Show Me the Money! Identity Fraud Losses, Capacity to Act, and Victims’ Efforts for Reimbursement

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Johan van Wilsem ◽  
Take Sipma ◽  
Esther Meijer-van Leijsen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Fraud ◽  
Capacity To Act

Engaging the White Possessive

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
New Work ◽  
White People ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Identity Fraud ◽  
Power Property ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Drag Queens

In this issue of Kalfou, my book The White Possessive: Power, Property, and Indigenous Sovereignty receives attention from three scholars whose work I admire and respect. George Lipsitz’s The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics was seminal in conceptualizing the possessive logics of patriarchal white sovereignty, while Fiona Nicoll’s From Diggers to Drag Queens: Configurations of Australian National Identity heavily influenced my work on the formation of white national identity. Kim TallBear’s Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science has been instructive in shaping my new work on the possessive racial logics of Indigenous identity fraud. I am honored they ha

Freedom and Practical Judgement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Owens
Keyword(s):  
Standard View ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
Capacity To Act

This chapter develops an intellectualist view of practical freedom according to which practical freedom is a capacity to act on our view of what we ought to do. This view is embodied in a judgement rather than in a belief about what we ought to do. Practical judgement is to be distinguished both from other truth-directed phenomena like believing and guessing and also from non-truth-directed states like imagining and intending. We make practical judgements where we are ignorant of what to do. We also make and act on such judgements where we think we know what to do. This fact suggests a non-standard view of the value of knowledge. It also enables us to defend an intellectualist account of freedom against voluntaristic alternatives.

scholarly journals Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA M. KINANE
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Presidential Appointments ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Legislative Approval

Scholarship on separation of powers assumes executives are constrained by legislative approval when placing agents in top policy-making positions. But presidents frequently fill vacancies in agency leadership with unconfirmed, temporary officials or leave them empty entirely. I develop a novel dataset of vacancies across 15 executive departments from 1977 to 2016 and reevaluate the conventional perspective that appointment power operates only through formal channels. I argue that presidents’ nomination strategies include leaving positions empty and making interim appointments, and this choice reflects presidents’ priorities and the character of vacant positions. The evidence indicates that interim appointees are more likely when positions have a substantial capacity to act on presidential expansion priorities and suggest that presidents can capitalize on their first-mover advantage to evade Senate confirmation. The results further suggest that separation of powers models may need to consider how deliberate inaction and sidestepping of formal powers influence political control and policy-making strategies.

scholarly journals Presence Energy, the Main Goal of the Actor's Training

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-457
Author(s):  
Nicola Camurri ◽  
Christian Zecca
Keyword(s):  
Capacity To Act ◽  
Series Of Experiments

Abstract: What is charisma? What is that attracts viewer's attention? What characterizes the capacity to act? These questions challenged many people. Following the suggestion made by those questions, we provided a series of experiments aimed to prove the existence of a Presence Energy that, by means of training and rehearsal, is able to change the proprioception of the trained person and his power of observation. It is not a coincidence that many authors and researchers tried to deepen the connection with mysticism and faith. This Presence Energy's existence interested lots of aspect above the theatrical one: it could become a path for charisma and awareness.

Building the Capacity to Act Regionally

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenore Alpert ◽  
Juliet F. Gainsborough ◽  
Allan Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Capacity To Act

Claiming Autonomy through Agency in a Patriarchal Structure

Hawwa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
Fulera Issaka-Toure
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Capacity To Act

The Muslim marriage in Ghana is a hierarchical relationship which entails an authority and a subordinate. Husbands are the authorities while wives are the subordinates. The former has more power while the latter acts on the dictates of the former. Such is the structure of Muslim marriages at least at the theoretical level. Husbands are superior and wives are subordinates. However being subordinate does not imply one loses one’s capacity to act and decide for one’s own being. In this paper I would show through empirical research that the supposed subordinate and subservient Muslim wife alters the strand in search of autonomy.

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