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Editorial

open access: yesIntergenerational Justice Review, 2016
By their very nature, constitutions are intergenerational documents. With rare exceptions, they are meant to endure for many generations. They establish the basic institutions of government, enshrine the fundamental values of a people, and place certain ...
Bruce Auerbach   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Voting Systems Influence Conservation Outcomes for International Fisheries

open access: yesConservation Letters
Fishery stocks that range partly or entirely beyond national jurisdictions pose substantial coordination challenges. Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) were created to coordinate the sustainable management of these resources.
Irina Lerner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Choosing Life, Not Suffering

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In his 2010 New Yorker piece titled “Letting Go,” Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the case of Sara Thomas Monopoli, a 34-year-old woman with inoperable and metastatic lung cancer.
Mytra Haerizadeh, Dylan Marshall
doaj   +1 more source

Projecting a Range of Possible Results in the December 2015 Elections for National Assembly in Venezuela [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper finds that a wide range of outcomes are possible in the December 6 National Assembly elections, based on current polling data; and that there is potential for significant disparity between the popular vote and the distribution of seats among ...
David Rosnick
core  

Determinants of Political Polarization and Consensus in the US Congress: An Analysis of Policy Issues and Institutional Factors (1991–2020)

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how different policy issues and institutional factors influence the strength of political consensus and polarized voting in the United States (US) Congress between 1991 and 2020. Utilising the Jordan Tama important congressional votes dataset, the analysis investigates the impact of external factors, such as foreign trade ...
Binda Godlove Aka   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

La ficción de las primarias presidenciales en Bolivia

open access: yesColombia Internacional
Objective/context: The system of presidential primaries was introduced into the Bolivian system in 2018 and was applied only once in 2019. This article aims to analyze the causes, characteristics, and effects of the compulsory and simultaneous primary ...
Nataly Viviana Vargas Gamboa
doaj   +1 more source

Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, explains his preferred version of the so-called nuclear option by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate\u27s entrenched filibuster ...
Amar, Akhil Reed
core   +2 more sources

Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
wiley   +1 more source

Position paper of diagnosis and treatment of post-extubation laryngitis in children: a multidisciplinary expert-based opinion

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Objectives: To make recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of post-extubation laryngitis (PEL) in children with or without other comorbidities. Methods: A three-iterative modified Delphi method was applied. Specialists were recruited representing
Débora Bressan Pazinatto   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

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