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The incorporation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into Taiwan’s domestic law provided death row inmates with the legal basis to submit requests for the President’s mercy ... rendering decisions in support of the Presidents' inaction. The court justifications for these decisions were that the clemency power falls under the executive prerogative, and that it is a political question
Why do some countries escape the political resource curse while others do not? Most scholars argue that avoiding the claimed anti-democratic effects of natural resources, especially oil, largely
frequently taken place on the margins of the disciplines of sociology and political science. Yet contributions from disciplinary social sciences bring unique theoretical perspectives, carry particular ... Fund, and U.S. Agency for International Development. He showed that NGOs were involved not just in political projects attached to a larger project of democratization but also a deeply economic one
countries have taken notably different approaches regarding the inclusion of private actors in their expanding healthcare systems. In this article, we explore the political causes and consequences of partial ... international coercion, e.g., by the World Bank. The introduction of these private options has since led to the growth of private hospital and insurance markets and the political entrenchment of partial
to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to
Reductions in premature mortality are widely attributed to economic, educational, and medical factors. This study contributes to our understanding of the influence of political factors in preventing ... the annual, sex-specific standard deviation of the age-at-death distribution across 162 countries. We apply dynamic panel model analyses to assess the association between political liberalization and
By now, most political systems around the world hold regular multiparty elections of different quality and type. However, we know relatively little about the effect of elections on corruption ... corruption has, since its take-off in the mid-1990s, been strongly guided by analytical frameworks that emphasize the role of formal political institutions in explaining the prevalence of corrupt practices
associated with homogenous conditions like, respectively, leftist authoritarian regimes and rich democracies with stable economies. Political economy; Qualitative comparative analysis; Capital flow management ... capital controls had lost their effectiveness to shield national economies, many economists and political scientists passed to anticipate a global move towards capital account openness (Andrews 1994
Forced to think by recent socio-environmental events and uprisings in Latin American latitudes, we aspire in this writing, a gesture of intervention and political experimentation in the act, to ... in the act, to speculate a series of propositions of political imagination by establishing alliances with cinematic modes of experience that unfold through variable materialities and surfaces of
Forced to think by recent socio-environmental events and uprisings in Latin American latitudes, we aspire in this writing, a gesture of intervention and political experimentation in the act, to ... in the act, to speculate a series of propositions of political imagination by establishing alliances with cinematic modes of experience that unfold through variable materialities and surfaces of
political, economic and cultural dynamics of contemporary societies. Faced with this, we propose that a theoretical counterpoint to computational colonialism can be found in the “planetary turn” that the ... : Polity Press. [ Links ] Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2022. The Political Philosophy of AI. An Introduction. Cambdrige: Polity Press. [ Links ] Coleman, Danielle. 2019. Digital Colonialism: The 21st Century
political, economic and cultural dynamics of contemporary societies. Faced with this, we propose that a theoretical counterpoint to computational colonialism can be found in the “planetary turn” that the ... : Polity Press. [ Links ] Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2022. The Political Philosophy of AI. An Introduction. Cambdrige: Polity Press. [ Links ] Coleman, Danielle. 2019. Digital Colonialism: The 21st Century
recent micro-level research by conceptualizing households with remittances as a transnational dispersed interest group in the political economy of taxation. Remittances increase recipients’ wealth and ... Michael D. Tyburski 0 0 Department of Political Science, Kansas State University , 802 Mid Campus Dr. South, 101D Calvin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 , USA Do international remittances increase
them to solve unrelated, discrete, short-term political problems. Understanding the latter is key to understanding the characteristics of many real reforms, and hence their fate. We introduce the concept ... & Government, London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE , UK 1 Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton
has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal
by the nation-state towards economic development. The findings align with the institutionalist political economy views that institutions are the ultimate overseers that allow the market to operate ... institutional political economy approach. Institutional change; Strategic choices; Vertical integration; Human capital; Intangible assets; Institutional political economy; Russia Introduction Emerging
political ties or learn to accommodate unexpected disruptions. Yet in the sphere of environmental policy implementation, businesses across the spectrum are starting to complain that local environmental ... guarantees (Clarke 2003, 106; Benson 1988) . In China, political leaders have cultivated this predictability through internal mandates that reward local officials for economic growth above all policies
This article investigates why, in two different political and institutional contexts, leftist governing parties became agents of empowered inclusion, boosting the capacity of subordinate social ... . To explain how and why this happened, it highlights the ambiguous nature of party-society linkages. While societal ties are necessary for sustained significant progress in social and political
This article reinterprets Silva Castro's work in light of his political and ideological trajectory, as a project of conservative modernization of literary criticism. A spiritual vision of literature
