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Myanmar/Burma: Inside challenges, outside interests. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2010.
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Price, Martin F., and N. Butt. Mountain people, forests and trees: Strategies for balancing local management and outside interests : synthesis of an electronic conference of the Mountain Forum, April 12 - May 14, 1999. Mountain Forum, 2000.
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Outside lobbying: Public opinion and interest group strategies. Princeton University Press, 1998.
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Chari, V. V. Inside money, outside money and short term interest rates. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.
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Roberts, Christopher. British Extraterritoriality in Korea 1884 – 1910. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781912961276.
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Filling an important gap in extraterritoriality studies and in the history of Anglo-Korean relations, this benchmark study examines Britain’s exercise of extraterritorial rights in Korea from 1884 until Korea’s formal annexation by Japan in 1910. It shows how the treaty provisions—which provided for Britain’s ideal extra-territorial regime—were influenced by Britain’s considerably greater experience in Japan beginning in 1859. The caseload proved miniscule in the absence of any large British commercial or maritime presence. Nevertheless, it provides an insight into extra-territoriality’s operation outside major commercial centres and ports. Britain’s protection of Chinese interests in Korea in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 is also covered.
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Dergunova, Viktoriya, and Anastasiya Prokopova. Analysis of legal regulation and judicial practice of resolving disputes between parents about children. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1218051.
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The monograph is a comprehensive study of the current practice of resolving cases on determining the place of residence of children, the procedure for communicating with them separately living parents and other relatives; restriction and deprivation of parental rights; on the departure of children outside the Russian Federation and return within the framework of the Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction of 1980, the Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition and Enforcement and Cooperation in relation to Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of children of 1996.The relations that develop between the child and parents, the child and the court, parents and the court, as well as parents as parties to the process are analyzed. The central place is occupied by the study of the content of the concept of the best interests of the child as a guarantee of the protection of his rights and the vector of development of the current legislation. The cases of abuse of parental rights and improper performance (or non-performance) of parental duties, illustrated by current judicial practice, are considered. The analysis is presented: measures of family legal responsibility, including restriction and deprivation of parental rights in connection with non-execution of a court decision on the upbringing of a child; features of the application of principle 6 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in resolving disputes about the place of residence of children; the possibility of taking interim measures in disputes between parents about upbringing; the ratio of legal and psychological categories in child-parent relations in order to apply special knowledge; the procedure for conducting forensic examinations in these categories of cases. Finally, the possibilities of out-of-court settlement of some family disputes, including through mediation, are investigated.
 For a wide range of readers interested in the rights of the child. It will be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools.
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Goetschel, Laurent. Small States Inside and Outside the European Union Interests and Policies. Springer, 1998.
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Laurent, Goetschel, and Schweizerische Friedensstiftung, eds. Small states inside and outside the European Union: Interests and policies. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
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Hillis, Newell Dwight. The Importance of Time, Exercise, Amusements, Music, Travel, and Outside Interests. Kessinger Publishing, 2005.
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Benvenisti, Eyal, and Georg Nolte, eds. Community Interests Across International Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825210.001.0001.
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This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others, namely third states or their citizens when they form and implement their policies, negotiate agreements, and in general conduct their relations with other states. The contributions to this book also inquire whether international law imposes on states in certain situations not only the duty to consider the interests of people outside their territory or control but also the duty to accommodate them—at least to a certain extent. The book considers various manifestations of what has been described as community interests in most areas regulated by international law. Accordingly, this book takes stock of the state of contemporary international law and observes the extent to which the law has in fact evolved from a legal system based on more or less specific consent and aimed at promoting particular interests of states to one that is more generally oriented toward collectively protecting common interests and values. By systematically covering different areas of law, we are asking in each area whether states are required to take into account the interests and rights of third states (or of the persons under their jurisdiction or control). The book does not provide clear answers in favor of a simple progress narrative, but assesses the degree to which elements of one or the other paradigm coexist and interact in different fields of international law.
