The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad [PDF]
This paper seeks an explanation for the resilience of the Syrian authoritarian regime under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad. It will be argued that this resilience is to a relevant extent caused by the fact that the regime’s “material” as well as “ideational ...
Annette Büchs
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
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There’s More That Binds Us Together Than Separates Us : Exploring the Role of Prison-University Partnerships in Promoting Democratic Dialogue, Transformative Learning Opportunities and Social Citizenship [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper we argue that education – particularly higher education (HE) - has the potential to offer socially, economically and culturally transformative learning opportunities–cornerstones of social citizenship. Yet, for prisoners, the opportunity to
Hamilton, Paul, Dr. +1 more
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Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The climate crisis poses an acute threat to humanity. Eco‐social policy can help mitigate this threat, but eco‐social policy and the green transition are expensive. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the role that green subsidies play in advancing eco‐social politics and policies.
Benedikt Bender, Daniel Kinderman
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.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]
, 2006 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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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.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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Out of sight out of mind: Psychological distance and opinion about the age of penal majority. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Caldas IFR +6 more
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.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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COVID-19 and European carcerality: Do national prison policies converge when faced with a pandemic? [PDF]
Punishm Soc, 2022 Zeveleva O, Nazif-Munoz JI.
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