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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Kennedy Retirement Plunges Supreme Court into Politics. Here\u27s How to Turn Down the Heat.
, 2018 Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to retire from the Supreme Court could create a sea change in the court’s jurisprudence for years to come. The debate about his successor will once again underscore the fierce partisan politics that surround the court ...
Boddery, Scott S.
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A Comparison of the American Model and French (-Inspired) Appellate Model [PDF]
, 2018 Both the American and the French legal system have a three-tiered structure. However, the respective roles and functions of the courts on each step of the ladder is vastly different in both. Whereas the general system in the U.S.
Blockx, Frederic
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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Institutional hybridity and policy-motivated reasoning structure public evaluations of the Supreme Court. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Gadarian SK, Strother L.
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The Constitutionality of Public School Financing Laws: Judicial and Legislative Interaction [PDF]
, 1980 This Note looks at the various ways states fund public education. Then the Note examines the how the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision of Board of Education v. Nyquist impacts how states fund public education.
Gitlin, Bruce
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Gerrymandering Justiciability [PDF]
, 2020 As illustrated by its 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court has gerrymandered its justiciability doctrines in a way that protects the political power of white voters.
Spann, Girardeau A
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Kinship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession
Constellations, EarlyView.
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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