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Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform During Cycles of Political Retrenchment

new political climate? Looking back at some of the drivers of change over the past decade offers helpful guidance for the future—not just for this moment of flux, but for the inevitable future ... reform has been having a moment. But the political wheel never stops turning. The 2016 presidential election brought into office a new administration that embraces the perspective of an earlier era on

Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform During Cycles of Political Retrenchment

brought into office a new administration that often embraces the perspective of earlier eras on crime and punishment. How might the momentum of criminal justice reform be maintained in this new political ... having a moment. But the political wheel never stops turning. The 2016 presidential election brought into office a new administration that embraces the perspective of an earlier era on many of these

Docility and dilemmas: Mapping ‘performative evaluation’ and informal learning

acts as a political, non-neutral, and managerial form of accountability. In contrast, ‘practice evaluation’ is intended to be democratic, dialogic, and developmental. To explore this contrast, Foucault’s ... , 2020) has resulted in evaluation becoming a highly ‘political’3 disciplinary mechanism, which renders bodies docile. For the participants, there were two competing drivers for undertaking evaluation

The limits of the “system of schools” approach: Superintendent perspectives on change efforts in U.S. Catholic school systems

. We highlight in this paper the ways superintendents are forced to navigate these organizational and political limitations and suggest what the implications of this limited possibility for system-level ... these (arch)diocesan networks and how perceptions of the unchangeability of these dynamics has further constrained superintendents’ political will within these systems to attempt systemwide, mission

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

Popular Originalism? The Tea Party Movement and Constitutional Theory

The U.S. Constitution is currently the subject of a heated political debate. Tea Party activists have invoked the Constitution as the foundation of their conservative political philosophy. These ... of a heated political debate. Most notably, Tea Party activists have invoked the Constitution as the foundation of their conservative philosophy of limited government.1 They advocate a return to the

Limiting Political Contributions After McCutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s (BCRA’s) “aggregate” contribution limits—its limits on the total amounts a person may contribute to all candidates and political committees during a single election cycle. The ... invalidation of the aggregate limits. These strategies involved multiple political action committees (PACs),5 party committees, joint fundraising committees, and contributions from one campaign to another.6 The

From language of enemy to language of opportunity: Understanding teacher resistance to curriculum change in English language teaching and learning in Kyrgyzstan

political context after the demise of the Soviet Union, the lock-in practices in English language teaching still persist in Kyrgyzstan. This is because educational reforms have occurred only at a structural ... political changes in Kyrgyzstan caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, coupled with the unprecedented spread of English in expanding circle1 countries triggered by globalisation, have had a

Institutionalizing school failure: From abandoning to reintroducing a failing grade—the rationales behind Swedish grading reforms

The article aims to depict the political framing of three grading reforms in Swedish compulsory school, in terms of the political problem they are supposed to solve and what kind of attention is ... character, since they are decisive in the competition for admission to further education (Lundahl et al., 2017) . The research aim of this article is to depict the political framing of three grading

Examining the sustainable impact of urban expansion and urban expansion policies on archaeological sites: evidence from Jordan and Saudi Arabia

expansion in Jordan and Saudi Arabia and to prompt planners, policymakers and stakeholders to examine its political ramifications concerning land use and archaeological sites. It emphasizes the necessity of

Limiting Political Contributions After McCutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s (BCRA’s) “aggregate” contribution limits—its limits on the total amounts a person may contribute to all candidates and political committees during a single election cycle. The ... invalidation of the aggregate limits. These strategies involved multiple political action committees (PACs),5 party committees, joint fundraising committees, and contributions from one campaign to another.6 The

Limiting Political Contributions After McCutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s (BCRA’s) “aggregate” contribution limits—its limits on the total amounts a person may contribute to all candidates and political committees during a single election cycle. The ... invalidation of the aggregate limits. These strategies involved multiple political action committees (PACs),5 party committees, joint fundraising committees, and contributions from one campaign to another.6 The

Limiting Political Contributions After McCutcheon, Citizens United, and SpeechNow

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s (BCRA’s) “aggregate” contribution limits—its limits on the total amounts a person may contribute to all candidates and political committees during a single election cycle. The ... invalidation of the aggregate limits. These strategies involved multiple political action committees (PACs),5 party committees, joint fundraising committees, and contributions from one campaign to another.6 The

The politics of accountability

-professionalisation of public sector workers, in the proliferation of managers, in the redefinition of citizens as consumers. The implications of such reforms for politics are profound, as political legitimacy is a ... fundamental precondition for the sustainability of the welfare state and welfare state organizations are dependent on active political processes of producing legitimacy and political accountability. The term

A New Era for Judicial Retention Elections: The Rise of and Defense Against Unfair Political Attacks

partisanship and politics in both the selection and retention process. Since 2010, increasingly strident and frequent political attacks on state supreme court justices facing judicial-merit retention elections ... Founded 1948 Review Counsel, current Chair of the Kansas Bar Association?s Legislative Committee and the immediate ? ? some group?s political agenda or with public opinion. tate?s decision to elect its

Back to the future? Reflections on three phases of education policy reform in Wales and their implications for teachers

landmark events that helped shape contemporary political and public discourse. In particular, the paper examines the impact of Wales’ shifting approach to policy development on the teaching workforce and ... education, resulting in greater divergence between itself and the other ‘home nations’ of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Indeed, given the contrasting political agendas of the UK and Welsh

Theorising post-truth in the COVID era

embedded in economic and social inequalities have been more publicly visible, as have cultural and political divisions. Further, there has been a glossing over of truth-value in public discourse, with an ... inclination instead towards either responses that are health-driven and those that are motivated by economic gain or solidifying an elite status within political or business hierarchies. The result has been

The "Fixation Thesis

POLITICAL SEDUCTION OF THE LAW 5–6 (1990); KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION: TEXTUAL MEANING, ORIGINAL INTENT, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW 35 (1999) [hereinafter WHITTINGTON, INTERPRETATION ... Fixation Thesis], in THE NATURE OF LEGAL INTERPRETATION: WHAT JURISTS CAN LEARN ABOUT LEGAL INTERPRETATION FROM LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY 130 (Brian G. Slocum ed., 2017) [hereinafter LEGAL INTERPRETATION

Sense-making of autonomy and control: Comparing school leaders in public and independent schools in a Swedish case

transition: Sweden related to other western democracies and political philosophy . Journal of Curriculum Studies , 26 ( 4 ), 383 - 399 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0022027940260403 Fuchs , T. , & Wössman , L ... goal attainment and a strengthened national control system (Bergh, 2015) . Research have also claimed that Sweden’s education policy moved from a political and ideological standpoint to a more one

Bridging gaps: a systematic literature review of brokerage in educational change

coordinators, or administrators working within and organizing the broader political landscape of an educational system. In the following, we refer to this group as central office staff. These actors may set ... ) political or personal agenda in an attempt to influence practitioners in their decision-making (Jabbar et  al., 2014; Malin & Paralkar, 2017; Morel & Coburn, 2019) . Moreover, teacher educators, as a second