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Performance Auditing and Adjudicating Political Disputes

Financial Accountability and Management, 2015
AbstractPerformance audits have provided governments with new opportunities to take advantage of the public sector auditor's moral legitimacy as an agent of accountability who is independent of government. With particular reference to a recent performance audit by the Australian Auditor‐General which the Prime Minister called for after he was accused ...
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The Politics of Border Disputes: On the Arabian Peninsula

International Journal, 1999
TERRITORIAL BORDERS ON THE Arabian Peninsula have long been the source of bitter disagreements. The peninsular states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen - have periodically challenged their respective frontiers.
Gwenn Okruhlik, Patrick J. Conge
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Premise Disputes and Political Ideology

British Journal of Political Science, 2020
AbstractA substantial body of scholarship highlights the role of core values as elements of liberalism–conservatism. However, researchers have yet to fully appreciate the contribution of premises, or abstractdescriptivebeliefs. This disjuncture has occurred despite the fact that for centuries, philosophers have used premises about human nature and ...
David C. Barker, Morgan Marietta
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The law and politics of WTO dispute settlement

2017
What is the relationship between politics and international law? Inspired by comparative politics and socio-legal studies, this Research Handbook develops a novel framework for comparative analysis of politics and international law at different stages of governance and in different governance systems.
Elsig, Manfred, Shaffer, Gregory, Puig, Sergio   +2 more
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Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1996
Contents: P. Caplan, Introduction: Anthropology and the Study of Disputes - S. F. Moore, Imperfect Communications - L. Nader, Civilization and its Negotiations - E. Colson, The Contentiousness of Disputes - C. Johnson, Gentlemanly Values: Contesting Corruption Accusations in the Cities of London and Lagos in the Mid-1950s - M.
Bob Simpson, Pat Caplan
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On the Concept of Political Disputes

2012
It is now appropriate to ask ourselves a question of principle which is essential as much for the theory as for the practice of international law. What is the link which exists between this sphere of the political and the sphere of the international legal system?
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The Political Dimensions of the Dispute

1968
In assessing the political dimensions of the Jordan River dispute, one must analyze the political importance of the Jordan River to both the Arabs and the Israelis and the relationship of the dispute to the broader complex of international issues known as the Cold War.
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Methodological Disputes in Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics, 2009
Within comparative politics there is a long-standing tension between general theory and its application to diverse areas of the globe. Yet one can argue that this has been a productive tension. Good work that is grounded in a firm understanding of history and place often contributes to the expansion of the theoretical horizons of the discipline as a ...
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Disputes About Ethics and Politics

2016
When debating moral questions, it is advisable to consider the extent to which each view rests on sympathizing with the suffering of others versus the extent to which its adoption rests on the hope that acting on it will increase human welfare. Such understanding can help clarify some rather abstract notions that might otherwise disrupt such debates.
Joseph Agassi, Abraham Meidan
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Political Motives in the Border Dispute

1964
In the years immediately after gaining power the new Chinese regime grossly overrated the military strength of the communist bloc. With regard to the United States this self-confidence resulted in Chines intervention in the Korean war. In respect of neutralism Peking, like Russia at that time, saw the world divided into two camps which left no room for
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