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What drives major tax reform? Implications for taxing the rich

exacerbated inequality with ambiguous effects on efficiency. Finally, we outline the potential for future reforms and conclude that political conditions are more likely to instigate major change than economic ... over fundamental reforms. Our discussion in this paper shows that this preference is often the result of political considerations rather than a thorough analysis of what may be good policy aimed to

Taxing the rich (more)

scholarship and political science. The papers in this issue ask a range of research and policy questions about the way governments tax the rich. How can we measure the effective tax rates on the incomes and/or ... society as a whole, and which possible reforms in this area are feasible from an economic, political, and legal perspective. Demands to tax the rich (more) rest on the perception of rising inequality. In

Evidence to Act: LGBTIQ-Inclusive Family Violence Service Provision in Australia and the Politicisation of Data Gaps

violence services. Participants’ accounts highlight the political tensions and material repercussions of epistemic definitions of ‘evidence’ as they pertain to LGBTIQ individuals’ experiences of violence ... than ideological or political interests (Parkhurst, 2017) . It gained increased popularity as a philosophy of governance in the 1990s with the ‘New Labour’ movement in the United Kingdom (Coote et al

Researching Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW): Overcoming Gender Blindness by Improving Methodology in Compliance with Measurement Standards

perspectivas en Ética y Filosofía Política [The challenge of gender equality. New perspectives in Ethics and Political Philosophy] (pp. 15 - 42 ). Biblioteca Nueva. Ranganathan , M. , Heise , L. , Peterman , A ... no negative consequences for any group in particular. This last source of validity evidence, which has been included in the Standards for over 20 years, assumes a social and political dimension

Premeditated, Organized and Impactful: Dating Violence as a Method of Committing Hate Crimes Against LGBTQ People in Russia

philosophy as well as nationalist and far-right political agendas. He described “sotsial-tutovizm” as a “form of living in a dying society”. In his book “Restrukt” (listed as extremist material and prohibited ... Extermination) are analyzed in the literature and their key aspects are the following. Verbal rejection of the LGBTQ community was a part of negative political discourse in the mid-late 2000s. This included an

The impact of stay-at-home orders on safety and stability for women: A topical review of intimate partner violence and intimate femicide in the United States during the initial phase of COVID-19

, Latina immigrants. Implications for utilizing an intersectional framework to further examine these issues and promote social and political change are provided. Since the rates of IPV and femicide have been ... intersectional framework to further examine these issues and promote social and political change are provided. Conclusion Since the rates of IPV and femicide have been reported as increasing during COVID-19

Transforming forced displacement response through innovation

With more individuals forcibly displaced than any time since the Second World War, forced displacement has emerged as one of the defining political and humanitarian issues of the twenty-first century ... leadership to elevate new capabilities and approaches, which has been difficult given institutional status quo. Lastly, establishing innovation units within large institutions has proven a political challenge

Violence in Queer Families: Symbolic Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Russian Law

been so only by mistake, it is rather a historical occurrence which owes to concrete political and social conditions that tend to fluctuate and are generally unpredictable. Legal discourse indeed offers ... ; Kondakov, 2020) . I connect the articulation of LGBT + topics in law with recruitment of the law’s powers for political gains in contemporary Russia (Kondakov, 2022) . Although conservative forces within

Taxing the wealthy: the choice between wealth and capital income taxation

wealth can lead to a concentration of economic and political power. However, the externalities can also be positive if only the very wealthy have the means to undertake large and risky projects that are ... . Liquidity problems are the main reason why many durable goods, such as art and antiques, have historically been exempt from wealth taxation. Key to the economic and political feasibility of wealth taxes is

Family abuse targeting queer family members: An argument to address problems of visibility in local services and civic life

who are victimised by family abuse. Reasons include the relative invisibility of LGBT+ communities in strategic policy, in local political rhetoric, in local consultations about service delivery; and in ... civic and political leaders, and from practitioners; and the impacts on queer folk of their invisibility and non-acceptance. In conclusion we emphasise two areas for further work. First is the need for a

