The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States. By John Echeverri-Gent. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 312p. $45.00.

The Utah Board of Pardons, an executive agency, releases some Utah prison inmates by an order of "conditional termina tion," which directs the recipient to leave the state immediately and remain away permanently. The Supreme Court of Utah has recently held this order to be valid and constitutional, a ruling attacked by this article, which cites cases wherein rights guaranteed by the federal Constitution are violated. Public policy, sound penology, and constitutional law all militate against use of conditional termination.

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The competing meanings of “biopolitics” in political science: Biological and postmodern approaches to politics

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.2990/31_1-2_2 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 31 (1-2) ◽

pp. 2-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Laurette T. Liesen ◽

Mary Barbara Walsh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Political Science ◽

Annual Meeting ◽

Michel Foucault ◽

Political Behavior ◽

Life Sciences ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

American Political Science

The term “biopolitics” carries multiple, sometimes competing, meanings in political science. When the term was first used in the United States in the late 1970s, it referred to an emerging subdiscipline that incorporated the theories and data of the life sciences into the study of political behavior and public policy. But by the mid-1990s, biopolitics was adopted by postmodernist scholars at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting who followed Foucault's work in examining the power of the state on individuals. Michel Foucault first used the term biopolitics in the 1970s to denote social and political power over life. Since then, two groups of political scientists have been using this term in very different ways. This paper examines the parallel developments of the term “biopolitics,” how two subdisciplines gained (and one lost) control of the term, and what the future holds for its meaning in political science.

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National Oil Corp. v. Libyan Sun Oil Co.

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2203571 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 178-181

Author(s):

Joseph D. Pizzurro

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

District Court ◽

The Public ◽

Arbitral Award ◽

Recognition And Enforcement ◽

Foreign Assets

Petitioner, the Libyan National Oil Corp. (NOC), filed the petition to confirm an arbitral award rendered in Paris against Libyan Sun Oil Co. (LSOC), a Delaware corporation. The petition was based on the UN Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (Convention). LSOC opposed the petition on the grounds that NOC was not entitled to access to U.S. courts because of the state of relations between the United States and Libya and that the Libyan Sanctions Regulations prevented NOC from maintaining its claim in the absence of a license from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. In addition, LSOC argued that confirmation of the award should be denied under various provisions of the Convention, including the “public policy” defense embodied in Article V(2)(b). The district court (per Latchum, J.) held that NOC had standing to bring the petitión and that the defenses set forth in the Convention were inapplicable. The award was thus confirmed.

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The competing meanings of “biopolitics” in political science: Biological and postmodern approaches to politics

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0730938400014222 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 31 (1-2) ◽

pp. 2-15

Author(s):

Laurette T. Liesen ◽

Mary Barbara Walsh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Political Science ◽

Annual Meeting ◽

Michel Foucault ◽

Political Behavior ◽

Life Sciences ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

American Political Science

The term “biopolitics” carries multiple, sometimes competing, meanings in political science. When the term was first used in the United States in the late 1970s, it referred to an emerging subdiscipline that incorporated the theories and data of the life sciences into the study of political behavior and public policy. But by the mid-1990s, biopolitics was adopted by postmodernist scholars at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting who followed Foucault's work in examining the power of the state on individuals. Michel Foucault first used the term biopolitics in the 1970s to denote social and political power over life. Since then, two groups of political scientists have been using this term in very different ways. This paper examines the parallel developments of the term “biopolitics,” how two subdisciplines gained (and one lost) control of the term, and what the future holds for its meaning in political science.

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Data Breach Disclosure

Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-245-0.ch011 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 226-252

Author(s):

Melissa Dark

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Current Data ◽

The State ◽

Data Breach ◽

State Laws ◽

State Data ◽

Disclosure Laws

As information technology has become more ubiquitous and pervasive, assurance and security concerns have escalated; in response, we have seen noticeable growth in public policy aimed at bolstering cybertrust. With this growth in public policy, questions regarding the effectiveness of these policies arise. This chapter focuses on policy analysis of the state data breach disclosure laws recently enacted in the United States. The state data breach disclosure laws were chosen for policy analysis for three reasons: the rapid policy growth (the United States have enacted 45 state laws in 6 years); this is the first instantiation of informational regulation for information security; and the importance of these laws to identity theft and privacy. The chapter begins with a brief history in order to provide context. Then, this chapter examines the way in which historical, political and institutional factors have shaped our current data breach disclosure policies, focusing on discovering how patterns of interaction influenced the legislative outcomes we see today. Finally, this chapter considers: action that may result from these policies; the action type(s) being targeted; alternatives that are being considered, and; potential outcomes of the existing and proposed alternative policies.

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