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Social Work: Its Place in Determining the Worthy and the Unworthy—A Reflection
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
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Public policy to address displacement in Mexico
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
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Measuring Political Gerrymandering [PDF]
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
Supreme Court and the Practice of Oncology. [PDF]
Chabner BA, Bates SE.
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Spatial analysis of U.S. Supreme Court 5-to-4 decisions [PDF]
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
US supreme court decision: the gastroenterological perspective. [PDF]
Lahat A, Klang E.
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The Power of Congress and the President in International Relations: Three Recent Supreme Court Decisions [PDF]
Stefan A. Riesenfeld
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Admissibility and Use by the United States Supreme Court of Extrinsic Aids in Constitutional Construction [PDF]
Jacobus tenBroek
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The Epistemic Challenge to Democratic Resilience: A Late‐Classical Athenian Institutional Solution
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
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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
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