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A historical perspective on Lionel Penrose: Scientist, geneticist and dedicated opponent of eugenics

open access: yesAnnals of Human Genetics, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper explores Lionel Penrose's scientific work. Penrose investigated the causes of mental disorders from clinical and genetic points of view. His investigations on phenylketonuria and Down syndrome helped to demonstrate the heterogenous character of mental disorders, whose causes can range from genetic with high penetrance, to largely ...
Maria Kiladi
wiley   +1 more source

Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians: The Rhetoric of Reaction and Racial Discrimination in Australia, 1975–1995

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around ...
Tim Soutphommasane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affirmative action without competition

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Affirmative action is standardly pursued in relation to admissions to prestigious universities, in hiring for prestigious jobs, and when it comes to being elected to parliament. Central to these forms of affirmative action is that they have to do with competitive goods.
Andreas Bengtson
wiley   +1 more source

A Qualitative Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Hepatitis B and C Programmes in Prisons. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Viral Hepat
Emery H   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender and reactions to speeches in German parliamentary debates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Are nonverbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female members of parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of ...
Elliott Ash   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community interventions in the administration of justice

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In theory, the administration of criminal justice is state business: Defendants are arrested, tried, and punished by state agents. In reality, citizens often attempt to intervene in this process—for example, by imposing their own punishments in lieu of, or in addition to, state penalties. We build a game‐theoretic model to investigate how such
Carlo M. Horz, Hannah K. Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

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