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Government Spending and Civic Engagement: Exploring the Role of Civil Society Participation and Voting in 28 Democracies

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers causal evidence on how distinct forms of civic engagement affect government spending across 28 democracies between 2000 and 2024. Its main innovation lies in disentangling the fiscal effects of two channels of engagement—civil society participation and electoral turnout—through an original identification strategy that ...
Anna Lo Prete, Agnese Sacchi
wiley   +1 more source

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
core   +1 more source

Rhetoric Versus Reality? A Comparative Study of Public and Non‐Public Sector Employees' Perceptions of Discrimination

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How people are treated in the workplace is of increasing concern, with many scholars arguing that the government, as an employer, should set the standard for equitable treatment. While attention to equity in public administration has grown in research and practice, minimal work has comparatively explored discrimination in the public and non ...
Lihi Lahat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Control infinitives and case in Germanic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Barddal, Johanna   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent bilateral and plurilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) increasingly incorporate climate‐related provisions, signalling a potential convergence of international trade and climate law. This trend goes beyond defensive provisions seeking to avoid conflicts between the two legal regimes, such as exceptions recognising climate change as
Andreas Buser
wiley   +1 more source

The international climate change regime and general principles of law

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Climate Change Advisory Opinion (AO) by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demonstrates the growing prominence of general principles of law in international law. The Climate Change AO was handed down at the end of the International Law Commission's project on general principles of law with the adoption of its Draft Conclusions.
Renatus Otto Franz Derler, Mads Andenas
wiley   +1 more source

Jón the Fleming: Low German in Thirteenth-Century Norway and Fourteenth-Century Iceland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Low German influence is one of the most prominent characteristics of Old Norse in the later medieval period, but the processes whereby this took place are little evidenced.
Hall, ATP
core  

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