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The University of Alaska - Juneau Whalesong [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
Formal commencement planned: Boochever to give address -- Student multi-media art show -- Editorials: Mother whale waves goodbye or will the new editor come aboard? -- Thar she blows -- The hundredth monkey -- Student lobby recommendations for next year -

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Information and the legislative process in the European Union. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents spatial models of policy making in the European Union and focuses on informational asymmetries and interest group lobbying. It determines optimal lobbying strategies under the EU's three principal legislative procedures: the ...
Crombez, Christophe
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In the Name of Efficiency: How the Massachusetts District Courts are Lobbying Away the Constitutional Rights of Indigent Defendants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This Note explores the current practice of lobby conferences in Massachusetts district courts. At these proceedings, attorneys meet with the judge in chambers, without the defendant and off the record. The attorneys and the judge make one last attempt to
Litmanovich, Raisa
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Trade policy on a country basis and multilateral arrangements: The case of Uruguay [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper sheds some light on two issues related to recent the multilateral trade agreements (Ronda Uruguay of GATT and the creation of WTO). First, are they binding for the design of trade policies in Uruguay?
Marcel Vaillant
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Going to Hell in a HHS Notice: The Contraceptive Mandate\u27s Next Impermissible Burden on Religious Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that eligible religious organizations submit a notice objecting to providing their employees contraceptive coverage if they religiously object to contraception or abortifacients is as simple as filing a piece of ...
O\u27Callaghan, Trey
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Lobbyin to prevent commercial piracy [PDF]

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In this paper we develop a common agency model to analyze the problem of pirates entering the market, in which the incumbent and the consumers form pressure groups to lobby the government on policies to prevent piracy while the pirates try to avoid being
Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco
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Empresariado, parlamento e democracia: a CNI e o Congresso Nacional (2010-2017)1

open access: yesOpinião Pública
Este artigo trata da relação entre empresariado e parlamento no Brasil, mais especificamente da agenda legislativa da Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI).
Paulo Roberto Neves Costa   +1 more
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Book Review: Radu CARP, Dumnezeu la Bruxelles. Religia în spatiul public european [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of European Affairs, 2010
The religious phenomenon has always generated intense feelings that have often undermined the scientific analysis and the academic debate. In an European political space dominated by secularism Radu Carp analyses the present and future of religion within
Mihai Sebe
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Redealing the Cards: How the Presence of an Eco-Industry Modifies the Political Economy of Environmental Policies [PDF]

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An incumbent government maximizes its chances of being reelected. Its objective function encompasses both social welfare and political contributions. Its only instrument is a pollution tax.
Joan Canton
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Reforming Legislatures: Is one House better than two? [PDF]

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During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed ...
Cecilia Testa, Giovanni Facchini
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