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Duke Law

2006

Political aspects

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Against Individually Signed Judicial Opinions, James Markham Dec 2006

Against Individually Signed Judicial Opinions, James Markham

Duke Law Journal

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Getting The Haves To Come Out Behind: Fixing The Distributive Injustices Of American Health Care, David A. Hyman Oct 2006

Getting The Haves To Come Out Behind: Fixing The Distributive Injustices Of American Health Care, David A. Hyman

Law and Contemporary Problems

Hyman criticizes an article by Havighurst and Richman regarding the distributive injustices of US health care. Hyman also offers a guide for implementing policy reforms based on the analysis by Havighurst and Richman.

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The Political Economy Of Unfairness In U.S. Health Policy, Jonathan Oberlander Oct 2006

The Political Economy Of Unfairness In U.S. Health Policy, Jonathan Oberlander

Law and Contemporary Problems

Oberlander discusses the political economy of unfairness in US health policy by first highlighting the moral issues raised by the US's system of financing medical care and then by analyzing the political dynamics that sustain that system.

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Horizontal Political Externalities: The Supply And Demand Of Disaster Management, Ben Depoorter Oct 2006

Horizontal Political Externalities: The Supply And Demand Of Disaster Management, Ben Depoorter

Duke Law Journal

This Article discusses the dynamics of shared political accountability and provides a supply- and demand-side analysis of disaster management. Because multiple levels of government share political accountability in national scale disasters, disaster management is subject to a collective action problem. Introducing the concept of horizontal political externalities, this Article explains the shortcomings of disaster management in terms of asymmetric political accountability costs for ex ante preparedness and ex post relief. In the presence of shared accountability, investments in prevention and relief by one government actor confer positive externalities upon other government actors by reducing the overall chance of being held …

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Terrorism Is The World’S Problem, Nabil Fahmy Apr 2006

Terrorism Is The World’S Problem, Nabil Fahmy

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

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