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Jim Crow in New York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
More than 108,000 New Yorkers cannot vote because of a conviction in their past. Almost half of these disenfranchised citizens have completed their prison sentence and are living and working in the ...
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.   +3 more
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal decentralization : a political economy perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper surveys recent contributions to the study of fiscal decentralization which adopt a political economy approach. It is argued that this approach can capture, in a variety of formal models, the plausible and influential ideas (increasingly ...
Lockwood, Ben
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What Is Behind the Property Rights Debate? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council\u27 obviously presents issues that range far more broadly than just whether people should be allowed to build on beaches and dunes.
Humbach, John A.
core   +3 more sources

Algorithmic Governance: Experimental Evidence on Citizens' and Public Administrators' Legitimacy Perceptions of Automated Decision‐Making

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates legitimacy perceptions of automated decision‐making (ADM) among public administrators and citizens. Views of public administrators, who exercise discretion over policy implementation, reflect readiness to integrate AI into decision‐making.
Jaakko Hillo, Isak Vento, Tero Erkkilä
wiley   +1 more source

Benjamin Franklin and the birth of a paper money economy [PDF]

open access: yes
This publication, an essay based on a lecture presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia by Professor Farley Grubb of the University of Delaware, tells readers about Benjamin Franklin’s role in the debate about devising a system of paper money
Farley Grubb
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Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article pursues two objectives. First, it aims to trace the genealogy of data protection regulation in major liberal democracies. To do so, it examines the evolution of this regulation in the United States, France, and Germany, among others, and relies on the policy actors' triangle framework.
Nicolas Bocquet
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Records in Historical Research on Criminal Law. Criminal Records on Male Homosexuality in Paris in the 18th Century

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2002
Historians traditionally view records, i.e. texts of Modern History handed down in series, as the most reliable and frequently only database for elucidating the genesis of exercise of power in bureaucratic contexts.
Angela Taeger
doaj  

Female Education and Child Marriage

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
wiley   +1 more source

Unconventional Fiscal Policies in Response to Inflation: The Iberian Exception in Portugal

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The surge in Eurozone inflation in 2022 compelled European governments to implement unconventional fiscal policies. One initiative, the Iberian Exception, imposed a cap on the cost of natural gas used for electricity generation in Portugal and Spain.
Lourenço Cerdeira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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