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Parliamentary questions, institutional change, and legislative oversight in a non‐Western context

Politics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 365-383, April 2024.
Abstract This study examines how the Federal National Council (FNC), the parliament of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), transformed from a consultative body to a legislative institution through gradual and incremental changes. It argues that the increasing number of parliamentary questions led to legal, procedural, and behavioral changes in the FNC ...
Tarek Aboelwafa, Abdulfattah Yaghi
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The “boy problem” in public policy

Politics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 70-88, February 2024.
Abstract The article investigates how gender differences in school performance are conceptualized in recent Swedish and Norwegian public commission reports against the backdrop of an increasing public focus on “problem boys” and boys' underachievement in school as a policy challenge. We found substantive country differences, despite regime similarities
Cathrine Holst, Mari Teigen
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La Vulnerabilidad Societal, El Rol de la Familia, La Teoría Integrativa de Lode Walgrave para Explicar la Delincuencia Juvenil

Justicia, 2008
¿Qué es lo que hace que un joven delinca? Algunos autores se han interesado de manera particular en el comportamiento criminal de los jóvenes exponiendo diferentes teorías que tratan de explicar dicho comportamiento.
Jeniffer Castillo Bola, Helena Morales Ortega   +1 more
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The effect of place on voting behavior: The case of the Arizona proposition to legalize recreational marijuana

Politics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 196-226, February 2024.
Abstract In 2020, Arizonans approved Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, which legalized recreational marijuana sales. Previous research has typically used non‐spatial survey data to understand marijuana legalization voting patterns. However, voting behavior can, in part, be shaped by geographic context, or place, which is unaccounted for ...
Mason Clay Mathews, A. Stewart Fotheringham   +1 more
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El “plan pistola” como crimen de lesa humanidad en contra de miembros del Ejército Nacional

Opinión Jurídica, 2019
En Colombia, durante el conflicto armado más prolongado del hemisferio occidental (en adelante, cani), fueron ejecutados a través de prácticas sicariales (ajusticiamientos en términos insurgentes) miembros del Ejército Nacional por parte de grupos ...
Jean Carlo Mejía Azuero
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Homicidas juveniles en Bogotá, estudio de grupos focales

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2015
Antecedentes. La violencia ha sido declarada un problema de salud pública mundial. En los últimos años, se ha visto un incremento alarmante de la violencia causada por adolescentes, reflejado en indicadores como el número de homicidios. Los adolescentes
Franklin Escobar-Córdoba, Ángela Rocío Acero-González, Jorge O Folino   +2 more
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Bullets and Votes: Violence and Electoral Participation in Mexico Balas y votos: Violencia y participación electoral en México

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2012
In this paper we analyze the effect of criminal violence on electoral participation in Mexico. Many scholars have studied the origins of criminal violence, as well as the success or failure of contemporary regimes in dealing with it.
Alejandro Trelles, Miguel Carreras
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Evidencias del uso político de la ciencia médica en un artículo de la prensa brasileña alusivo al presidente de Chile José Manuel Balmaceda en 1891

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Resumen En medio de la Guerra Civil ocurrida en Chile el año 1891, apareció publicado en el periódico brasileño Diário de Campinas el artículo titulado “Balmaceda”, de autoría de Joaquim Nogueira de Sá Itagiba, donde analiza el delirio del político ...
Mario Fabregat
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Integrating Deflection into Rule of Law and SDG Programming for UN Peace Operations

Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and Science
EN | Abstract: This paper contends that deflection practices are relevant strategies to enhance Rule of Law and advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in United Nations (UN) peace operations.
Nixon M. Camilien
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Evade, Corrupt, or Confront? Organized Crime and the State in Brazil and Mexico ¿Evadir, corromper o confrontar? El crimen organizado y el Estado en Brasil y México

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2009
Government and organized criminal groups co-exist in uneasy equilibrium. Criminal groups adjust their behavior as a function of their own goals and resources in relation to inter-group cooperation and conflict, dynamic markets, and public policies ...
Matthew M. Taylor, John Bailey
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