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Social Work: Its Place in Determining the Worthy and the Unworthy—A Reflection

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter considers the colonial aspects of social work as it is practiced and taught and explores decolonizing possibilities for the discipline at institutional, systemic, and individual levels.
Peter Choate
wiley   +1 more source

Public policy to address displacement in Mexico

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2014
At hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in November 2013 on the human rights situation in Mexico, the issue of the internally displaced in particular caught my attention, both due to its current serious level and for its potential ...
José Ramón Cossío Díaz
doaj  

Measuring Political Gerrymandering [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
In 2016, a Wisconsin court struck down the state assembly map due to unconstitutional gerrymandering. If this ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court's pending 2018 decision, it will be the fist successful political gerrymandering case in the history of the United States.
arxiv  

Spatial analysis of U.S. Supreme Court 5-to-4 decisions [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
While the U.S. Supreme Court is commonly viewed as comprising a liberal bloc and a conservative bloc, with a possible swing vote or median justice between them, surprisingly many case decisions are not explained by this simple model. We introduce a pair of spatial methods for conceptualizing many 5-to-4 voting alignments that have occurred on the Court
arxiv  

The Epistemic Challenge to Democratic Resilience: A Late‐Classical Athenian Institutional Solution

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic erosion is an increasingly worrying phenomenon, affecting not only both young and transitional democracies but also more consolidated ones. A particularly important aspect of this process (in its contemporary incarnation) is that, because of its subtle and incrementalist character, it is difficult to perceive by citizens, who often ...
Alexandru Volacu
wiley   +1 more source

Deliberative Theory for Re‐Focusing the Concept, Measurement, and Analysis of Substantive Reasons in Political Discussions

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on theories of deliberative democracy, this article explores the substantive content of reasons as a conceptual tool. Although most studies focus on procedural dimensions, we argue that identifying and mapping substantive reasons contributes to advancing empirical investigation in a theoretically informed and normatively relevant way ...
Rousiley C. M. Maia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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