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Magda, Raczynska. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198796138.003.0001.
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This book examines the proprietary protection of the key forms of proprietary interests arising in commercial transactions. The focus is on the so-called lesser proprietary interests, interests which are less than absolute interests and are created in favour of suppliers of goods under a contract of sale with title-based interests and consensual security interests. The book considers tracing, the process of identifying an asset later in time in relation to an asset earlier in time. Chapters discuss the legal structure of proprietary interests, the ways in which those proprietary interests are lost, how new assets can derive from other assets, the default rules governing proprietary interests in derived assets outside contract and outside misapplication of assets, and the issues with contracts that provide for proprietary interests in derived assets. The book also analyses issues that arise from proprietary claims to derived assets where the originally held asset was misapplied.
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Gundy, Bill Van. Basketball: Outside Shooting (High Interest Books). Children's Press (CT), 2000.
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Gundy, Bill Van. Basketball: Outside Shooting (High Interest Books). Children's Press (CT), 2000.
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Galera, Giulia. Social and Solidarity Co-operatives. Edited by Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi, and Carlo Borzaga. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684977.013.12.
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Over the past decades, new types of co-operatives with declared social goals have emerged in several countries in and outside Europe. Their development is above all connected to the engagement of co-operatives in the supply of general-interest services, which are carried out beyond the ‘boundaries’ of the co-ops’ membership, undermining the traditional model of co-operatives based on a single stakeholding system and on identifying members and users, and being ready to have additional bearers of interests sharing the duties and benefits of the organization. Drawing on selected country studies, this chapter focuses on new types of co-operatives with declared social goals, often turning into important providers of welfare and general-interest services and facilitators of work integration, which contribute to local development significantly. Selected countries where co-operatives have institutionalized their concern for community so as to pursue explicit general interest aims include Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Greece, and South Korea.
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Mills, R. J. W. The Common Sense of a Poet. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783909.003.0007.
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This chapter examines the writing and content of James Beattie’s (1735–1803) best-selling Essay on Truth (1770) in terms of his motivations and interests in the late 1760s. The Essay was intended to be a mocking attack on recent sceptical philosophy, with Hume as the central target. The chapter argues that Beattie’s arguments emerged out of the intellectual milieu of 1760s Aberdeen, but were influenced greatly by his interest in the literary arts. The latter framed his particular understanding of the ‘science of human nature’ as something best studied by poets, novelists, and historians and not introspective philosophers. Moreover, Beattie is argued not to be a fearful provincial author railing against the commercial life of Edinburgh and London, but a man deeply angered by recent philosophy from Descartes to Hume and who had many supporters in and outside of Aberdeen pressing him to publish his pugilistic Essay.
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Buchak, Lara, Dean W. Zimmerman, and Philip Swenson, eds. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 9. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845492.001.0001.
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This is the ninth volume of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. As with earlier volumes, these essays follow the tradition of providing a non-sectarian and non-partisan snapshot of the subdiscipline of philosophy of religion. This subdiscipline has become an increasingly important one within philosophy over the last century, and especially over the past half century, having emerged as an identifiable subfield with this timeframe along with other emerging subfields such as the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. This volume continues the initial intention behind the series of attracting the best work from the premier philosophers of religion, as well as including work by top philosophers outside this area when their work and interests intersect with issues in the philosophy of religion. This inclusive approach to the series provides an opportunity to mitigate some of the costs of greater specialization in our discipline, while at the same time inviting wider interest in the work being done in the philosophy of religion.
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Kvanvig, Jonathan L., ed. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 8. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806967.001.0001.
