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Defamiliarizing Reality for Mental and Physical Subjection: Rereading Harold Pinter’s The Room and The Dumb Waiter as Political Comedies

While Pinter's earliest plays have been recognized in the modernist history of theatre as comedies of menace and his later plays as political comedies, this article argues that his earliest plays are ... political implications of such revolutionary theatrical experience, Pinter's plays are examined in the light of his unique use of defamiliarization, relying not on Brecht's traditional techniques of singing

A Case for Communitarian Meritocracy: A Critical Engagement with Michael Sandel

In this paper, I examine Sandel’s recent criticism of meritocracy. I argue that even though Sandel appeals to the rhetoric of luck in his criticism, unlike Rawls, his fundamental political aspiration ... rebirth of normative political philosophy, as well as the recent debates about global justice, began with the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice in 1971a (Gu 2019; Ma et  al. 2019,  2022

Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal

given to the enabling role played by political secrecy vehicles. Political secrecy vehicles denote arrangements that allow individuals to clandestinely exercise public authority, which is concealed by a ... bureaucratic façade. This article develops analytical categories for deconstructing political secrecy structures and pinpointing the threat they pose to anti-corruption enforcement. These structures and threats

Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality

This paper aims to examine the contours of current manifestations of political justice, in a time in which liberal democracy arrangements are more widespread than ever before. For these purposes, it ... which outmoded political justice practices are intriguingly enduring and have been apparently on the rise over the last decade. In analysing the political catalysts of these Spanish cases, the paper sheds

The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action

has caused a political and economic scandal in Malaysia. The report specifically calls out the lawyers’ role in this scandal, noting that the alleged conspirators used major US law firms to shift money ... it may be immediately apparent (to citizens and officials alike) that a country’s economy and political system would be better off without corruption, not engaging in corruption on one’s own would

The persistence of organized crime in post-caliphate Iraq: a case of crime-terror convergence?

remnants can be seen as hybrid criminal-political entities, while the Shia PMF factions cannot be defined as such in a definite manner. In their competition for power, both actors exploit local ... to be understood as far more complex, difficult to predict, shaped by socio-economic, political and geographic factors, and the degree and nature of state involvement (Omelicheva & Markowitz, 2019: 4

Social System Historical Modeling of Western Economies and its Implications for Eastern Economies

, political parties and other significant actors, and (b) apply the analytical model to construct and verify a timeline that figures major events in world development that shaped the evolution of the western ... thinkers, and natural and physical scientists. In this section we comment briefly on the political enlightenment, where we emphasize the political dimension of western philosophy and rational thought, and

A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout

voter turnout. The analysis also provides evidence that trust in parliament affects political participation and that the persistence of low educational attainment in a country, together with high ... scholars who have studied the damage that corruption does to democracy (e.g., Drapalova et al., 2019; Kubbe & Engelbert, 2018) emphasize the deterrent effect of corruption on political participation

Political crime and corruption take center stage: introductory notes

incidence of political crime, both known and unknown, is likely to exceed even the most unhinged estimates of what actually occurs in the elite world of whitecollar criminality. In short, data on the exact ... number of crimes and unethical acts committed globally by politicians and corporations are unattainable. This problem exists due to the structurally veiled nature of political criminal behavior more

Reevaluating Politicized Identity & Notions of an American Political Community in the Legal & Political Process

, Public Law and Legal Theory Commons , Race, Ethnicity and Post- 3 New York University - Washington , D.C. , USA 4 Commons, Cultural Heritage Law Commons, Election Law Commons , Ethics and Political ... Philosophy 5 Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Constitutional Law Commons , Courts Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijlse Colonial Studies Commons

Ranked Choice Voting: How Voters Have Responded to a Failing Political System

A long-standing colloquialism amongst politicians and people in the political world is “People love their congressmen but hate Congress.”4 While not a new sentiment, distrust of the political system

The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Growing Relevance of Moral Cosmopolitan Justice?

-conventional threats. The coronavirus has uncovered the unpleasant realities of the socio-economic and political structure of the global north encountering financial crises and lack of health care resources ... & Francis Group, Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844053/. Accessed on 16th May 2020 . Miller , D. 2003 . Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction . United States of America

National legislative adoption of international wildlife law after treaty ratification

of the state in the global political economy. Some nations see their environmental law making sovereignty challenged by the influence of international treaties (Goyes, 2017; Velez et al., 2021 ... implementation of commitments derived from the convention was related to the political structure of the state. In federal nations, ‘costs are equally shared between the provinces on the one hand and the federal

Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime

ecological and social consequences. Here, we examine the definition, causes and consequences of planned obsolescence by using insights from corporate crime literature, integrated with environmental philosophy ... Erasmus Initiative on Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately

Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime

ecological and social consequences. Here, we examine the definition, causes and consequences of planned obsolescence by using insights from corporate crime literature, integrated with environmental philosophy ... Erasmus Initiative on Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately

A positive feedback mechanism? Institutional responsiveness to bribery reporting by citizens in 12 African countries

"to win citizens’ trust, governments must show serious and genuine political will to fight corruption, build transparent and accountable institutions, prosecute wrongdoing and allow for citizen ... negative consequences. For instance, transparency reforms, rather than fostering institutional trust and stimulating political involvement, are often associated with inflated corruption perceptions, distrust

Global Justice and the Motivation to Give

tendency to treat contextualist morality as a localised extension of the general and abstract principle, the ‘Starship Enterprise view of political philosophy’. According to him, this view is doomed to ... irrelevance, because, “It draws a line between political philosophy proper, which involves defining concepts and setting out principles in an entirely fact-free way, and applied political theory, which takes

Serving Only to Oppress: An Intersectional and Critical Race Analysis of Constitutional Originalism Inflicting Harm

Constitution were set at the founding and have not changed or adapted since. See Marcia Coyle, ‘His Judicial Philosophy Is Mine’: Amy Barrett Touts Scalia in Remarks From Rose Garden, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL ... (Sep. 26, 2020), https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/09/26/his-judicial-philosophy-is-mine-amy-barrett-toutsscalia-in-remarks-from-rose-garden/?slreturn=20230227132623. 2023] value judgments in

Gangs, violence, and fear: punitive Darwinism in El Salvador

political contexts drive public appetite for punitive policies towards criminals. We show that President Nayib Bukele is responding to public opinion and has implemented tough on crime policies at the expense ... . Political candidates from all sides of the ideological spectrum tap into the fear of the populace to win votes, leading to punitive Darwinism. We provide an empirical assessment of which theoretically

Organizational life-cycle analysis of corporate offending: insights into how changes in business cycles interact with regulatory oversight to shape compliance and violations

business philosophy, leadership, and organizational cultures (which, we know from existing research, has a great effect on non-compliance behavior (Ewelt-Knauer et  al., 2020) . During the extensive pilot ... exchanges about the original business philosophy, and this may help them to see whether there are risks or opportunities in relation to compliance in the original business strategy. A second insight is that