Hydroelectric dams produce electricity, provide flood control, and improve agricultural irrigation. But the building and operation of these dams frequently involve forced displacement
of local communities. Displacement often has an outsized impact on indigenous persons, who are disproportionately poor, repressed, and politically marginalized. [...]
Financial regulation has traditionally been "hard": national legislatures and regulators (and sometimes international bodies) require certain kinds of behavior and forbid others,
on pain of business sanctions, fines, or even criminal penalties. When a financial crisis happens, the usual after-the-fact response is more hard regulation-new laws, [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 338: Protest Participation in Contemporary Europe: Individual Predispositions and National Mobilisation Context Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci15050338
Authors: Suzana Turcu [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 337: All Flourishing [In Rural School–Community Partnerships] Is Mutual Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci15050337 Authors: Bonnie
Stelmach [...]
The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive
advance. In the face of repeated recent high-profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is [...]
Discourses of ‘brotherhoods’ prevail in public safety sectors and remain empirically limited regarding correctional officers (COs). We nuance the CO ‘brotherhood’,
referred to as the CO collectivity, to avoid the gender-exclusion of the term ‘brotherhood’, specifically to interpret the solidarity (or lack thereof) shaping [...]
Common Law World Review, Ahead of Print. This article critically evaluates the Spectrum Approach as applied in the appellate review of findings of foreign law. The Spectrum
Approach posits that the degree of deference to trial judges’ determinations of foreign law depends on the analogousness of ... [...]