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This is the eighth volume of the Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. As with earlier volumes, these essays follow the tradition of providing a non-sectarian and non-partisan snapshot of the subdiscipline of philosophy of religion. This subdiscipline has become an increasingly important one with philosophy over the last century, and especially over the past half century, having emerged as an identifiable subfield with this timeframe along with other emerging subfields such as the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. This volume continues the initial intention behind the series of attracting the best work from the premier philosophers of religion, as well as including work by top philosophers outside this area when their work and interests intersect with issues in the philosophy of religion. This inclusive approach to the series provides an opportunity to mitigate some of the costs of greater specialization in our discipline, while at the same time inviting wider interest in the work being done in the philosophy of religion.
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Krasner, Stephen D. The Persistence of State Sovereignty. Edited by Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, and Adam Sheingate. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662814.013.31.
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Fundamental changes in foundational international institutions, from one kind of structure to another have primarily been precipitated by threats to the core security interests of powerful actors. In the contemporary international system there is no opportunity outside of Europe for a bargaining process that would lead to a transformation of the basic norms and rules of sovereignty. Nevertheless, departures from conventional sovereignty have always been present and will persist, possibly become more frequent. Sovereignty, like every other international system, has always been characterized by organized hypocrisy.
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McCauley, Darren. Interest Groups. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.19.
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State-centric Anglo-American studies continue to dominate the interest group landscape (Baumgartner and Leech, 1998; Jordan and Maloney, 2007; Truman, 1951). As a commanding “outside-in” pressure on French scholarship, a long debate on defining France on the pluralism–corporatism spectrum has ensued (Keeler and Hall, 2001; Wilson, 1987; 2008). The exceptional nature of interest representation in France has inspired a plethora of state-centric modeling. This chapter argues that an “inside-out” influence is gaining momentum, whereby French political sociological accounts underline the primacy of group behavior (Courty, 2006; Offerlé, 2009; Mathieu, 2009). Active in Europeanization research (Saurugger, 2009), and social movement theory (Fillieule and Tartakowsky, 2014), French scholars are leading the way in bringing the debate on interest representation beyond Anglo-American state-centric models.
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Zoran, Stambolovski. 32 Sweden. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808589.003.0032.
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This chapter discusses the law of set-off in Sweden. Set-off in Sweden has developed through case law and legal commentary although legislation has been considered necessary in certain areas such as bankruptcy. The legal landscape of set-off can be divided into two sets of principles, those applying outside bankruptcy and those applying in bankruptcy. The chapter first considers set-off between solvent parties, focusing on set-off after a transfer of the principal claim, contractual arrangements, and set-off as security interests. It then examines set-off against insolvent parties, with emphasis on restrictions regarding the right of set-off in bankruptcy, recovery of set-off effected before bankruptcy, and close-out netting. It also analyses cross-border issues with respect to applicable law for set-off outside bankruptcy, applicable law for set-off in bankruptcy, and the conditions for cross-border set-off under Swedish law.
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Kirtley, Susan E., Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson, eds. With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826046.001.0001.
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This collection sets out the stakes, definitions, and exemplars of contemporary comics pedagogy. From K-12 contexts to higher ed instruction to ongoing communities of scholars working outside of the academy, comics pedagogy is at the heart of the work of today’s “aca-fans.” Building off of the interdisciplinary interests and approaches to teaching comics and teaching with comics, this volume brings together diverse voices to share key theories and scholarship on comics pedagogy. By bringing together scholars, creators, and educators across various fields and in K-12 as well as university settings, this volume significantly expands scholarship on comics pedagogy.
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Cheng, Christine. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199673346.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the concept of extralegal groups and a theoretical framework for analyzing them—how they emerge, develop, and become entrenched over time. It explores their dual nature as threats to the state and as local statebuilders. Formally, an extralegal group is defined as a set of individuals with a proven capacity for violence who work outside the law for profit and provide basic governance functions to sustain its business interests. This framing shows how political authority can develop as a by-product of the commercial environment, even where the state has little or no presence. In post-conflict societies, the predatory nature and historical abuses of citizens conducted in the name of the state means that government is not always more trusted or better able to look after the interests of local populations than an extralegal group. Ultimately, extralegal groups blur the lines between the formal and informal; the licit and illicit.
