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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating the plastics treaty to protect health and the environment. [PDF]

Bull World Health Organ
Chartres N, Grundy Q, Miller FA, Beeler B, Woodruff TJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of the WHO Pandemic Agreement. [PDF]

Bull World Health Organ
Jon W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Seeking deviations from South Africaﾒs tax treaty policy with respect to treaties in Africa: evidence from the treaty practice

, 2019
Mary-Ann de Wet
openalex   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Reviving Vavilov's vision: The tragedy of biodiversity governance and principles for reform. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Bertioli DJ, Leal-Bertioli SCM, Erda T, Simpson CE, Barrett S, Raven PH.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the evidence on the role and impact of plastics in the context of health products and their packaging: A scoping review. [PDF]

JRSM Open
Weerasinghe N, Hart D, Bowra A, D'Souza M, Nour S, Chartres N, Parker G, Holloway K, Miller FA, Tadrous M, Dimancesco D, Grundy Q.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source