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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Constitutional Limits on Private Policing and the State’s Allocation of Force [PDF]
, 2009 This Note argues that a variety of private police forces, such as university patrols and residential security guards, should. be held to the constitutional limitations found in the Bill of Rights.
Enion, M. Rhead
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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New Challenges for European Space Industrial Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European space industry is globally competitive but faces challenges due to fragmented governance, reliance on commercial markets, and increased international competition. The European Union (EU) has become a major stakeholder in this sector, with a ‘fragmented institutional market’ shaped by policies, initiatives and programmes at ...
Sara Dalledonne +2 more
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The ‘National Security Strategy of the USA’ and Brazilian military thought: Imagining the near future [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines the US National Security Strategies, 2002 and 2006, with a view to understanding the impact that some of their elements, including the doctrine of pre-emptive war, may have on Brazilian military thought.
Zirker, Daniel
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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Central Bank Independence, Democracy, and Dollarization [PDF]
Is there a fundamental conflict between insulating monetary policy from popular pressures, seen as essential to sound monetary policy, and making policy responsive to the popular will, seen as fundamental to democracy?
Allan Drazen
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"Europe in Transformation: How to Reconstitute Democracy?" [PDF]
, 2007 Europeanization and globalization are frequently held to undermine national democracy; hence raising the democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the European Union?
Eriksen, Erik O.,, Fossum, John Erik.
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