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Managing Complaint Mechanisms for Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence From Human Rights Institutions During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do regulatory bodies ensure that including the beneficiaries of regulation in regulatory processes improves governance? In many regulatory arrangements, beneficiaries' “fire alarm” monitoring and reporting of targets' violations via complaint mechanisms activate regulatory bodies' enforcement role.
Nicole De Silva
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
wiley   +1 more source

Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains ...
Deborah A. Potter
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
wiley   +1 more source

Is the World Getting Smaller? Network‐Driven Heterogeneity in Gravity‐Model Elasticities

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gravity models constitute the workhorse of empirical international trade research, yet the temporal stability of their core parameters—distance and GDP elasticities—remains underexplored, particularly in relation to the evolving structure of trade networks.
Zsolt T. Kosztyán   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

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