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Reconceptualizing Presidents

The incorporation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into Taiwan’s domestic law provided death row inmates with the legal basis to submit requests for the President’s mercy ... rendering decisions in support of the Presidents' inaction. The court justifications for these decisions were that the clemency power falls under the executive prerogative, and that it is a political question

Toward a New Political Project: Resetting by Reconceptualizing

meaningful alternatives to transform the system. It then suggests that a total reset is required and offers an innovative theoretical framework, to conceptualize the new political project, that can transcend ... population out of absolute economic poverty has been regarded as an expression of political meritocracy’s ‘success.’ Because political meritocracy corresponds with classic Chinese political philosophy

Reset or Revolution? Contemporary Problems of Political Stability and Some Ancient Solutions

In this article I take a critical look into the challenges faced by the contemporary social, political, and economic scene in Europe and the United States after nearly eighty years of political ... injustice, they ought to be suspended. Neither are they bad—it is thanks to the rules that the world escapes anarchy after the reset. From the perspective of political philosophy, the biblical model of reset

Coproducing health research with Indigenous peoples

, divergent ethical standards, strategic and political differences, and the broader impact of processes and outcomes. To illustrate these ideas, we present examples involving New Zealand’s Māori communities and ... . Political arguments, which are often made less explicitly, center on empowerment and inclusion of, for example, marginalized groups or center on reducing negative stereotypes, such as those held by

The limits of acceptable political influence over the FDA

relationship among science, values and politics has often been oversimplified. The FDA cannot make decisions on the basis of science alone2, and political considerations sometimes do have a role to play. Rather ... severity and medical need. The dual nature of the FDA’s decision-making means that it cannot avoid political considerations, by which we mean governmental value judgments about competing goods and interests

Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in a Divided Society: South Africa’s National Peace Accord in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy

‘infrastructure for peace’ featuring inclusive peace committees at national, regional, and local levels. The Accord freed a political logjam, allowing constitutional talks to commence, and its peace structures then ... philosophy of community policing. These provisions also applied to the military when acting in support of the police. The government undertook not to use covert operations to promote or undermine any political

Promoting gender equity in the scientific and health workforce is essential to improve women’s health

(the under-representation of women in senior management or political roles). For example, women represent only 25% of Ministers of Health and 23% of heads of delegations at the World Health Assembly7 ... their implications for women’s health. •• Promoting women’s political leadership, enabling diverse women to lead in different fields. •• Implementing affirmative action across political spheres, policy

Turkey’s Map of Emotions and Its Political Reflections

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary scientific field that that combines politics and psychology to explore the effect of emotions in politics. It examines the backgrounds of political ... Sayar , Gokben; Unubol, Huseyin; Ulke Aribogan, Deniz; and Tarhan, Nevzat (2020) "Turkey's Map of 2 Gokben Hizli Sayar Uskudar University , Istanbul Part of the Political Science Commons, Psychology

Investment in African research and development will boost health and economic growth

yet to be realized. When politicians ignore science, it can reflect a failure of governance and political systems. Some African countries have challenging political systems, including ... electionsthatarenotfreeandfair,longserving leaders, and undemocratic political systems. With these challenges, one could argue that African countries are not represented by leaderswhohavethepopulation’sinterestatheart. However

Referendum Metrics: the numbers game, Chapter Five from Perils and Prospects of a United Ireland

politicians across the ethno-national divide, a range of academics and political commentators, and religious leaders. The context for the chapter is the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (B/GFA), which ended thirty ... contentious. If you layered that on an already volatile political situation, it could be very dangerous.1 – Naomi Long, Minister of Justice, Alliance Party leader There’s a good chance of a border poll within

Closing the global gap in adolescent mental health

violations, negative socioeconomic, cultural, political including unequal access to education and and environmental circumstances. health services, unnecessary separation from At the end of 2023, the World

Using Rights to Deepen Democracy: Making Sense of the Road to Legal Abortion in Argentina

justice. First, beginning with the transition to democracy, this study traces shifts in opportunity structures including political and institutional changes; key judicial decisions as well as legal reforms ... interruption of pregnancy, “IVE”, for its acronym in Spanish), and multi-party collaboration, in a highly polarized political arena, had 1. See Hernán Gullco, One Year of the IVE (Voluntary Interruption of

Reinventing Multilateral Order

that serves the interests of human civilization and not the nation-states. The new grid can be grounded in the philosophy that the world should be treated as a family. It is utopian to expect the nation ... multilateral framework for resolving political and security conflicts between the superpowers. The structural weaknesses of the multilateral order have been accentuated in recent years by a wave of nationalism

Reforming the Approach to Political Opinion in the Refugees Convention

ARTICLE REFORMING THE APPROACH TO POLITICAL OPINION IN THE REFUGEES CONVENTION Brienna Bagaric * ABSTRACT The number of displaced persons in the world is at an unprecedented high. There are more than ... fear of persecution for one of five very specific reasons. These reasons are race, ethnicity, particular social group, religion and political opinion. If these grounds are interpreted narrowly it

Judicial Independence and Accountability: Withstanding Political Stress in Poland

PiS came back to power in 2015, their leaders understood that bringing the judicial system under political control was crucial to the success of their other policy aims.22 PiS?s philosophy and policy ... philosophy and both, to some degree, included a broad spectrum of political interests from right, left, labor, and so on.60 In 2005, the PiS party candidates received a quarter of the vote, sufficient for a

Damnatio memoriae: On Deleting the East from Western History

Greek science and philosophy, however, began in the twelfth century but occurred mainly in the thirteenth century. These works were first translated into Syriac and Arabic in the eighth and ninth ... Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 32 : Iss. 2 New England Journal of Public Policy Koert Debeuf 0 0 Part of the Arabic Studies Commons, History of Philosophy Commons, Islamic Studies Commons Public

Multi-Faceted Risk: Exempting Trafficked Asylum Seekers from “Safe Third County” Agreements in States Not in Compliance with TVPA Minimum Standards

, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and are ultimately seeking refugee status from a receiving State.1 Generally, asylum seekers face an 1. See Anne P ... significant efforts to do so.27 Finally, the “Special Cases” categorization is an unofficial raking for States experiencing ongoing political instability.28 21. See id. at 77–607 (“Country Narratives”). 22

The Art and Artifacts of Solidarity

underground network of publishers, distributors, and consumers of art operated in concert, embedded in the socio-political fabric of the movement. Its distributed organization and agility (very often the ... aspirations (Fig. 3). Poster in support of the families of political prisoners published by the Comité de Coordination du Syndicat Solidarność. France, circa 1982. Thomas Sarnecki’s poster for the June 1989

The IDEAL framework for surgical robotics: development, comparative evaluation and long-term monitoring

widely adopted innovations. Collection and analysis should be fully automated, with harmonized coding language and core reporting and outcome measures. Regulatory, political and commercial barriers may ... University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. 7NIHR Coordinating Centre and Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. 8Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney

Syndemics and clinical science

The theory of syndemics has received increasing attention in clinical medicine since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the synergistic interactions of the disease with pre-existing political ... uniformly distributed across populations. The pandemic has demonstrated how political actions to support public health and the historical patterning of chronic health conditions are situated within contexts