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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

What Makes for More or Less Powerful Constitutional Courts? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is sometimes suggested that one or another constitutional or supreme court (for example, the U.S., Indian, or German) is the “most powerful in the world.” And yet it is often far from clear what the measure of power is or should be, what the sources ...
Gardbaum, Stephen
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Tafsir Konstitusional atas Kemandirian Penyelenggara Pemilu dan Pilkada

open access: yesJurnal Konstitusi, 2019
Pemilu yang adil dan kredibel hanya dapat direalisasikan jika dikelola oleh badan independen. Konstitusi menyatakan bahwa pemilihan dilakukan oleh badan penyelenggara yang mandiri tanpa menjelaskan lebih lanjut makna kemandirian tersebut. Melalui metode
Alboin Pasaribu
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Constitutionality of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In 1996, Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC). A court of deportation, the ATRC provides the U.S. attorney general a forum to remove expeditiously any resident alien who the attorney general has probable cause to believe is a ...
Niles, John Dorsett
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Rule of Law and Judicial Independence in Albania

open access: yesUniversity of Bologna Law Review, 2017
We know the importance that the rule of law has for our society, our democracy, and the kind of civilization we want, but we rarely take the time to think about what the components of the rule of law are and how we ensure that the rule of law is ...
Brunilda Bara, Jonad Bara
doaj   +1 more source

How \u3ci\u3eNFIB v. Sebelius\u3c/i\u3e Affects the Constitutional Gestalt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The thesis of this essay is that the most important legal effects of the Supreme Court\u27s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius are likely to be indirect. Sebelius marks a possible shift in what we can call the “constitutional gestalt” regarding the meaning and
Solum, Lawrence B.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

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