How will governments and courts protect civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? Ethical Hacking discusses the attendant moral and legal issues. The first part of the 21st century will likely go down in history as the era when ethical hackers opened governments and the line of transparency...

How will governments and courts protect civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? Ethical Hacking discusses the attendant moral and legal issues. The first part of the 21st century will likely go down in history as the era when ethical hackers opened governments and the line of transparency...

This paper investigates the effects of state censorship of opposition media using evidence from the closing of RCTV, a popular opposition television channel in Venezuela. The government did not renew RCTV's license, and the channel was replaced overnight, during May 2007, by a pro-government...

1. Digital shutdown -- 2. Internet and Politics -- 3. Internet and Nationalism -- 4. Social Media and Shutdown Activism -- 5. Digital Politics and Internet -- 6. Internet and Territorial sovereignty -- 7. Social Media/Media governance -- 8. Livelihood and Digital shutdown -- 9. Politics of...

This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the impact of Parliamentary immunity on the behavior and performance of politicians. Leveraging a Constitutional Amendment, the adoption of which lifted the immunity of 132 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing...

"For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western Civilization. During most of that time, "business" - and American Big Business, in particular - remained the last redoubt for those who believed in free people, free...

Der indische Ökonom und Philosoph, Nobelpreis- und Friedenspreisträger, beschreibt in sechs Lektionen, wie Gerechtigkeit in einer globalisierten Welt aussieht. Obwohl vor der Menschheit eine Herkules-Aufgabe liegt, verbreitet Amartya Sen gleichzeitig die Zuversicht, dass sie gelingen kann

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

The Japanese law "Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children"(the Child Pornography Prohibition Act) does not regulate virtual child pornography such as comics, cartoons, animation, and games. As a result, cases...

Why Ethical Hacking? -- Essential Terms and Concepts -- Methodology and Quantitative Studies of Ethical Hacking: Evidence-Based Decision and Policy-Making -- Legal Cases Around the World (with Jelena Ardalic) -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences: Anonymous -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences:...

In recent years, alongside democratic backsliding and security threats, censorship is increasingly used by governments and other societal actors to control the media. Who is likely to be affected by censorship and why? Does censorship as a form of punishment coexist with or act as a substitute...

Zu Ehren von Volker Wolff vereinigt der Band Beiträge zum Spannungsfeld des Journalismus zwischen professioneller Autonomie und der Erfüllung von Nutzwert-Funktionen. Wolff war von 1995 bis 2014 Inhaber der Professur für Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenjournalismus am Journalistischen Seminar der...

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our regressions are based on a cross section of 170...

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our regressions are based on a cross section of 170...