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Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Textbook Tasks for Social Change: Instantiation of Development Debates and Interposition of Pedagogical Interventions in Media Literacy Education

and a political climate that is highly polarized due to intense social and economic contradictions. Both of these global and national events (i.e., unsettling pandemic and dysfunctional elections) along ... chapters dealing with textual, visual, audio, motion, and multimedia information, for instance, will forego the opportunity of making critico-political sense of the technological and technical dimensions of

People and Process: Successful Change Management Initiatives

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said πάντα ῥεῖ (Panta rhei, for everything flows, in contemporary English), and people have expanded upon this philosophy to mean the only constant in life is ... facilitate innovation to improve other performance determinants (Sue-Chan et al., 2011) . This is important as a means to an end when the environment is unstable during technology changes, political and

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Civilian Oversight of Police Through the Lens of Polarities of Democracy

if the police chief, officers (0.11%), political leaders (0.40%), and community stakeholders (0.37%) mutually understood the rationale and creation of a civilian oversight agency in their jurisdiction ... community understands the importance of civilian police oversight because we have been under a Consent Decree for the last 10 years. They do understand we don’t have the political influence that wants it to

Mass Transit Policy: Responding to COVID-19

outcome of public health, technological, economic, and political considerations. This paper provides an initial attempt to identify and discuss these four considerations as most relevant to the development ... transit needs, including public health, technological, economic, and political considerations. This paper’s goal is to provide an initial attempt to identify and discuss these four considerations as being

Road Maintenance Challenges: The Greatest Obstacle to Sustainable Development in South Sudan

projects in the hands of a few individuals with political interests because, when they become too politically controlled, they fail to perform the function. The country will fail to get value for money ... participate in road maintenance, thereby eliminating the monopoly of projects by a few individuals with political interests. The lack of independent legal instruments to support road maintenance measures poses

To Bear in Silence: How the Erasure of ‘Comfort Women’ in Taiwan Leads to the Dismissal of their Tragedy

attempted to give voice to their experiences, as well as explain the factors that contributed to the silencing of their voices, including how they have been caught as a political tool between multiple ... ” were in the context of Taiwan to understand how their part of the historical narrative has been exempted to serve as a political tool. In summary, they were sex slaves to the Japanese army during the

Political Engagement in Higher Education Curricula

Political Engagement in Higher Education Curricula Submitted to the Teaching category of JOSC Abstract As more demands are made for universities and colleges to commit to public service, curricula in ... in higher education may need to include the development of knowledge of and skills for political engagement. In an interview study, students, faculty members, and alumni at Walden University reflected

Social Change and The Greek Welfare State Crisis (2010-2020)

Journal of Social Change Social Change and the Greek Welfare State Crisis (2010-2020) Nikos Kourachanis 0 Recommended Citation 0 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences , Athens ... economic situation. This gave the financial markets an opportunity to attack the Greek state. Consequently, the European Union’s (EU’s) dominant political forces used debt as a tool of control (Fouskas

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

Conceptual Framework for a Curriculum in Social Change

domain (scholarship, systemic thinking, and reflection), four in the skills domain (application, advocacy, collaboration, and political engagement), and three in the affective domain (ethics, commitment ... full time in various political action campaigns in New York, New York, when he had the opportunity to enroll in university courses. In an unpublished article he wrote at the time, ?Macro: Social Change

The Virtuality of Territorial Borders

If architecture is politics, then the rise of data-driven computing systems will transform the course, if not the conditions of possibility for the political. Provoked by the work of artists Ruti ... Toronto Law Journal, no. 2, pp. 196-224. R. Sela & M. Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (2016). The distinction between 'politics' and 'the political' stems from C. Lefort, The Political

Book Review: Social Changes in a Global World by Ulrike Schuerkens

. The author examines how social transformations and changes are connected to issues of power and political influence; how transformations and changes have been influenced by concepts of modernity ... , they will find plenty of material for reflection. The author looks at how social transformations and changes are connected to issues of power and political influence; how transformations and changes have

The Golden Standard: How the “Model Minority” Stereotype Harms Asian Americans

with very similar histories. The two groups are refugees and fled their homelands due to political tensions, and in order to survive in a foreign country, both employed traditions and customs

Climate-Induced Relocation and Social Change in Keta, Ghana

for the merger of philosophy and social science to best explore what is wrong with current social reality, identify the actors to change it, and provide both clear norms for criticism and achievable ... -saving process. Nicholson (2014) argued that climate change is a growing concern and a prominent political and economic issue that has forced policymakers to focus on developing both mitigative and

The ‘Social Market Economy’ in a (Heterogeneous) Social Europe: Does it Make a Difference?

financial and migration crises, serves only to highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality. We identify two main reasons for this, namely a lack of legal competence and a lack of political will. We then ... greater calls for the EU to respond to these challenges, at the very time when there is a lack of significant political will to act. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that some perceive the EU to

Between the Dog and the Divine: Resistance and conventionalism in cosmopolitanism

a plan for overcoming them; but in Diogenes a political programme that cannot attain its own ends, and in Zeno a political solution that comes unmoored from its foundations. Today, the International ... defines the cosmopolitanism position as follows: ?The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be

Problem-Solving Criminal Justice: Developments in England and Wales

essential. The barriers and obstacles preventing a more extensive application of problem-solving criminal justice is also discussed, drawing on points connected to sentencing parameters, ‘political will’ and ... considerations of legal principle and sentencing parameters, issues of politics and ?political will? and on aspects of legal culture. It is argued there are legal cultural impediments to advancing this approach