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Rent control, rent overcharge, and racial disparity
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Rent control policies have gained renewed legislative momentum in the United States, but are rent‐regulated landlords adhering to these policies? Answering this question is critical to understanding the policy's impact. Using a unique panel data set from the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS), we investigate noncompliance with ...
Brent W. Ambrose +3 more
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts [PDF]
, 2014 What is the nature of the “rights,” jurisprudentially, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act legally prescribed? And, more generally, what is a “civil right”?
West, Robin
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Pharmacological treatment is an important component in the multimodal management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but contemporary trends in ADHD medication use among boys and girls in Denmark have not been fully characterized.
Maria Højgaard Stoltz‐Andersen +4 more
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The Legal Regulation of Private Conduct at Athens: Two Controversies on Freedom [PDF]
, 2007 Despite the Athenians’ pronounced ideology of personal freedom (“living as you like”), many scholars deny that they enjoyed either positive freedoms (in particular to speak free of interruption in the Assembly) or negative freedoms, where the state ...
Wallace, Robert W.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate +3 more
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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Investigative journalism, access to information, protection of sources and whistleblowers [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter focusses on the case law by the ECtHR on (1) the protection of acts of newsgathering and investigative journalism, (2) the right of access to official documents, (3) the protection of journalistic sources, and (4) the protection of whistle ...
Voorhoof, Dirk
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract When elected officials gain power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect policy? The answer informs debates over how legislator capacity, term limits, and institutional positions affect legislator behavior. We distinguish two countervailing effects of increased institutional power: shifting priorities and increased ...
Devin Judge‐Lord +2 more
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