Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet [PDF]
Penality in Scandinavia has been seen as somewhat of an outlier, a redoubt against the punitive turn witnessed in other parts of Western Europe and the United States. This article examines contemporary discourses of penality in Norway following the entry into government of the populist-right Progress Party.
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The contested and contingent outcomes of Thatcherism in the UK [PDF]
The death of Margaret Thatcher in April 2013 sparked a range of discussions and debates about the significance of her period in office and the political project to which she gave her name: Thatcherism.
Blair T +43 more
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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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Dynamics of partisan journalism: journalist-source relations in the context of a local newspaper's anti-paedophile housing agenda [PDF]
This article explores the influence of partisanship on the framing of a local news agenda. Using a case study approach, it explores how one local newspaper in the East Midlands of England, the Nottingham-based Evening Post, reacted with hostility to ...
Cross, S, Lockyer, S
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ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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Some reflections on the legitimacy of international trial justice [PDF]
This paper addresses a number of interrelated conceptual difficulties that impact adversely on the ability of international criminal trials to deliver outcomes perceived as legitimate by victims and communities in post-conflict states.
Henham, R
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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Főszerepben a politika: A büntető populizmus diskurzusai a magyar politikában és a médiában/Politically Driven: Mapping Political and Media Discourses of Penal Populism - the Hungarian Case [PDF]
Noha a büntető populizmus (penal populism) az angolszász országok igazságszolgálatási gyakorlatából ismert jelenség, Kelet-Európában is erősödik a bűnelkövetőkkel szemben szigorú fellépést követelők hangja.
Bartha, Attila +4 more
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The struggle for sentencing reform : will the English guidelines model spread? [PDF]
Are closely comparable countries following the path forged by England and Wales by moving towards the development of systematic sentencing guidelines by a Sentencing Council?
Tata, Cyrus
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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