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Taking stock: The contribution of policy studies to our understanding of gun policy
Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 415-425, June 2023., 2023 Abstract In the summer of 2022, the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas once again thrust firearms policy onto the public agenda and opened an agenda window for bipartisan gun reforms in the Senate. Almost simultaneously, the Supreme Court struck down restrictions on concealed carry in New York state in the first major ruling on Second Amendment ...
Noah S. Schwartz
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 13, Issue 3, Page 277-295, September 2022., 2022 Abstract In abstaining from law‐enforced virus containment measures, the Swedish response to the severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic crisis stood out as radically different compared to other European nations. The present study aims to provide an understanding of the deviant Swedish crisis strategy and to do so from a cultural perspective
Sandra Simonsen
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Review of Policy Research, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 541-569, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Scholarship on boom‐busts cycles in resource extraction often assumes that affected resource‐rich communities are at best reactive, at worst helpless, in the face of the large, exogenous shocks this cycle visits upon them. Researchers infrequently examine what communities themselves can do to improve their economic prospects and residents ...
Gwen Arnold +11 more
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Clarifying and Defining the Concept of Liquid Democracy
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 61-80, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Liquid Democracy (LD) is a recent phenomenon that could radically affect our understanding of democracy. Yet, there remains significant semantic confusion surrounding this concept, and researchers in the social sciences, as well as in political theory, currently lack a general definition that is broadly accepted as a standard reference ...
Chiara Valsangiacomo
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Alternative discourses in Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 2001 This article brings into focus the question of alternative discourses in the social sciences. Alternative discourses are works that attempt to debunk ideas that have become entrenched in the social sciences, partly as a result of colonialism and the ...
Syed Farid Alatas,
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The British Journal of Sociology, 2015 AbstractIn this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry.
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Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Aparat Penegak Hukum Dan Lembaga Pengadilan Di Indonesia [PDF]
, 2010 The atmosphere of the anniversary of indepedence august 17, 2010 is an opportune moment to reflect on the ways the law during this run which is full of criticism and cynisism from the public view.in this paper,the author wants to changes the ways in ...
Musa, F. T. (Farid)
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, 2018 This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and
McCormack, M +3 more
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Javnost v parkih – med opazovanjem in delovanjem. Primer Pariza [PDF]
, 2008 Kako naj v načrtovanje ter izgradnjo javnih parkov in vrtov vključimo tudi družbeno dimenzijo? Oziroma natančneje, kako naj uporabnikom in urbanitom določimo vlogo v projektih javnih parkov?
Michèle Jolé
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Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body [PDF]
, 2017 Researchers have made progress in understanding the role of repugnance in transactions involving the human body. Yet, often, the focus remains on exchange between individuals and how they mentally cope (or not) with repugnance.
Healy, Kieran, Krawiec, Kimberly D.
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