The Worden Report
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Integrity in the Job-Description of a US Senator: On the Role of the Senate's Design and Purposes

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Micheal Bennet, who represented Colorado as a U.S. Senator, told a journalist in 2009 that the possibility of losing his seat  in 2010 shou...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell: Vor zwanzige Jahre ist die Mauer gefallen

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It was a gray rainy Monday in Berlin, yet the sun was shining for those in Europe who are celebrating the fall of the iron curtain.   Twent...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Is Corporate Social Responsibility the Same as Business Ethics?

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is typically thought to be a topic in the field of business ethics. If a company is socially responsi...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Institutional Conflicts of Interest

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Although conflicts of interest do not inevitably lead to unethical conduct, they raise the probability that it will occur. Just as a torna...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Nationalism in Europe: Forestalling Ever Closer Union

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Ask a European if the E.U. government could ever consolidate power from the state governments and you would probably get, Nope, we identit...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Health-Care Insurance Reform: A Spectrum of Alternatives with Respect to Federalism

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So not to work at cross-purposes, public policy at the federal level of a federal republic should not be at odds with federalism. Put anoth...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Conflicts of Interest: A Kantian Explanation

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In a conflict of interest, either two duties conflict or a duty conflicts with self-interest—whether the “self” be an individual or an ass...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Consolidation of Power in the American and Roman Empires: On the Rise and Fall of Empires

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The American federal government was for at least a century, and perhaps even longer, primarily involved in defending the new empire and r...

On Term Limits & Representation in the U.S.: The Anti-Federalist View

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In the New York convention for ratifying the U.S. Constitution, Melancton Smith favored having the state legislatures rotating their U.S. ...
Friday, October 9, 2009

The European Council and the U.S. Senate: Intergovernmental Institutions in Modern Federalism

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As part of comparing the U.S. and E.U., pointing to similarities between the U.S. Senate (especially as originally designed) and the Europ...
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