Power Shift, Part 2: Judicial Review
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of…
Part 3: Pathbreaking Conceptual Framework, Three examples
Path dependencies and punctuated equilibriums can come in a variety of settings, ranging from the policy issues that True, et al. (2007) discussed, to war and other catastrophic events, to deliberate strategy. Sometimes, two or more of these situations work…
Part 2: The Conceptual Framework
Equilibriums are interesting. They seem to fly in the face of the Second Law of thermodynamics, which states that systems move from a state of order to a state of chaos. This process is called entropy. But the word equilibrium…