Saturday, July 27, 2013

Obama: Egyptian Coup? What Coup?

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In late July 2013, the Obama administration decided that it was not legally required to determine whether the Egyptian military had led a...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Financial Reform: Did Congress Shoot a Blank?

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On the third anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, former U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) penned an excellent yet concise critique of the law’...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Syria: From Protests to War

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In the midst of all of the excitement and exuberance of a political protest, the protesters themselves in Syria were probably not thinkin...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Bulgarians Appealing To the E.U.

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As a form of government that checks abuses in government, federalism can pit a state government against that of the union. In fact, sever...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Teaching Ethical Leadership

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Can ethical leadership be taught? In the typical business school, this question would be interpreted, or “refurbished.” Can students be tra...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Democracy or Force: The Case of Turkey

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The Turkish army removed four governments of Turkey in the period between 1960 and 1997. In the midst of political protests in June 2013,...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Democracy or Force: The Case of Egypt

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In early July 2013, the world was treated to a glimpse of the stark dichotomy punctuated by democracy and civic violence.  Middle-ground is...

Comparing the E.U. and U.S. in a Different Way

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  The complete essay is at  Essays on Two Federal Empires . Videos on YouTube: http://youtu.be/xinF5zjHV0Q  and  http://youtu.b...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Checks and Balances of Federalism: Hungary vs. the European Parliament

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One of the benefits of federalism is the checks and balances between the two systems of government existing in a federal system—that of t...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Banks in Trouble: European Populism?

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In reaching agreement on a proposal to deal with state banks in trouble, the E.U. finance ministers sent two messages: taxpayers would be...

Federalism and Solving the Democratic Deficit: Causing Bad E.U. Legislation?

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One major criticism of the E.U. has concerned its “democratic deficit.” The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, has taken m...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Consolidation From 1913: The Federal Reserve, Megabanks, and the U.S. Government

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In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-trust law required the break-up of Rockefeller’s mammoth Standard Oil Company, wh...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Governmental Paralysis in Illinois: Behind the Underfunded Pension Crisis

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Sometimes when a government’s fiscal matters get bad enough, dysfunction in the real power-relations at the highest level can suddenly beco...
Monday, June 17, 2013

European Federalism in E.U.-U.S. Trade Negotiations

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When U.S. President Barak Obama and the E.U. Presidents José Barroso and Herman Van Rompuy announced that talks would begin on a free tr...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Regulating Snus in the E.U.

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Should the E.U. be able to regulate sales of a product that can legally be sold only in one state? Would such regulations encroach too mu...