Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts [PDF]
This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school choice program launched in 1996. Districts'
Johannes Rincke
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Served on a silver platter? A review of the UNCTAD Global Action Menu for Investment Facilitation [PDF]
Increasing dissatisfaction with investor-State dispute settlement has weakened the adversarial approach to international investment law and policy. This article argues that global initiatives, such as the UNCTAD’s Global Action Menu for Investment ...
Ghouri, Ahmad
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International Investment and Indigenous Peoples' Environment: A Survey of ISDS Cases from 2000 to 2020. [PDF]
Wang C, Ning J, Zhang X.
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Negotiating healthy trade in Australia: health impact assessment of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [PDF]
Drawing on leaked texts of potential provisions of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, this health impact assessment found the potential for negative impacts in the cost of medicines, tobacco control policies, alcohol control policies, and ...
Anne Marie Thow +4 more
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Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public's Health. [PDF]
Wood B, Lacy-Nichols J, Sacks G.
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Investment Governance to Reverse Unjustified Privileging of Investors. [PDF]
Mohamadieh K.
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COVID-19 and a Window of Opportunity: Guiding Principles for a Health-Promoting Trade Agenda. [PDF]
Yang JS +3 more
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Examining host-State counterclaims for environmental damage in investor-State dispute settlement from human rights and transnational public policy perspectives. [PDF]
Gleason T.
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Democracy, political participation and good governance in Nigeria [PDF]
The practice of democracy in Nigeria over a decade ago has not yielded much needed good governance. This is because democracy is practiced in such a way that responsible and competent people are scared away.
Dare E. Arowolo, Olukemi A. Aluko
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses. [PDF]
Francis Maïnkade B.
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