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Election Law and White Identity Politics [PDF]

, 2019
The role of race in American politics looms large in several election law doctrines. Regrettably, though, these doctrines’ analyses of race, racial identity, and the relationships between race and politics often lack sophistication, historical context ...
Sellers, Joshua S.
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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The moderating role of academic achievement attribution in shaping the impact of negative life events on adolescent problem behaviors and school dropout tendency

BMC Psychology
Purpose This study explores how negative life events influence dropout tendencies through internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of academic achievement attribution tendencies on the ...
Da Yi, Xing Xu, Qingqi Zhang, Ai Ma, Xiaoqian Liu, Cheng Lian   +5 more
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Law as Politics : Four Relations [PDF]

, 2020
In a 2006 article, Duncan Kennedy identifies politics as the central dilemma of contemporary legal thought, but affirms that law is non-reducible to politics, which could be read as a partial retraction from the known coda “law is politics.” This essay ...
Etxabe , Julen
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: activating human rights and peace [PDF]

, 2012
Activating Human Rights and Peace is an enlightening collection of well thought through cases aimed at academics and students of human rights, political science, law and justice, peace and conflict studies and sociology.
Perrin, Kristen
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Some advances in legal practical reason: for a progressive dialogue with contemporary hermeneutics [PDF]

, 2012
This paper intends to critically discuss some points of the contemporary thesis concerning constitutional hermeneutics and methodology of law. Once identified some authors and the lines of argumentation affiliated grosso modo to the linguistic turn and ...
Siqueira Pontes, José Antonio
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Racism and racial disparities in firearm violence: A scoping review

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firearm violence (i.e., interpersonal, police firearm violence) disproportionately affects racially minoritized communities. Researchers recently shifted their focus from race to racism to better understand the factors that contribute to racial disparities in firearm violence.
Daniel B. Lee, Lexie M. Contreras, Laney Rupp, Stephanie H. Cook, Marc A. Zimmerman, Patrick M. Carter, Katherine P. Theall, Riley Bennett, Julia M. Fleckman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Compensation System on Employee Performance: An Analytical Study from the Perspective of Employees at Soran University/ Erbil Governorate/Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Tikrit Journal of Administrative and Economic Sciences
The main purpose of this study is to discover the impact of the compensation system on employee performance. To accomplish this objective, a quantitative technique was applied.
Murad Muzafer Hamze, Handren Hassan Qader, Gulistan Fkri Fakher, Roya Issa Ado   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source