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Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines criminal defendants who waived legal representation to self‐represent in court. Through interviews with 16 participants and courtroom observations, findings reveal intersecting factors driving this decision: mental health challenges, desire for autonomy, attorney mistrust, dissatisfaction with past legal ...
Shai Farber
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the long‐term collective effects of mass human rights violations (MHRVs) on survivors’ wellbeing. This multi‐method, multi‐context paper combines the social identity approach (SIA), transitional and social justice theories and human rights‐conceptualised wellbeing to propose a human rights understanding of trauma responses ...
Blerina Kёllezi, Juliet R. H. Wakefield, Mhairi Bowe, Aurora Guxholli, Andrew Livingstone, Jolanda Jetten, Stephen Reicher   +6 more
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Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking and Changing Constitutions (2019). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 338 pages, ISBN 9780190640484

JILS (Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies), 2020
When a constitutional judge willing to spend his time to give a review to a book, it is a great sign that the book has some appeals to offer. Yet, the book that is currently will be reviewed is not only discussed by one but two constitutional judges.
Bisariyadi Bisariyadi
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Power Relations in the Preparation of the Nondiscrimination Act: The Controversial Issue of Supervising Discrimination in Working Life

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of Europeanisation and neo‐corporatism, we examine the lengthy process of revising the Nondiscrimination Act in Finland, spanning from 2007 to 2023. The focus is on the mandate of the Nondiscrimination Ombudsman in the workplace and on explaining the sudden policy change of strengthening it after a prolonged standstill.
Laura Jauhola, Kati Rantala
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of the Deployment and Departure of UN Peacekeeping Operations on Foreign Direct Investment

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do United Nations peacekeeping operations (UNPKOs) foster foreign direct investment (FDI) in host countries over time? I argue that the deployment of UNPKOs increases FDI by signaling credibility in peace and the rule of law. However, once peacekeepers depart, uncertainty regarding political stability, due to premature withdrawal and ...
Wakako Maekawa
wiley   +1 more source

Validation of an Existing Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions Scale Within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The local government workplace in post‐apartheid South Africa represents an important environment to examine employee perceptions on the occurrence of microaggressions. However, since the advent of democracy in 1994, the country has faced numerous challenges in its quest for the implementation of rights pertaining to unity, diversity ...
Marié Oosthuizen, Michel Tshiyoyo, Lianne Malan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Policy Capacities Matter for Federal Policy Design? Evidence From the Implementation of Three Social Policies in Brazil

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano, Vanessa Elias de Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Death of USAID: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump Ended America's Foreign Aid Agency

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT USAID served for decades as a vehicle for both US soft power and foreign aid. Within the first days of the Trump administration, the agency was effectively closed, its staff told to go home and its funding frozen. It is impossible to understand the demise of USAID without understanding the broader contours of American governance during the ...
Donald Moynihan, Rachael Zuppke
wiley   +1 more source

The dovish turnaround: Germany's social benefit reform and job findings

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.
Abstract On the labor markets, recent decades were characterized by structural supply‐side reforms in many countries. Following its hawkish reforms from the 2000s, Germany has recently made a dovish turnaround. Conditions in basic income support for unemployed became more generous, combined with a focus on qualification and development.
Enzo Weber
wiley   +1 more source

Menakar Konstitusionalitas Syari’at Islam dan Mahkamah Syar’iyah di Provinsi Aceh

Jurnal Konstitusi, 2019
Salah satu point penting yang diatur dalam perjanjian Helsinki terkait dengan penegakan hukum di Aceh adalah diberlakukannya Qanun dengan tujuan untuk menghormati tradisi sejarah Islam dan adat istiadat rakyat Aceh yang mayoritas muslim.
Hani Adhani
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