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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Can Nationalism Be Democratic?

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nationalism and democracy are often presented as natural allies: National self‐determination is best achieved through democratic institutions, while a shared national identity generates the trust and willingness to compromise that stable democracies need. This article, however, explores two possible points of conflict. The first concerns rival
David Miller
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Nationalism and the Crisis of Statehood in Ethiopia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that ethnic conflict in multinational states is shaped less by institutional design than by rival nationalist interests competing within a common state. Focusing on Ethiopia, the article draws on comparatively informed insights, original interviews and organisational and media reports to examine how competition among elites
Tadesse Melaku Asfaw
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The submission of rap lyrics as inculpatory evidence (Rap on Trial) is an active prosecution tactic deployed in United States criminal trials. In this paper, I argue that interpretive ambiguity in rap lyrics is exploited in Rap on Trial cases, constituting a novel form of discursive injustice: extractive discursive injustice.
K. M. Crandall
wiley   +1 more source

Do's and Don'ts in Peace Negotiations: Learning From the Arab‐Israeli Peace Negotiations

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article suggests practical information on the requirements for successful negotiations. Building on extensive research in archives and more than 100 in‐depth interviews with senior decision‐makers and negotiators who were involved in the Arab‐Israeli conflict, the article outlines the basic qualities that negotiators, mediators, and ...
Raphael Cohen‐Almagor
wiley   +1 more source

The Conflict between Mining Law and Anti-Corruption Law in Indonesia’s Extractive Sector: A Study of Legal Justification and Judicial Reasoning

Volksgeist
Corruption in Indonesia’s extractive industry has generated significant state revenue losses, regulatory distortions, and environmental harm. A key legal issue arises from the concurrent use of the Anti-Corruption Law and the Mineral and Coal Mining Law
Marolop Pandiangan, Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, Febby Mutiara Nelson   +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Democratic Administration

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, many countries have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace civil service personnel. We argue that this practice undermines core democratic values. Using the public values framework, we identify four clusters of values that are threatened when bureaucratic discretion is transferred to ...
L. Jason Anastasopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Traceability as evidence for timber legality: Institutional competence and legal design under the ITTA

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how traceability records acquire legal significance under the International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA) and domestic and regional timber‐legality regimes. It argues that traceability systems should be understood as evidentiary infrastructures whose legal relevance depends on institutional competence, lawful authority
Marcelo Feitosa de Paula Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing the role of ‘security’ in EU energy and agri‐food law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract In EU energy and agri‐food law, ‘security’ is constantly invoked to justify legal action and to guide the adoption and interpretation of law. This article compares the concepts of energy security and food security, focusing on their relationship to sustainability, and asks whether invoking security enables or obstructs each sector's ...
Matti Gurreck
wiley   +1 more source