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The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
wiley   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
wiley   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

What Voting Power Cannot Be

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

From Discretion to Calculation: How Analog Automation Shaped Digitalization of Finnish Social Assistance

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Euan Allison
wiley   +1 more source

Social Equity Through Women's Empowerment: Women's Participation in Local Politics, Budgeting and Decision‐Making in Bangladesh

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism?

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
John Lawless
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

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