Agreement And Its Failures

Author : Omer Preminger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262027403

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Agreement and Its Failures by Omer Preminger Pdf

A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates how the obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement is enforced by the grammar. Preminger argues that an empirically adequate theory of predicate-argument agreement requires recourse to an operation, whose obligatoriness is a grammatical primitive not reducible to representational properties, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar. Preminger's argument counters contemporary approaches that find the obligatoriness of predicate-argument agreement enforced through representational means. The most prominent of these is Chomsky's “interpretability”-based proposal, in which the obligatoriness of predicate-argument agreement is enforced through derivational time bombs. Preminger presents an empirical argument against contemporary approaches that seek to derive the obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement exclusively from derivational time bombs. He offers instead an alternative account based on the notion of obligatory operations better suited to the facts. The crucial data involves utterances that inescapably involve attempted-but-failed agreement and are nonetheless fully grammatical. Preminger combines a detailed empirical investigation of agreement phenomena in the Kichean (Mayan) languages, Zulu (Bantu), Basque, Icelandic, and French with an extensive and rigorous theoretical exploration of the far-reaching consequences of these data. The result is a novel proposal that has profound implications for the formalism that the theory of grammar uses to derive obligatory processes and properties.

Author : Loren R. Cass
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791481172

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The Failures of American and European Climate Policy by Loren R. Cass Pdf

In this timely work, Loren R. Cass argues that international norms and normative debates provide the keys to understanding the evolution of both domestic and international responses to the threat of global climate change. Ranging from the early identification and framing of this problem in the mid 1980s through the Kyoto Protocol's entry into force in 2005, Cass focuses on two normative debates that were critical to the development of climate policy—who should bear primary responsibility for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and what principles would guide these reductions. He examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments, and concludes that while many states affirmed the international norms, most did not fully translate them into domestic policy. Cass offers an index to measure the domestic salience of international norms and compare the level of salience across states and within states over time, and uses it to assess the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Author : Linda J. Cook
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674828003

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The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed by Linda J. Cook Pdf

This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.

Author : Zaryab Iqbal,Harvey Starr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796910

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State Failure in the Modern World by Zaryab Iqbal,Harvey Starr Pdf

State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World War II state system—including what state failure means, its causes, what accounts for its duration, its consequences, and its implications. Among the questions the book addresses are: when and why state failure occurs, why it recurs in any single state, and when and why its consequences spread to other states. The book sets out the array of problems in previous work on state failure with respect to conceptualization and definition, as well as how the causes and consequences of state failure have been addressed, and presents analyses to deal with these problems. Any analysis of state failure can be seen as an exercise in policy evaluation; this book undertakes the theoretical, conceptual, and analytic work that must be done before we can evaluate—or have much confidence in—both current and proposed policy prescriptions to prevent or manage state collapse.

Author : Charles Woolfson,Matthais Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351845229

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Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry by Charles Woolfson,Matthais Beck Pdf

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative. The volume spans the industry's reach, from the troubled waters of the UK offshore Continental Shelf, with its horrendous legacy of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, to the inhospitable shores of Newfoundland with its own tragic legacy of lost lives; to the new frontier of oil corporate colonialism in the former Soviet Union and the icy plains of Alaska. The central theme of violations of basic labour rights and of health and environmental protection standards will make uncomfortable reading in the boardroom. It is equally essential reading for those who seek to improve the position of workers and industries within the oil industry's global reach.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Federal aid to energy development
ISBN : MINN:31951D036705673

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The Solyndra Failure by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : P M Butchard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509930814

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The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council by P M Butchard Pdf

What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council. This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security Council. It argues that the Security Council's responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and its responsibility to protect, do not die with its own failures. Other actors can and must take up responsibility to save those in need. In a persuasive and detailed examination of the legal framework, this research identifies options for coercive measures to be taken beyond the Council that could be used to break the deadlock, including through the General Assembly and regional organisations. It provides a must-have resource for students, academics, and researchers on key principles of international law. It also offers insight for governments, policy-makers, and other international actors on how they can uphold their legal responsibilities, maintain peace and security, and prevent their failures from undermining the very existence of the UN itself.

Author : Thomas H. Jackson,Kenneth E. Scott
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817918866

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Making Failure Feasible by Thomas H. Jackson,Kenneth E. Scott Pdf

In 2012, building off work first published in 2010, the Resolution Project proposed that a new Chapter 14 be added to the Bankruptcy Code, exclusively designed to deal with the reorganization or liquidation of the nation's large financial institutions. In this book, the contributors expand on their proposal to improve the prospect that our largest financial institutions—particularly with prebankruptcy planning—could be successfully reorganized or liquidated pursuant to the rule of law and, in doing so, both make resolution planning pursuant to Title I of Dodd-Frank more fruitful and make reliance on administrative proceedings pursuant to Title II of Dodd-Frank largely unnecessary.

Author : Elke Grawert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010223

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After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan by Elke Grawert Pdf

The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agreement on different Sudanese communities and neighbouring regions. After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initialhopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. This book compiles scholarly analyses of the implementation of the power sharing agreement of the CPA, of ongoing conflicts with particular respect to land issues, of the challenges of the reintegration of internally displaced people and refugees, and of the repercussions of the CPA in other regions of Sudan as well as in neighbouring countries. Elke Grawert is SeniorLecturer at the Institute for Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany.

Author : Noel Lenski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283893

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Failure of Empire by Noel Lenski Pdf

Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.

Author : Guy Ben-Porat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230582637

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The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process? by Guy Ben-Porat Pdf

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace. It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes - in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine - and provides historical and comparative perspectives on the failure of the Middle East peace process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bank loans
ISBN : PSU:000017579018

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The Role of Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro in Financing Iraq, the Failure of the Federal Reserve Under the Federal "umbrella" Bank Regulatory Structure, and Interference by the State of Illinois by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PURD:32754076771694

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System Failure by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Charles Brecher,Raymond D. Horton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195044270

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Power Failure by Charles Brecher,Raymond D. Horton Pdf

They examine the operation of the Office of the Mayor and the City Council, covering everything from the number of members and their annual salaries (Council Members receive $55,000 per year, the Council President $105,000) to the mayoral races of John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and Edward I. Koch. Much of this encyclopedic work focuses on New York's ever-present financial woes, including the financial crisis of the mid-1970s, when the City had an unaudited deficit of over a billion dollars and the public credit markets closed their doors.

Author : ASM International,Steve Lampman
Publisher : ASM International
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781615030736

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Characterization and Failure Analysis of Plastics by ASM International,Steve Lampman Pdf

The selection and application of engineered materials is an integrated process that requires an understanding of the interaction between materials properties, manufacturing characteristics, design considerations, and the total life cycle of the product. This reference book on engineering plastics provides practical and comprehensive coverage on how the performance of plastics is characterized during design, property testing, and failure analysis. The fundamental structure and properties of plastics are reviewed for general reference, and detailed articles describe the important design factors, properties, and failure mechanisms of plastics. The effects of composition, processing, and structure are detailed in articles on the physical, chemical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Other articles cover failure mechanisms such as: crazing and fracture; impact loading; fatigue failure; wear failures, moisture related failure; organic chemical related failure; photolytic degradation; and microbial degradation. Characterization of plastics in failure analysis is described with additional articles on analysis of structure, surface analysis, and fractography.