To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done.
The biggest difference between "politics of attention" and "economy of attention" is that the latter reflects a relation of supply and demand, while the former reflects a relationship of the distribution of authority, especially the competition deriving from the differentiated authority.
There are other areas where enforcement of China's laws on intellectual property is really a problem for instance, due to the distribution of authority within the Chinese system and the incentives for local leaders.
Similarly, neoclassical approaches to the distribution of authority have treated decentralization as a depoliticized question, which is reducible to the establishment of an optimal number of territorial jurisdictions.
It then considers how money, recognized as a dynamics of value, would look if the law structuring it were approached as a complex set of relations that expressed, reiterated, and revised the distribution of authority in society.
It also implicates basic issues of democratic accountability, Bradley said, as it affects both the decision-making authority that can be transferred to institutions that may lack a direct connection to the nation's citizenry, as well as the internal distribution of authority between the executive and legislative branches of the government.
It is apparent that the courts below did not respect this congressional distribution of authority.
"Our mission is to promote public health, and we are doing as much as we can under the current distribution of authority," Mr. Takakura said.
Managers at all levels should understand the role of organizational design as call centers are established or expanded, in particular the relative centralization (distribution of authority) associated with delivering services to customers.
It documents a case of institutional change which is triggered by exogenous (re design of formal institutions leading to local-level institutional design which is strongly impacted by the distribution of authority among members of the local implementation network and the objectives of each actor group.
