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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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BioMed Research International, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 L‐Theanine is a nonprotein amino acid in tea, and its immunomodulatory function has been confirmed. This study aimed to investigate the effect of L‐theanine addition on cytokines secretion in rat splenic lymphocytes and explore its potential immunomodulatory effects on the mevalonate biosynthetic pathway.
Chengjian Li +5 more
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Institutionalization of sociology of the body: 'Somatization' of sociology or 'sociologization' of the body? [PDF]
Socioloski pregled, 2006 This paper examines the process of institutionalization of a new discipline. Sociology of the body was established at the beginning of the 1990s, and the process coincided with major changes within sociology. The model of strategic institutionalization of modern sciences was applied in the paper.
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article draws on the analysis of semi‐structured interviews to compare the immigration experiences of queer individuals from the Global North with those of their counterparts from the Global South. It examines the process of racialization experienced by some of these individuals upon arrival in Quebec/Canada, the transformation of this ...
Barbara Andrade de Sousa +1 more
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Fyra generaliserade steg i lärandeprocessen
Sociologisk Forskning, 2022 This essay was delivered as a speech by the outgoing president of the Swedish Sociological Association in connection with the bi-annual Sociologidagarna in Uppsala 16–18 March 2022.
Kenneth Nelson
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the sociohistorical construction of civilian unpreparedness as a public policy issue in Los Angeles, arguing that it emerged not as a neutral response to escalating urban risks, but as a mechanism through which actors negotiated power dynamics amid urban transformations between 1940 and 1980.
Piero Tellerías Melgarejo
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Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2012 What can we learn about the relation between work and sickness by studying incapacity for work as it manifests itself in the way in which the phenomenon is discursively constructed and regulated by law in the period from 1950 to the present?
Claus D. Hansen
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