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Sweet, Bridget. Thinking Outside the Voice Box. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916374.001.0001.
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Thinking Outside the Voice Box: Adolescent Voice Change in Music Education is different from other books on voice change in that it encourages new and holistic ways of thinking about the female and male adolescent changing voice. It gives choral music educators (or anyone interested in the changing voice) the opportunity to step away from typical considerations of voice change and explore the experience within the bigger picture of adolescence. Female and male adolescent voice change are addressed at length, but special efforts have been made to bring new attention to female voice change to boost considerations of females in choral music education. Holistic considerations encompass the importance of understanding physical development during adolescence, including the body, brain, and auditory system; vocal anatomy and physiology in general, as well as during male and female voice change; the impact of hormones on the adolescent voice, especially for female singers; ideas of resolve and perseverance that are essential to adolescent navigation of voice change; and exploration of portrayals of voice change that have contributed to a situated reality not based in fact, but accepted in pop culture. Choral educators are also given a larger scope of voice classification systems and other foundational ideas in choral music education through examination of some of the most eminent works in the profession. Emerging considerations of adolescent voice change beyond classification systems provide new food for thought about working with the adolescent changing voice.
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Larson, Stephanie. Meddling with Myth in Thebes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744771.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses an Attic red-figure vase found on the Ismenion hill, in Thebes in Greece; the vase changes the iconography of the canonical Panhellenic grypomachy scene by substituting a sphinx, a symbol of local Theban significance. The chapter sets this vase into the context of sphinx imagery and adduces other vases from both within and outside Boeotia as evidence for a link between the image of the sphinx and the myth of Oedipus. It also suggests that this substitution on the vase could be seen as following a Theban trend in altering details of myth to fit local interests, as seen also in the earlier literary works of the Theban poet Pindar.
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Ritzinger, Justin R. Reawakening Maitreya. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491161.003.0007.
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The final chapter examines the legacy of the reformist cult of Maitreya in the contemporary period. In the People’s Republic of China, state interests and heavy regulation of religion has accelerated some developments and inhibited others. Xuedou shan has developed rapidly into a large and powerful institution, while a new wave of Maitreya Study Associations in China has faltered. In Taiwan, full liberalization has allowed new organizations to spring up, pursuing novel modes of propagation. These include Daci shan, the Taiwan Maitreya Study Association, and the Bade Maitreya Lodge. The chapter argues, however, that the greatest impact may actually be seen outside of Buddhism in Yiguan dao and its offshoot Maitreya Great Way.
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Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos, Esteban Pérez Caldentey, and Laura Valdez. Changing Challenges in the Modernization of Nacional Financiera. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827948.003.0005.
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NAFINSA was essential to Mexico’s development process. It served as the financial agent of the Federal Government and provided preferential access to long-term finance favouring selected business interests and groups. With the Washington Consensus, its tasks were reduced to correcting for market failures, becoming a complement to commercial banks, and focusing on attending the market segments falling outside the scope of commercial bank activity (notably SMEs). Although it appears as a successful story of institutional transformation, on closer inspection, NAFINSA has not been able to overcome key obstacles and its success in alleviating credit restrictions is very limited. NAFINSA must recover some of its functions, prerogatives, and responsibilities as a policy bank to become relevant in strengthening financial intermediation for capital formation.
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Cochrane, Alasdair. Sentientist Cosmopolitan Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789802.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 asks what the borders and powers of political communities ought to be within a global political order dedicated to the interests of all sentient creatures. It argues that taking the borders and powers of current political communities as they stand is problematic and leaves sentient individuals vulnerable to the policy decisions of those outside of their community. The chapter thus defends a ‘sentientist cosmopolitan democracy’ comprised of overlapping local, national, regional, and global communities. Crucially, the powers of each of these communities is determined by who is likely to be affected by policy-making in that area. This means that some existing powers of states should be devolved up to international communities, and some should be devolved down to more local ones.
