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Justice, Professionalism and Politics in the Exercise of Judicial Review by Brazil’s Supreme Court
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 This study analyses interactions between Law, professionalism and politics. The primary intent is to understand the judicial behaviour of Brazil’s Supreme Court in the development and consolidation of democracy, by analysing how its justices voted in ...
Fabiana Luci Oliveira
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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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Strict Scrutiny & Fisher: The Court's Decision and its Implications [PDF]
, 2014 During the 2012-2013 term of the U.S. Supreme Court, many were in suspense over how the Court would rule on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the latest higher education case involving race-conscious admissions.
Chesnut, Colleen +3 more
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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 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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Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] “In the 1950s and 1960s, the southern states struggled to respond to the civil rights decisions being issued by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the new civil rights laws being passed by Congress.
Peppers, Todd C. +2 more
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The Aggrieved Subject: Culture Wars and Recognition Rights
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrew Fagan
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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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Coalition formation in the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009 [PDF]
We apply a fallback model of coalition formation to decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on the seven natural courts, which had the same members for at least two terms, between 1969 and 2009. The predictions of majority coalitions on each of the
Brams, Steven J. +2 more
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