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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Medicines availability in Ecuador's public system (2015-2024): a policy design analysis of financing, public procurement, and governance. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Hernández-Luis A, Fontaine G, Morales JL.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Nature Need Rights? [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Weis LK, Mullins R.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Children in South Asia deserve better: a call for a South Asian child rights Manifesto. [PDF]

BMJ Paediatr Open
Muhammad T, Seth R, Zafar N, Mehnaz A, Srivastava R, Raman S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
wiley   +1 more source

Christian nationalism, race, and contingent support for law enforcement: Results from two survey experiments

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Research in the United States shows a strong link between right‐wing Christianity and support for law enforcement. Yet, it remains unclear whether this support extends uniformly across contexts, which has important implications for our understanding of public attitudes about police. Integrating insights from group identity theory with research
Christopher H. Seto, Popy Begum, Darci K. Schmidgall, Samuel L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging choice: a media study of anti-abortion movements in India. [PDF]

Sex Reprod Health Matters
Bordoloi R, Jayaprakasan V, Pyne S, Barua A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source