Privacy in Europe Suffers in Terror War

The editor of the New York Times has claimed for his part that government surveillance programs are effectively out of control. American

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Hybrid Institutions and the Law: Interface Solutions or Outlaw Arrangements?

Much discussion of law and e-commerce focuses on the extent to which e-commerce and the Internet weaken sovereign states’ effective control. Recently, in e-commerce, there has been a trend towards “hybrid institutions” which blend public oversight and private enforcement in the international arena. Do these institutions reflect the weakening of state legal orders, and the ...
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Breaking the Path of Institutional Development: Alternatives to the New Determinism in Political Economy

The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting for, or predicting, change. However, the original Polya urn model from which pathdependence theory draws predicts that alternative paths will be possible. It can then be argued that actors will ...
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