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The choice argument for proportional representation

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

Probability of criminal punishment of physicians in Korea is remarkably higher than in Japan and France. [PDF]

Ewha Med J
Kim HS, Ahn DS.
europepmc   +1 more source

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

Conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution

The conditional discontinuation of criminal prosecution Abstract This thesis examines the institute of conditional discontinuation of criminal prosecution in Czech criminal law.
Lucák, Jozef
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Dealing With Defilement Cases in Ghana: Intricacies of Law, Sociology and Psychology. [PDF]

Sex Offending
Agboli JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

The initiation of ciriminal prosecution and actions realised before initiation of criminal prosecution

, 2016
The initiation of criminal prosecution The reason for my thesis, is to analyse the procedure of initiation of criminal prosecution and acts of preliminary hearing that are connected to it.
Tomeš, Jan
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Drug-Related Felony Processing in Nevada (2016-2023): Trends in Arrest, Conviction, and Structural Exposure. [PDF]

Cureus
Toro Ruilowa O, Atkins JB, Atkins MA, Stone AL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
wiley   +1 more source

Outsourcing Criminal Prosecution?: The Limits of Criminal Justice Privatization

, 2010
In an era of scarce public resources, many jurisdictions are being forced to take drastic measures to address severe budgetary constraints on the administration of criminal justice.
Fairfax, Roger, Fairfax, Roger A, Jr.
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