Prioritising Children and Young People with Disability in Research About Domestic and Family Violence: Methodological, Ethical and Pragmatic Reflections

vulnerability, or that vulnerability which is shared by everyone and part of being corporeal, affective beings, situational vulnerability is formed by ‘personal, social, political, economic or environmental ... ). Introduction: what is vulnerability and why does it matter for moral theory? . In C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers , & S. Dodds (Eds.), Vulnerability: new essays in ethics and feminist philosophy (pp. 1 - 32 ). UK

Improving refugee resettlement: insights from market design

many motivations for (not) resettling refugees: humanitarian, economic, or political. The goal of an improved resettlement system is to obey the quotas set by countries, though there is a necessary ... smaller hosting capacities (either due to infrastructure or finance constraints or due to political willingness) than countries, so the refugee–community problem is best modelled as one of integer

Does a progressive wealth tax reduce top wealth inequality? Evidence from Switzerland

is that many political decisions, not least about tax policy and redistribution, are taken at the country level, and that there may be a feedback loop between within-country inequality and political ... decision-making. By the same argument, since the Swiss cantons have a large degree of political autonomy, studying the evolution and determinants of wealth inequality at the sub-national level is equally

Healthcare Students’ and Educators’ Views on the Integration of Gender-Based Violence Education into the Curriculum: a Qualitative Inquiry in Three Countries

role of local socio-political contexts in shaping participants’ views. This was accounted for through the process of analysis. We utilized a combined inductive and deductive approach in our analysis ... professional duty, with many students referencing the evolving social and political context in Chile: For medicine, nursing, kinesiology, all health careers basically – on the basis that we’re the ones who see

Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence during Lockdown and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Previous studies have demonstrated that there is an increase in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) during times of crisis (e.g., financial, environmental, or socio-political situations). The COVID-19

Women’s Lived Experiences of Reproductive Coercion and Abuse

. Phenomenological approaches in general are concerned with understanding the nature or “essence” of particular phenomena as they are experienced by participants (van Manen, 1990) They have their roots in philosophy

Te Pou: An Indigenous Framework to Evaluate the Inclusion of Family Voice in Family Violence Homicide Reviews

, and regulate communal expeditions and activities, to make decisions regarding social and political matters. A person or tribe's mana can increase from successful ventures or decrease through the lack of ... and adversely impacted by colonisation and the imposition of Western patriarchal ideas. The imposition of Anglo-American epistemologies, reflective of specific cultural, socio-political, economic and

Discourses on Non-Heteronormative Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence: a Russian Media Case Study

, provides them with a political and social agency; on the other – makes them a target of political backlash and, potentially, a victim of hate crime. As Alexander (Sasha) Kondakov underlines, “many queer ... current political regime in Russia this outlet was included in the list of foreign agents in 2021. At the time of this paper being written the outlet is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation

Layers of Shame: The Impact of Shame in Lesbian and Queer Victim-Survivors’ Accounts of Violence and Help-seeking

also suggested that the progress narrative could work as a hindrance and make it harder to raise shameful issues such as IPV. Sweden is often praised as a frontrunner for LGBTQ rights and the political ... my analysis of shame and based on these findings I suggest that rather than seeing shame as merely one symptom of IPV it can be used as a fruitful political and theoretical tool to understand violence

Domestic Violence and Murder of a Transgender Women in Russian Media (the Case of Anzhela Likina)

Russia due to political persecution and went through a tough and alienating asylum system (Shtorn, & Kondakov, 2023) I find it necessary to acknowledge that as a cis man I am conscious that I am writing ... Lesbian Studies . https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160. 2023 . 2230108 . Soboleva , I. V. , & Bakhmetjev , Y. A. ( 2015 ). Political awareness and self-blame in the explanatory narratives of LGBT People amid