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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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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach +2 more
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‘Integration-through-Law’: grand theory, revisionist history
European Law OpenHow has the European Union been integrated in the past? Legal academics have traditionally pointed to the Court of Justice and to the broader idea of an ‘integration-through-law’.
Robert Schütze
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The emergence of post-Westphalian health governance during the Covid-19 pandemic: the European Health Union. [PDF]
Disasters, 2021 Fraundorfer M, Winn N.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Treatment of environmental problems in South America. A look from the regional integration schemes
Ciudad Paz-ando, 2016 Given the multidimensional and transnational nature of environmental isues, joint actions from governments are absolutely essential after addressing them.
María Eugenia Vega
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European Law OpenThis article pursues re-constructive and explanatory objectives which are embedded in a theoretical and normative agenda. The introduction specifies its beginnings including biographical notes.
Christian Joerges
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato +2 more
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The UK, the EU, and COVID-19: Media reporting, the recontextualisation of Eurosceptic discourse, and the fait accompli of Brexit. [PDF]
Politics (Oxf), 2023 Copeland P, Maccaferri M.
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Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER +2 more
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