... for legislative action and aligns Bratman’s framework more closely with the pragmatic realities of legislative assemblies. Legal Interpretation Statute Law Positive Political Theory Legislative Studies Michael Bratman Group Agency What makes it the case that certain policies and not others have been...

... health constructivism international institutions International Relations theory international political theory The role of norms has been increasingly examined in International Relations, given their influence on driving policy goals, strategies and governance arrangements. Norms are defined...

... attention to politics. polarization political theory civic education This is where empirical research comes in. Hopefully, the more social scientists can demonstrate what works in practice, the more policymakers can be convinced to implement effective civic education—including curricula that promote...

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... is rather unique. It can be damaging to democracy worldwide unless it is mobilized for the construction of broader anti-war coalitions. international society Russia European security East-West relations global governance international political theory This article is part of the special section...

... law Political theory Debate about the separation between public and private law—whether it exists at all and, if it does, what its nature might be—has been a staple of legal theory for centuries. In Morton Horwitz’s well-known account, while the distinction was drawn in some mid-nineteenth century...

... political theory ethics global health international development social justice Despite the plausibility of this claim, it rests on a misguided understanding of slavery and its history. There were many defences of slavery on the grounds of the good intentions of slave-owners and good outcomes for those...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This article proposes a new approach to the political theory of migration: the ethics of migration policy dilemmas. The core of this new...

... intelligence journalism normative theory political theory post-discipline Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 10.13039/501100000155 430-2018-00809 Remarking that communication research is increasingly fragmented among many subfields and theoretical approaches ( Craig, 2015...

... and conclude by advancing an original, alternative and hybridised model of ‘the people in question’. constitutional theory citizenship legal philosophy political theory public international law ‘The constitutional citizen is a central figure for understanding many dimensions of and tensions within modern...

... and touch upon, as the symposium demonstrates, the empirics, and the impact of international politics writ large, from finance to terrorism to violence. gender international political theory International Relations theory Is there a straight line? Is there a line which we can draw on/through from sex...

... Counterinsurgency Afghanistan Interpretive lenses, Political Theory Accurately perceiving and understanding the world prior to engaging with it are fundamental requisites for astute policymaking. These first-order ontological and epistemological tasks necessitate that policymakers have an understanding of what...

... constitutional theory political theory political constitutionalism The great institutions of government under a parliamentary constitution are regularly said to be government, Parliament, and judiciary. The relationships between them, but less so within them, receive sustained attention from public lawyers...

... of a public wrong. criminal law criminalisation political theory public wrongs responsibility Debate has long raged about the proper limits of the criminal law. On first encountering this debate, one may be forgiven for thinking that one faces the following dilemma: either one lines up alongside James...

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... is high, and an issue important to voters, this ability is substantially reduced. By approaching copyright law development in this way, it is possible to reconceptualise the role of lobbying in the EU legislative process. copyright EU law legislative process political theory salience ACTA On 4 July...

... between the concept of the “border” and policies aimed at managing human mobility from the perspective of political theory. Assuming that there is still no Political Theory of Borders in the strict sense, in this article I will argue that in order to establish its foundations, border must be considered...

... solidarity in Section 2 , and then applies it to the case of free movement of persons in Section 3 . distributive justice EU law political theory Solidarity has long been a fundamental value underpinning the project of European integration. The Preamble to the Treaty Establishing the European Coal...

.... Assisted-dying Euthanasia Assisted suicide Physician-assisted suicide Medical law End of life law Political theory Socio-legal analysis Abstract This paper provides a reflective analysis of the nature of normative critiques of law generally, and within medical law specifically. It first seeks...

... citizenship proposed by Elizabeth Cohen. Additionally, the paper explores aspects of discipline associated with the diagnosis, as well as distributional pathologies resulting from the application of the diagnosis in potentially biased ways. ADHD mental health political theory...