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ABSTRACT This study compares the political responses of the Republic of Korea and the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the issue of Japanese military “comfort women.” While existing research has primarily examined victims' human rights, Japan's postwar responsibility, and Korea–Japan diplomatic disputes, it has overlooked why two nations with comparable ...
Kyounghee Cho, Siyao Xing
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Introduction: Current Directions in Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora. [PDF]
Westmont VC, Clay E.
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Monumental Questions: 1860s Civil War Monument Vandalization at Manassas
On October 4, 2017, I awoke to the news that the Stonewall Jackson equestrian monument at Manassas National Battlefield Park had been vandalized. Having worked there as a Pohanka intern during the summer of 2016, I was saddened to hear this.
Bilger, Ryan
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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The epidemiology of attacks on statues: New Zealand as a case study. [PDF]
Wilson N, Jones AC, Teng A, Thomson G.
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Monuments Ought to be Considered Case by Case
In a press conference last week President Donald Trump made this contribution to the escalating debate about monuments and memorials to American heroes who, by today’s reckoning, failed a moral test.
Birkner, Michael J.
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Practice Without Theory? The Wonder of Bethpage Black
ABSTRACT Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
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Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement
ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin +4 more
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Recasting Monumentality: Performances of Public Protest at Confederate Monuments [PDF]
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