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Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, explains his preferred version of the so-called nuclear option by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate\u27s entrenched filibuster ...
Amar, Akhil Reed
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Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the evolution of pre-service teachers’ beliefs about English for specific purposes (ESP) through case studies from a teacher education program

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Regardless of the increasing recognition of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the learning of languages, the conceptions of pre-service teachers with respect to ESP instruction remain unexplored, especially when compared to their perspectives about ...
Yu Shi, Xue Shen, Yan Chang
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of the World Bank in Controlling Corruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In 1997, Professor of Law and Political Science, Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s seventeenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: The World Bank’s Role in Controlling Corruption.
Rose-Ackerman, Susan
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereignty in the EU Constitutional Order: Integrating Law and Political Science [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper examines how law and political science have studied the role played by sovereignty claims in the EU constitutional order. Typically, it is argued, the two disciplines have studied sovereignty in the EU from parallel perspectives, with the former emphasising the dimension of the internal sovereignty of the EU and the latter focusing on member
Mac Amhlaigh, Cormac, Glencross, Andrew
openaire   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post legal positivism: new paradigm of legal science (jurisprudence) and practice in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The relation between law, moral, society and science is shifting in Brazil as it is changing in democratic contemporary societies. This paper proposes to reflect about this change in the Brazilian legal and social context.
Malheiros da Cunha Frota, Pablo   +1 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between nature exposure and suicidal tendency among Chinese inmates: a moderated mediation model

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Inmate suicide is a serious problem faced by society. Evidence shows that nature exposure is closely related to the mental health of inmates, yet its relationship with suicidal tendency remains unclear.
Junze Xiao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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