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Protection of Personal Data and Citizens’ Rights of Privacy in the Fight against the Financing of Terrorism. CEPS Policy Briefs No. 67, 1 March 2005 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In the fight against international terrorism, the European Union adopted a Regulation (n° 881/2002) in May 2002, permitting the freezing of assets belonging to Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban.
Moiny, Yves.
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

The choice argument for proportional representation

open access: yesAmerican 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

Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sweden

open access: yes, 2012
Analysis of the system of criminal procedure in Sweden in light of the proposal for the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor's ...
Lund University., Wong, Christoffer,
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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 EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE IN THE INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022
EPPO research and analysis are necessary, useful and opportune, given its involvement in achieving EU objectives. The approach will be continuous, but different. The statement is based on the fact that, at present, we do not have enough data / information to highlight the experience gained in the field.
openaire   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAmerican 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

Genocide Prevention through Changing the United Nations Security Council Power of Veto

open access: yes, 2007
In 1948 the international community in reaction to the horrors of the holocaust sought to eradicate genocide forever by creating the 'Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide'. This Convention criminalised the preparation and
Butters, Michelle
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