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Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares governance structures, policy formulation and implementation of administrative digitalization at the local level in three countries with different administrative traditions: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Sabine Kuhlmann, Justine Marienfeldt, Frederico Ganz   +2 more
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The right to life and death penalty in the Russian Empire in the views of liberal legalists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. In the early 20th and 21st centuries, researchers have studied and continue to study the problem of the struggle for the abolition of the death penalty in Russia. A special role in this struggle was played by liberal lawyerslegalists. Based
D. V. Rybin
doaj   +1 more source

Habitus, Reflexivity, and Micro‐Hysteresis: An Experimental Dialogue Between Bourdieu's Praxeology and Pragmatist Theories of Action

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The article explores an analytical strategy through which Bourdieu's theory of practice and (neo)pragmatist theories of action, especially Dewey's, may be synthesised into an integrated model of the subjective motors of social conduct, one capable of granting due explanatory weight to both habitual dispositions and reflexive processes.
Gabriel Peters
wiley   +1 more source

The Flaws of Foreign Affairs Legalism [PDF]

, 2011
Foreign affairs legalism, the dominant approach in academic scholarship on foreign relations law, holds that courts should abandon their traditional deference to the executive in foreign relations, and that courts and Congress should take a more activist
Posner, Eric A., Abebe, Daniel
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Ka'aguy Mba'apo: Indigenous Illicit Work and Strategic Opacity in the Interstices of the Paraguay–Brazil Border

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Indigenous Paĩ Tavyterã/Kaiowa communities along the Paraguay–Brazil border navigate illicit economies that have proliferated amid the expansion of soybean agribusiness and the withdrawal of the state. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork in several communities on both sides of the border, it explores how ...
Paul Fabié
wiley   +1 more source

The Coalition against the “War on Terror” in Light of International Politics, Law, and Protecting Human Welfare

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2007
In the universal realms of international law, all the associated political, social, legal, and religious actors would seek to strive to live in a world where there is justice, peace, tolerance, enhancement of human welfare, and friendly relations between
Kaleem Hussain
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 511-522, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Fact-Value Distinction: Reexamining Chinese Legalism (Fajia, 法家) Through Wael Hallaq’s Reconstruction of Sharīʿa

Religions
This paper argues that the central thesis of Wael Hallaq’s The Impossible State is that traditional Islamic cultures as shaped by Sharīʿa did not abide by a fact-value distinction.
Shuchen Xiang
doaj   +1 more source

Al-Suyutî Dan Kontroversi Strata Ijtihâd: Telaah atas Klaim Mujtahid Mutlaq al-Suyutî dan Landasan Normatifnya

Islamica: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2014
The 6th century of Islam witnessed the first emergence of the new class of ‘ulama that tended to “close” the gate of ijtihad. By the closure of the gate of ijtihad I do not mean that the gate of ijtihad can indeed be closed.
Ahwan Fanani
doaj   +1 more source

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 1501-1518, October 2026.
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, Jessica A. Schoenherr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source