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Debaise, Didier. Nature and Societies. Translated by Tomas Weber. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423045.003.0012.
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What is nature? So far, it has not been necessary to step outside of Process and Reality’s speculative project. Nature is fully deployed within the theory of existence and, in the theory of societies, it takes on the form of a singular type of empiricism. Doesn’t this new question of nature, of what composes it, of its relations to existences, require, for the first time, stepping outside of speculative philosophy? Doesn’t the question ‘what is nature?’ necessarily fall within a philosophy of nature of the kind that interests Whitehead in his earlier works and to which he returns in Modesof Thought? Several commentators on Process and Reality have embarked on this path by transporting, with differing degrees of obliqueness, the theory of actual entities on to a different plane from that of speculative philosophy. This approach, however, risks diminishing the final character of actual entities, reducing the importance and restricting the field of application of the ontological principle itself. Remember: there is nothing beyond actual entities; ‘the rest is silence’. Neither a superior form of existence nor a nature qua principle of movement, becoming or creation can ever explain actual entities. The terms usually employed to characterise nature, however, tend to presuppose an ontological precedence of nature over the existences that compose it.
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Godfrey, Donald G. Visionary Entrepreneur. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038280.003.0007.
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This chapter focuses on C. Francis Jenkins' inventions that he sold through several business startups. Until the late 1920s, Jenkins had no significant outside corporate sponsors. To support himself, he began selling his inventions that reflected his broad interests. This chapter first discusses the incorporation of the Jenkins Automobile Company under the laws of Delaware in 1900 and its production of several steam-propelled vehicles, including automobiles and trucks. It then considers Jenkins' patents in the field of aeronautics, such as those for an “aeroplane or flying machine,” camera adaptations that resulted in improved motion pictures, airplane catapult, and altimeter; patents for milk bottles and home improvement accessories; and novelty inventions ranging froma mathematical pocket calculator to a Christmas-tree holder and talking signs. It also recounts Jenkins' “Ocean to Ocean” automobile tour in 1911.
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Hörnle, Tatjana, Christoph Möllers, and Gerhard Wagner, eds. Gerichte und ihre Äquivalente. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845281582.
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This book addresses the forms and ramifications of conflict regulation, which has been the increasing focus of context-sensitive legal research. It paints a theoretically and empirically rich picture of the search for justice and the balancing of interests outside the formal legal system and on the basis of religious or cultural values that differ from those of a liberal ‘Western’ constitutional state. A focal point of the book is the role played by the European Union in strengthening such legal alternatives. It also presents selected lectures from the seminar ‘Recht im Kontext’, which was held at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and is aimed at both legal scholars and those in the social sciences who desire interdisciplinary debate. With contributions by Antoine Duval, Steffen Hintelang, Michael Stürner, Naoko Matsumoto, Sylvia Tellenbach, Alejandro Chhetman.
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Mark, Tushnet. Epilogue, Ch.56 The Indian Constitution Seen from Outside. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198704898.003.0056.
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This chapter considers some aspects of the Indian Constitution and its judicial interpretation, as seen from abroad. To this end, it discusses a number of topics that compare India’s constitutional experience with those of other countries, beginning with unconstitutional constitutional amendments and the ‘Basic Structure’ doctrine. It then explores public interest litigation, affirmative action and reservations, and finally the mechanisms by which judicial independence has been secured in India. It also comments on the contentious relationship between constitutional courts and political elites in other institutions. The chapter concludes by noting how constitutional developments, including the growth of constitutional doctrine, are intertwined with a nation’s overall political system, especially the party system in place.
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Reny, Marie-Eve. Explaining Authoritarian Containment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698089.003.0002.
