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Democracy, Representation and Local Governance in Crisis: Reflections on the 2026 Tower Hamlets Elections

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a practitioner‐scholar reflection on the 2026 Tower Hamlets local elections, in which the Aspire party secured thirty‐three of forty‐five council seats, the Labour Party was reduced to five and the Green Party emerged as an equal opposition force.
Gulay Icoz
wiley   +1 more source

Objects of Verification of the Constitutionality of Legal Acts in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania

Teisė, 2020
This article analyzes the objects of verification of the constitutionality of legal acts in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. This article aims to reveal the development of the official constitutional doctrine of the Constitutional ...
Dovilė Pūraitė-Andrikienė
doaj   +1 more source

‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Межі конституційного контролю у провадженнях за конституційними поданнями та конституційними скаргами: теоретичні аспекти

Теорія і практика правознавства, 2018
У статті порушено питання, пов’язані із з’ясуванням актуальних меж повноважень Конституційного Суду України у провадженнях за конституційними поданнями та конституційними скаргами, дослідженням уже нечинного законодавчого механізму виходу за межі ...
Олександр Миколайович Литвинов, Віктор Валерійович Богуш   +1 more
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Child Health Challenges, Ecosystem Mismatches, and the Case for State‐Level Policy Innovation

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points From 2011‐2023, US children's health deteriorated across >170 indicators. Chronic conditions rose from 25.8% to 31%, risk of anxiety tripled, and autism and learning disability more than doubled. Policies based on biomedical models have failed to address these trends.
NEAL HALFON, SHIRLEY RUSS
wiley   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Сonstitutional legal proceedings in the human rights mechanism: features of the legal regulation of the subject and criteria for the admissibility of a constitutional complaint

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. Introduction. Constitutional legal proceedings occupy a special place in the human rights mechanism. The place of constitutional justice in the system of the human rights mechanism is due to the fact that the legal relations that make up ...
V. I. Zhukovsky, N. V. Dovgolyuk
doaj   +1 more source

Constitutional Complaint as Strengthening Constitutionalism in Indonesia

Randwick International of Social Science Journal, 2020
The inclusion of human rights in the constitution gives a new status for these rights to become constitutional rights. The guarantee of human rights in the constitution has not been in line with legal efforts to protect these rights. Mechanisms constitutional  review in Indonesia only accommodates the testing effort constitutionality of Law (judicial ...
openaire   +2 more sources