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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen +5 more
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Contextualising Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract More than a century ago, W. N. Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights.
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald
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DIFERENŢIEREA PEDEPSEI PENALE PRIN SANCŢIUNE
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2009 The elements of penal law norm and the way they systematize into it content can be assigned by the duality of the given norm, directly by the general norms and the special norms.
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Introduction A growing number of countries have adopted legislation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights. The purpose of many rights‐of‐nature laws is linked to restoring biodiversity and ecosystems. Consequently, an ecosystem's right to restoration has emerged as a substantive right of nature.
Mariam C. Kanyama
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For the law to function effectively in society, it must not only be enforced but also promote compliance, particularly in emotionally charged, polarized, or uncertain situations. This study explores the impact of legal sanction stringency and perceived sanction risk on the perceived legitimacy of and willingness to comply with mandatory ...
David Lacko +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché +2 more
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Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
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“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon +3 more
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Realization of the Finno-Ugric Vowel /*e/ at the End of the Word-Stem in the Moksha Language
Oriental Studies, 2018 В статье осуществляется попытка определить корреспонденции финно-угорского гласного *е конца основы в мокшанском языке, а также выявить закономерности фонетических изменений.
Galina S. Ivanova +2 more
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