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This chapter defines the concept of containment, explains how it translates in practice, and accounts for why state actors contain informal religious organizations. Containment is the conditional and bounded toleration of a religious organization outside the formal reach of the state. It is conditional insofar as actors must conform with a set of rules to be tolerated. It is bounded to the extent that religious actors conforming such bargain cannot ask the authorities for more than informal autonomy. State actors contain informal religious organizations because their interests are reconcilable with authoritarian regime resilience, and organizations are part of incohesive networks. Containment also sustains authoritarian rule in three ways: it depoliticizes religious leaders, creates divisions among compliant and dissident religious leaders, and generates information that local state actors use to make local governance less coercive and less co-optive.
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van Prooijen, Jan-Willem. Punishing Dangerous Outsiders. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190609979.003.0008.
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The second, between-group function of punishment asserts that people are motivated to protect their group from dangerous outsiders. Consistently, people assign severe punishment to offenders belonging to societal groups that are stereotypically associated with crime. Moreover, people are particularly punitive when an out-group offender harms an in-group victim. People are parochial altruists who sacrifice their self-interest to protect their own group, sometimes to the detriment of other groups. I then describe how parochial altruism evolved as a consequence of war and inter-group conflict, and that between-group punishment can function to deter out-groups from committing hostilities. These insights have implications for contemporary jihadi terrorism: suicide bombing essentially is an act of parochial altruism where a terrorist imposes collective punishment on an enemy out-group.
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Chhibber, Pradeep, and Harsh Shah. India Tomorrow. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.001.0001.
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The next generation of political leaders will determine India’s future. We know their names, but not what lies behind what we hear or see in the event/news-focussed coverage in newspapers and television channels. For instance, what moves them? Who inspires them? What are their passions and interests outside of politics? Where do they stand on some of India’s most contentious political issues? Do they have any regrets about their political careers? How do they explain some of the inconsistencies in their words and actions? Have their career choices come with significant personal costs? We set out to write a book that would give readers a snapshot of contemporary Indian politics, and its future, through the stories of 20 of the country’s most prominent next-generation politicians, each of whom we would interview in person. The goal was simple—to understand their personalities and ideologies, and offer readers unique insights. This book does not focus much on the quotidian aspects of politics but rather attempts to unravel the personalities, aspirations, ideologies, interests, passions, and motivations of the leaders featured. In doing so, it explores issues and tensions that lie at the heart of contemporary India’s politics, including but not limited to divisions of caste and religion, institutional decline, federalism, and centre–state relations, integration of Jammu & Kashmir, dynastic politics, and women empowerment.
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Chang, Michele. Brexit and the EU Economic & Monetary Union. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811763.003.0008.
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Although the UK enjoyed an opt-out from EMU, Chang explains that it was influential in its development. The UK successfully defended its interests in financial services despite EMU. Moreover, it often acted as a shield for non-Eurozone countries. Therefore, the withdrawal of the UK from the EU is likely to have an impact within the EMU, altering interstate alliances, changing the balance between euro-ins and euro-outs, and reducing the need to act outside the legal framework of the EU. In addition, the shortfall in the EU budget resulting from the end of the UK financial contributions may change the stakes in fiscal negotiations, creating room for the establishment of a Eurozone fiscal capacity. Finally, it is uncertain to what extent post-Brexit the EU may be able to push forward with the Capital Markets Union and whether the UK may stay connected to it.
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Afuah, Allan. Crowdsourcing: A Primer and Research Framework. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816225.003.0002.
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Managers are regularly confronted with unsolved problems. If a manager knows who can solve a problem, they can assign the problem to the correct person to have it solved under an ex ante contract or other form of agreement/commitment, inside or outside the organization. If they do not know who can solve it, they can crowdsource it, broadcasting the problem to an undefined set of people (the crowd) to self-select and solve it with no ex ante contract or other commitment. Although the practice of crowdsourcing goes back to at least the Longitude Prize of 1714, research on the phenomenon has only recently flourished, thanks, in part, to advances in information technology, globalization, and other macro-environmental factors. This chapter presents a crowdsourcing primer and framework with the goal of providing management scholars with some of the fundamentals needed to pursue their research interests in this compelling phenomenon.
