Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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Optimal Runge approximation for nonlocal wave equations and unique determination of polyhomogeneous nonlinearities. [PDF]
Lin YH, Tyni T, Zimmermann P.
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Electoral responses to economic crises
Abstract How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extensive data on electorates, parties, and individuals in 24 countries for over half a century, we document a systematic pattern whereby economic ...
Yotam Margalit, Omer Solodoch
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Heat Conduction Model Based on the Explicit Euler Method for Non-Stationary Cases. [PDF]
Érchegyi A, Rácz E.
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Decomposing socioeconomic and educational inequalities in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: DHS insights linked to countdown to 2030 and agenda 2063. [PDF]
Anteneh RM +14 more
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Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies
Abstract Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for “left behind” areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of ...
Benjamin Helms, Junghyun Lim
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Experience of intimate-partner controlling behaviours among women in Ghana: a novel three step latent class analysis approach with survey-weighted fractional-logit regression. [PDF]
Aheto JMK, Wellington PO, Amponsah IKV.
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the current state of the art regarding the contribution of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We conducted a Systematic Literature Review Analysis (SLRA), which integrates a traditional Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with Bibliographic Analysis (BA), on a
Pasquale Latella, Stefania Veltri
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Novel versions of Hölder's-Like and related inequalities with newly defined L P space, and their applications over fuzzy domain. [PDF]
Shi X +4 more
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