The Risks and Weaknesses of the International Criminal Court from America’s Perspective

Bolton argues the US should raise its objections to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on every appropriate occasion, as part of its larger campaign to assert American interests against stifling, illegitimate, and unacceptable international agreements. The US has many alternative foreign policy instruments to utilize that are fully consistent with US interests, leaving the ICC to the obscurity it richly deserves

Reflecting on Professor John Bolton’s LSEHSC seminar: Policy, practice and austerity

We recently held a seminar by Professor John Bolton*, JRFB Ltd and visiting Professor at the Institute of Public Care at Oxford Brookes, as part of the LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar Series. Professor Bolton’s presentation on Policy, Practice and Austerity focused on two themes: why social care’s current policy isn’t affordable; and, the examination of an emerging care model in the UK that has its roots in practice rather than academia or policy

Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government

A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of civil servants over agency decisions. These changes shape the career choices of employees motivated by policy, influence, and wages. Using new Office of Personnel Management data on the careers of millions of federal employees between 1988 and 2011, we evaluate how elections influence employee turnover decisions. We find that presidential elections increase departure rates of career senior employees, particularly in agencies with divergent views relative to the new president and at the start of presidential terms. We also find suggestive evidence that vacancies in high-level positions after elections may induce lower-level executives to stay longer in hopes of advancing. We conclude with implications of our findings for public policy, presidential politics, and public management

Spread and Growth of Newspapers in Ontario, 1781-1977

Since Louis Roy started Ontario’s first newspaper in 1793, the newspaper industry has been growing. Daily and weekly newspapers were born and either survived to the present or died at some later date. Newspapers appeared to have followed the spread of settlement throughout the province, until a saturation level was reached. After this only minor filling in occurred except in the Toronto to Hamilton region where suburban weeklies were started. The threshold population needed to support the birth of a daily or weekly appeared to fall within the 1200-2000 range and 500-1000 range respectively. The growth of newspapers was steady until the turn of the twentieth century when a decline occurred. This decline was followed by a second rise, with the birth of suburban weekly newspapers. Newspaper Chains appeared to be the force behind this second rise and the birth of the suburban weeklies

Do we have the vision to integrate our marine aquaculture?

The article focuses on the author's views on marine aquaculture in South Africa. He discussed the draft policy for the development of a sustainable aquaculture industry in South Africa released by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Statistics on African aquaculture production, geographical spread and species exploitation in acquaculture, and marine aquaculture consumption are provided. The author also gives reasons why aquaculture production is low in the country

Incompleteness of relational simulations in the blocking paradigm

Refinement is the notion of development between formal specifications For specifications given in a relational formalism downward and upward simulations are the standard method to verify that a refinement holds their usefulness based upon their soundness and joint completeness This is known to be true for total relational specifications and has been claimed to hold for partial relational specifications in both the non-blocking and blocking interpretations In this paper we show that downward and upward simulations in the blocking interpretation where domains are guards are not Jointly complete This contradicts earlier claims in the literature We illustrate this with an example (based on one recently constructed by Reeves and Streader) and then construct a proof to show why Joint completeness fails in general (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserve

New Approaches to Financing Charities and Other Social Enterprises: A Snapshot: May 2003

This paper seeks to record and explain the enormous growth in interest in the provision of loans and investment to charities and other social enterprises. It aims at capturing the UK's position in May 2003, analysing the gaps in the provision of financing, the different types of financing available at the time, and the development of new methods. Includes a bibliography