And that is precisely the problem, said Troy Duster, a professor of sociology and bioethics at New York University, who argues that studies examine not the remorseless and rapacious behavior of the rich and powerful, but the behavior of disadvantaged minorities.
It is hard to argue that the "rule of law" that is supposed to impartially govern all of us is credible when the felonious behavior of the wealthy and powerful suffer little consequences when the "law of the rulers" prevails.
A highly theoretically-focused and current project, it provides a consistent methodological and analytic approach that uses election study data and primary sources to offer a complete and cogent picture of this complex phenomenon as can only found by examining the attitudes and behaviors of the most powerful of democratic participants: the voters.
Millions of Britons were justifiably outraged over last year's serial revelations of illegal and unethical behavior by the powerful and influential tabloid press in Britain.
For more general channel schemes, and more elaborate stochastic processes in general, the identification of the relative quantitative importance of different transitions or edges to the observable behavior of the system is a powerful new tool for principled complexity reduction.
Butterfield experienced what all aides do, eventually, if they have the constant access; he was witness to the unguarded and, in Nixon's case, the most unattractive behavior of a powerful man.
But the sheer number of women in France currently going public with the details of their unwanted sexual encounters makes clear that the private behavior of powerful men — or, for that matter, less-powerful men — did not necessarily change.
The German government, stung by the behavior of its most powerful ally, angrily demanded an explanation.
Why? Power offers protective armor against the treacherous behavior of your opponents; the powerful are not easily manipulated.
