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Do Animals Have Rights?

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Do animals have moral rights? An affirmative answer follows from the best justification for human rights that we can give. The moral status not only of humans but also of animals consists in an egalitarian right to have rights.
Bernd Ladwig
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A Political Theory of Populism [PDF]

open access: yesThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010
When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence, even a moderate politician seeking reelection choose policies to the left of the median voter as a way of signaling that he is not from the right (while truly ...
Daron Acemoglu   +2 more
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Human Capital and Rural Households’ Vulnerability to Relative Poverty: Evidence from China

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022
Drawing on three-wave panel data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2014, 2016, and 2018, this paper measures rural households’ vulnerability to relative poverty using the three-stage feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) model. We analyze the
Jianfeng Su, Shurui Guo
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How to Write Analytical Political Theory

open access: yes, 2020
This is the first book to explain how to use key methods in analytical political theory. The methods discussed include contractualism, reflective equilibrium, positive political theory, thought experiments and ideological analysis.
Goodin, Robert, Robert E. Goodin
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Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2014
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Forest Enhancement (REDD+) has become a central focus of global climate change mitigation efforts.
Prakash Kashwan, Robert Holahan
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How to Do a Political Theory PhD

open access: yes, 2020
The other chapters in this book describe and critique the standard methods used in analytical political theory.
Goodin, Robert   +3 more
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Is Investor-State Arbitration Unfair? A Freedom-Based Perspective

open access: yesGlobal justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2017
Investor-state-dispute-settlement (ISDS) is an arbitration mechanism to settle disputes between foreign investors and host-states. Seemingly a technical issue in private international law, ISDS procedures have recently become a matter of public concern ...
Ayelet Banai
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Promises and challenges of deliberative and participatory innovations in hybride regimes: The case of two citizens’ assemblies in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2022
A worrying trend of autocratization that has been spreading globally in recent years, has thrust forward a new wave of appeals for deliberative and participatory democracy as a remedy for the crisis.
Fiket Irena, Đorđević Biljana
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Book review: History of political theory: an introduction.Volume 1: ancient and medieval political theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
History of Political Theory: An Introduction considers the contributions of the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory. Volume I traces the development of political theory “from the beginning” in ancient Greece through the Reformation ...
Fisher, Mark
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Sport in International Relations. Expectations, Possibilities and Effects

open access: yesInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2013
The aim of this article is to show how sport can matter in international relations. Sport can be a subject or a tool of international relations. It can be used by states or geopolitical blocks to display their alleged superiority or any other desired ...
Michał Marcin Kobierecki
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