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Chaisty, Paul, Nic Cheeseman, and Timothy J. Power. The Exchange of Favours and Coalition Management. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817208.003.0009.
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This chapter examines the role of informal tools in coalition management. Informal tools are understood as the ‘exchange of favours’: access to electoral resources, favourable state treatment of allies’ business interests, the conferral of lucrative or influential positions outside of the legislature and the cabinet, and, in some cases, illicit forms of exchange. It discusses the costs associated with these tools (financial, political, personal, public), and the factors that exacerbate or mitigate these costs: system-level factors (rule of law and personal-vote electoral systems), coalition-level factors (coalition size and congruence with the cabinet coalition), and conjunctural factors (proximity to the next election). The ways in which presidents deploy this tool are illustrated with detailed examples from Ecuador, Armenia, and Kenya. Finally, data from surveys of MPs are analysed to illustrate the relative costs of deploying the exchange of favours under different country conditions.
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Jonathan, Ross. 23 New Zealand. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808589.003.0023.
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This chapter provides an overview of the law of set-off in New Zealand, both outside and within the context of insolvency. There are numerous statutes in New Zealand that regulate set-off and are applicable in particular circumstances. Set-off may be divided into current account set-off, independent (or legal) set-off, transaction (or equitable) set-off, and contractual set-off. The chapter first considers these types of set-off between solvent parties, along with set-off in relation to competing security interests under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 (PPSA), before discussing set-off against insolvent parties. In particular, it explains insolvency set-off in liquidation, set-off in voluntary administration, netting insolvency set-off in liquidation and voluntary administration, and statutory management set-off. It also analyses issues arising from cross-border set-off, including the choice of law and cross-border application of PPSA.
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Lichtenstein, Nelson. Writing and Rewriting Labor’s Narrative. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037856.003.0002.
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This chapter presents the author'a account of how he reframed his understanding of the structures and social impulses that create the consciousness of the working-class as well its antagonists. At Berkeley in the early 1970s he was convinced that neither the law, religion, ethnicity, nor even race were as important as the work experience itself in shaping the consciousness of industrial unionists, whose sit-down strikes and wildcat strikes seemed to emerge directly out of a revolt against hierarchy and authority on the shop floor itself. However, he has come to the conclusion that the relationship of an individual to his or her work life is of less immediate importance than that person's capacity to identify with and then expound a set of ideas and aspirations that may or may not run parallel to what an outside observer might seem to think met the person's objective interests.
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Cynthia, Roberts, Leslie Armijo, and Saori Katada. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697518.003.0005.
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The chapter analyzes the prospects for continued BRICS collective financial statecraft. Contrary to initial expectations, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have hung together by identifying common aversions and pursuing common interests within the existing international order. Their future depends not only on their bargaining power, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to the sustainable economic growth that provides the basis for their international positions. To continue successfully with collective financial statecraft, the members must tackle the so-called middle-income trap, as well as their preferences for informal rules originating from their own institutional weaknesses or regime preferences. This study shows that, in the context of a global power shift, the BRICS club has operated to protect the member countries’ respective policy autonomy, while also advancing their joint voice in global governance. Recently, the BRICS have made concrete institutional gains, giving them expanded outside options to achieve specific objectives in global finance.
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Quave, Kylie. Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Cuzco Region. Edited by Sonia Alconini and Alan Covey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219352.013.41.
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This multiscalar view of royal estates and imperial centers in the Cuzco region looks to survey data, ethnohistory, and site-based archaeology to illuminate the growth of the Inca Empire from its heartland. Monumental centers in Cuzco are just a fraction of the settlements and resources that make up its estate systems and imperial facilities. By casting a wide net beyond the palace walls of sites such as Machu Picchu, the chapter models in new ways the role played by these centers that dominated the heartland landscape outside urban Cuzco. