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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Chris Hilliard
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Social democratic populist party and the transformation of the Turkish left: an unfinished dream [PDF]
, 2005 One of the primary debates in Turkish political science literature is the surprisingly weak and rigid character of the center-left parties which caused social democracy to become a generic name for a progressive political culture and attitude instead of ...
Esen, Berk
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COVID-19 and erosion of democracy. [PDF]
Econ Model, 2022 Lewkowicz J, Woźniak M, Wrzesiński M.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Volja za vlast kao etika i demokracija [PDF]
, 2004 Irrespective of the fact that ultimately all authority is based upon forceful threats or the use of force itself, nevertheless, the permanence and continuity of authority cannot be accomplished by coercion alone, but rather only by the consent - however ...
Polić, Milan, Milan Polić
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Young adults fall for non-democratic ideology regardless of their education and political leaning: a data report from a Czech physiological study. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Petlach M, Ondruška M.
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Globalization, Latin America, and the quest for democracy in the work of Alejandro Serrano Caldera [PDF]
, 2002 For the past couple of decades, the current trend known as "globalization" has been critiqued by many Latin American writers as constituting a more sophisticated form of colonialism. Specifically, the colonial structures of the past are no longer secured
Esposito, Luigi
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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The Constitutional Court and freedom of expression [PDF]
, 2001 The 1987 Constitution underscores the crucial role of courts in freedom-of-expression jurisprudence in connection with judicial independence and activism in a democratic Korea.
Youm, Kyu Ho
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