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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

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

A Review of From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: The History and Philosophy of Archaeology

From Antiquarian to Archaeologist brings together fourteen of Tim Murray’s papers on the history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology published over two decades. The volume displays many of the

The Ruin of a State is Freedom of Conscience: Religion, (In)Tolerance, and Independence in the Spanish Monarchy

Hispanic clerics, intellectuals, and radicals avidly discussed religious tolerance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For most, liberty, political independence, and freedom of the ... liberal thought, as evidenced by the work of Pedro Mariano Ruiz in 1788, continued to display internal contradictions and tensions between economic and political reform on the one hand and social reform on

A Pioneering Experiment: Dialoghi di Archeologia between Marxism and Political Activism

growing middle class, of social modernization and political stagnation. This innovative editorial project, which merged historical and archaeological research with civil protest and political activism, was

Social and Political Factors in Post-Colonial Indian Archaeology: The Case of Sanghol, Punjab

In this paper, I present the case of Sanghol, Punjab, in Indian archaeology to highlight the influence of social and political factors on the interpretation of archaeological data and the ... , I show how geopolitical tensions and the desire for internal political stability influenced archaeological practices in post-colonial India. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s

When Archaeology Begins: The Cultural and Political Context of Chinese Archaeological Thought

century, believed that it had to destroy Confucianism and come up with a new philosophy. However, with the arrival of many different kinds of western ideas, such as evolution and diffusion, Chinese ... placed Chinese archaeologists in a difficult position ideologically within the political context of a Chinese nationalism based on the idea of progress. Their solution was, in essence, to transpose

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

Not Just "Franco's Spain" - The Spanish Political Landscape During Re-Emergence Through the Pact of Madrid

leave for the US to station military bases in Spanish territory. The newfound relationship with the US brought European and global recognition, ending Spain’s decade long political quarantine, and marked ... Portuguese Historical Studies. For more information , please contact NOT JUST “FRANCO’S SPAIN”: THE SPANISH POLITICAL LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PACT OF MADRID JACOB FOX WATKINS

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

Review of: Richard Purkiss, Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain. The Valencian Anarchist Movement

development of the anarchist and anarchosyndicalist movements in Valencia over the twenty years prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, seamlessly intertwining social, political and ... century origins of the anarcho-syndicalist movement within each city’s economic, social and political context. They both then tell the story of the movements’ development through the eyes of the militants

Exploring North-South Identities Using NLP: The Image of Spain in the German Weekly Die Zeit

socioeconomic situations in media datasets like newspapers, historical archives, political discourses and an unlimited number of publications; that is to say anything published or translated in text. This work ... around Anderson and Gellner identified fundamental changes in the political and socio-economic environment when identity politics became the principal instrument the state used to secure its legitimacy.1

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

Rodolfo Lanciani’s Dismissal

Italian state on issues related to owning, caring for, and displaying the nation’s antiquities. Significant social, economic, and political changes in the decades after the establishment of the new nation ... reveal various personal, social, economic and political pressures on those engaged in the excavations in the city. Academic training programs in the new discipline of archaeology were not yet in

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

The Wedding Processions of the Dukes of Braganza (1633) and Medina Sidonia (1640): Power and Fiesta in Portugal and Spain

This article explores the political meanings of the symbolic languages of the nobility of the Hispanic Monarchy. Specifically, it analyzes the ceremonies and festivities organized by two prominent ... Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. For more information , please contact Recommended Citation Part of the European History Commons; Political History Commons; and the Social History

Town and Country: Connecting Late Medieval Castilian Urban Experience with Sixteenth-Century Colonization of the Americas

the emergence of an original urban model of secular construction and proven political success to ensure control of territory and to govern heterogeneous populations. This Castilian model influenced the ... , but the underlying political and economic drivers for city formation differed. Cities and towns of various sizes in Castile controlled and defended large territories, and townspeople actively worked as

Prince Baltasar Carlos´s Chamber in Las Meninas

In order to be a good ruler, one had to attain three kinds of prudence: Self prudence, the control of body and soul; Domestic prudence, to rule the family; and Political prudence, to rule the ... that the Habsburg monarchy was structured through the organisation of the royal Household. The Household was governed like a small-scale Republic and the children were trained for their future political

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