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The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.
Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Foreword: The Perpetual Controversy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] “Two qualities of American capital punishment perhaps explain its ability to command the attention of the Court, year by year, decade after decade. First, an exceptionally talented and dedicated specialist capital defense bar continually mounts
Johnson, Christopher M.
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The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.
Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
wiley   +1 more source

The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
[Excerpt] “Academics, judges, and other commentators complain that, for the past few decades, the Justices on the Supreme Court have been increasingly writing opinions that are unreadable for most American citizens.
Johnson, Stephen M.
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The Young and the Redemptionless? Juvenile Offenders Before Miller v. Alabama [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive criminal sanctions, and the Supreme Court has held that this provision has special application in situations dealing with juvenile offenders.
Johnson, Katherine
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The Rules of the Coronation: Differentiating Convention from Practice and Custom

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The coronation of a new monarch is a constitutional event governed by unwritten rules. To understand which aspects of the coronation are constitutionally significant—and which are better understood as the product of tradition or novel approaches—this article examines how three types of unwritten rules structure the ceremony: conventions ...
Carolyn S. Harris, Philippe Lagassé
wiley   +1 more source

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