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Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand

For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A ... ethnic minority voters, with consequences for their political inclusion and representation. We examine how these questions have been answered in New Zealand, a country characterised by high rates of inward

Political Trust

SIGNIFICANCE OF POLITICAL TRUST FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY .................................................................................................. 1298 INTRODUCTION Political trust—trust in ... Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. 1. Jacques Thomassen, Rudy Andeweg & Carolien van Ham, Political Trust and the Decline of Legitimacy Debate: A Theoretical and Empirical

Political Partisanship and Sincere Religious Conviction

Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby have suggested that the plaintiffs in that case and in related cases were motivated more by political ideology than by sincere religious conviction. The ... Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Law Review by an authorized editor of BYU Law Digital Commons. For more information , please contact - Political Partisanship and Sincere

Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong ... contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio‑political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are

Ethnic Minority Contact and the Similarities between Adolescent-Reported Parental and Self-Reported Far Right-Wing Attitudes

opinion. Since political attitudes are shaped within the family and peer setting during the adolescent stage, assessing the potential interplay of family and peer relationships with regard to such attitudes ... Verfassungsschutz, 2019) . Radical right-wing parties and movements have made their mark in numerous European countries in recent years. Such increases are not limited to the political level, as they have also been

Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

 Netherlands Fatih Goksu Arjen Leerkes Introduction A considerable academic literature in migration studies and political science seeks to identify the factors that determine whether persons with a migration ... levels, for example, are seen as evidence that ethnic minorities have acquired a considerable level of knowledge of, and access to, the domestic political system. Furthermore, the overrepresentation of

Federick Douglass and the Original Originalists

to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, Douglass declared: “interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document.” Because Douglass was primarily a political and ... political philosophy, as well as the demands of justice and prudence. Finally, it demonstrates how natural rights originalism can be used to address constitutional evils by analyzing Douglass’s remarks

Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan

diverse socio-economic, socio-political and cultural contexts, histories of inward migration, as well as differently preferred destinations in the migration of refugees from Syria in the 2010s. The ... solidarity (Bracic, 2018; Pawlicka et al., 2019; Pedersen & Thomas, 2013; Verkuyten, 2004) , behavioural intentions (Badea et  al., 2017; Yitmen & Verkuyten, 2018) , political orientation and related

Liberalism, Catholic Integralism, and the Question of Religious Freedom

first sketch the respective views of liberalism and Catholic integralism on each other, with an emphasis on integralism. For integralism, liberalism is not merely a political phenomenon, but a ... political philosophy of limited government, one which affirms a constellation of values that includes individual rights, liberty of conscience, toleration, a delineation of the public and private spheres

Regulating Strategic Sovereign Wealth

surpluses – to invest widely in foreign markets. Sovereign wealth funds were products of the international economic order then in existence, adapted to a political and economic environment in which borders ... desperate age. Rather than focusing on outward investment, these sovereign funds turn inward, focusing instead on domestic concerns and prioritizing domestic political legitimacy. While these strategic funds

Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

international students and have experienced similar political trajectories during this period, they have pursued divergent education and immigration policies in regulating ISM. Driven by a mix of educational ... particular have contributed to its spectacular ascent. The first is educational expansion, which can be defined as a political strategy to increase tertiary enrollment across society. Historically, the need to

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

Diasporas can create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in their homeland and in their hostland, engaging in both electoral and non-electoral politics ... . However, the individual processes of subjectivation and its relationship with arts as a form of political engagement have been under‑ explored especially in contexts of violence and insecurity. This

The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights

protecting in ways that it, first, neglects ongoing processes of integration and, second, disregards possibilities for social and political change and emancipation, particularly if triggered by immigrant ... rights. In political philosophy, questions of border control are, in principle, separated from questions of domestic justice (e.g., Fine & Ypi, 2016) . Moreover, it must be noted that within the ethics

Abolishing the Evidence-Based Paradigm

data collection and empirical analysis to shape and assess reforms, has been widely embraced for its potential to cure the emotional and political pathologies that led to mass incarceration. It has ... target, and whose voices and interests matter. In other words, the evidence-based paradigm is political, and it does have an agenda. And that agenda, informed by neoliberalism and the enduring legacy of

Transforming Natural Religion: An Essay on Religious Liberty and the Constitution

, rather than having doctrines imposed on them by religious or political authorities. And it held that people with diverse beliefs were capable of living together in an open, self-governing society based on ... ......................................................................................................1473 2. Social, Political, Legal, and Constitutional ...............................................1475 3. Aesthetic and Intellectual

Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations

on the content of individuals’ rights and their belonging and participation in social and political institutions, this essay shows that official membership categories that are labeled ‘citizenship’ by ... relevant terminological differentiation for political philosophy, but it seems less important from the perspective of legal state membership and its discursive conceptualizations. The disassociation between

Ukraine, Urban Warfare, and Obstacles to Humanitarian Access: A Predicament of Public International Law

importance of accountability and evaluation”; and in the 1990s, the Yugoslavia war pointed out the weakness of humanitarian organizations absent “strong political decisions.”33 In the modern age, the ... humanitarian environment is becoming increasingly complicated for aid workers due to political controversy and the sheer number of humanitarian assistance organizations.34 Conflict-related humanitarian

A Juror’s Religious Freedom Bill of Rights

The prosecution of Democrat Congresswoman Corrine Brown for campaign corruption was perhaps the most significant and dramatic political trial ever to hit Northeast Florida—and that was before the ... corruption was perhaps the most significant political trial to ever hit Northeast Florida.1 Not only was Brown a Democrat being prosecuted in a heavily Republican district, but she was also a powerful, popular

Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol

This contribution investigates the intersection between macro-level political narratives on diversity and micro-level lived experience of social inclusion and everyday interaction. The case studies ... -state nationalist sentiment? What is the impact of diversity political discourse on young adult migrant arrivals in these settings? How are macro-narratives on diversity in these regions understood and

Christian Dignity and the Overlapping Consensus

Christian dignity promoted by religious conservatives implausible as the ground of universal human rights. The theological and natural law underpinnings and the political implications of Christian dignity ... ,73 though even his critics concede he is the starting point for contemporary political philosophy.74 But one need not accept Rawls’s normative claims to recognize the descriptive insight illuminated by