This paper examines the import and nature of the autonomy principle as applied to documentary letters of credit and other payment instruments. It argues that, while autonomy appears to have developed a degree of normativity, it is not a mandatory principle, but rather one that is subject in some...

The purpose of our proposed battery of questions was two-fold. First, we wanted to introduce an alternative measure of issue salience: one based on rankings rather than ratings. The goal here is to identify the relative importance of issues to voters, something that can be lost with Likert-type...