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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

A virtual reality system for court interpreting education and its effects on motivation and fluency based on self determination theory. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sio CI, Cheung AKF, Yao Y, Xie R, Wang X, Sun C, Lee LH.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, Joseph Ward   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic vs. Structural Precedent after Lisbon: Co-Citation Networks Analysis of CJEU Case Law (2008–2015)

Geremia S, Sardo A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Medicolegal and ethical concerns in genetic tests communication. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Di Lorenzo P, Marisei M, Macculi M, Casella C, Basilicata P, Capasso E, Niola M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
wiley   +1 more source

"Cannabis Green Wave" versus "Nicotine Freeze": the regulatory paradox of cannabis liberalization and nicotine prohibition. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Farsalinos K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters, Sean Hamil, Danny Fitzpatrick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source