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In recent decades, the rapid emergence of new political leaders capturing growing social discontent with populist promises has highlighted elements of the internal fragility of democracy. Schumpeter ... -making: the limited use of “conscious rationality” by voters and the potential unfairness of political leaders. These two elements introduce systematic distortions into the process of collective decision
office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
is scrutinized under the framework of entangled political economy, revealing its origins in a process of bank and political bargains. The account clarifies the process by which the political and ... Runs . In: Boettke P, Herzberg R , Kogelmann B (eds.) The political economy & social philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom . Rowman and Littlefield , London Patrick M , Wagner R ( 2015 ) From mixed
markets maximize or minimize market outcomes and argues that they enable harmony between individual and common interests. According to the political-cultural approach, markets are political arenas with ... political-cultural approach fulfill critical-rationalist requirements. Therefore, the paper compares them and finds that there are reasons to prefer the political-cultural approach and to interpret the
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
the most gender equal countries. We show that gender inequalities in economic participation and opportunity as well as in political empowerment are the main drivers of this interaction effect. We find ... ) , gender inequality may also have a heterogeneous impact on the types of entrepreneurship. Gender inequality could introduce systematic distortions at multiple levels of an economic, social, and political
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
restrictions and transaction cost, which may change over time quite drastically due to political action, technological and financial innovations and cultural changes. The growing importance of liabilities as ... fall. Both political measures as part of neoliberalism as much as genuine economic forces can be put forward here (see 6 It could be argued that the relative increase of financial assets in the balance
developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders
implications for climate change originating from industry emissions in the North are investigated with an agent-based model. The model serves as a testbed for simulation experiments with evolutionary political ... fragmented production system. The evolutionary process of political economic globalization leads to complex value chains regarding natural resource extraction and capital good production in particular. Final
adoption is primarily explained by extra-economic characteristics such as educational attainment, institutional environment, political stability, labour market structure, financial market development, and ... determined exogenously by parameters affecting the ability to adopt technology or the capacity to innovate, which are determined by the political and institutional environment (Acemoglu et al., 2006; Parente
Writing as a collaborative process’ is the major philosophy of writing instruction in the contemporary university writing center. The view of writing as a process, not as a product, puts the emphasis ... tutee revise a paper ?orally? through talk and what it means to instruct writing by talk, not by text, for the work of the tutorial in the frame of the process-oriented philosophy of writing instruction
Writing as a collaborative process’ is the major philosophy of writing instruction in the contemporary university writing center. The view of writing as a process, not as a product, puts the emphasis ... tutee revise a paper ?orally? through talk and what it means to instruct writing by talk, not by text, for the work of the tutorial in the frame of the process-oriented philosophy of writing instruction
Writing as a collaborative process’ is the major philosophy of writing instruction in the contemporary university writing center. The view of writing as a process, not as a product, puts the emphasis ... tutee revise a paper ‘orally’ through talk and what it means to instruct writing by talk, not by text, for the work of the tutorial in the frame of the process-oriented philosophy of writing instruction
government capable of working notwithstanding a low degree of conscious rationality among its citizens. Given this condition, the process of political communication and persuasion can lead to two very ... effectiveness of competition, which can advance the rational elements in the political debate and the self-determination of the citizens' will: a slow process that - he warns - may be effective only in the long
later bureaucratic policing institutions through taxes and political influence.25 In the North, those “mercantile interests” were “commercial elites” who wanted to transfer the costs of protecting their ... equal human, economic, and political rights.39 Meanwhile, police in general, including in the North, steadily grew into pervasive control mechanisms over an “underclass” comprised “primarily of the poor