. Setting aside the radical Critical Legal conclusion that the only consistent ...

When the practical demands of World War II required a body of theoretical knowledge to facilitate the design of automatic weapons systems, modern control-system theory was born. Its early development was nearly explosive, for, in the beginning, a ...

The maltreatment, misuse, and neglect of children are recognized as a serious social problem in the United States. Although children have been the subject of various types of maltreatment in different historical periods, concern for maltreated ...

The political commitment to full employment is an important part of the framework within which divergent interest groups in developed market-economy countries have tried to promote economic progress with social justice. In countries with centrally ...

The process of investigation begins with the receiving of a report that a crime was committed or due to indirect evidence a criminal act has taken place. An arrest decision takes place as a result of a crime was committed, thus resulting in the ...

The world is just at the dawn of the Internet revolution, a revolution that promises both benefits and new sets of challenges, if not problems. The benefits manifest themselves in political, economic, and social dimensions. The policy challenges are ...

Whether you work for a corporation, a nonprofit organization, a public relations firm, or a government agency, chances are high your employer has--or will soon acquire--an electronic mail (e-mail) system. In 1991, e-mail users were estimated at 12 ...

Some immigrants are driven out of their homelands by war or political oppression, but most are bread-and-butter migrants hoping to trade poverty for prosperity. Foreigners unauthorized to work in the Canada can be found in restaurant kitchens, ...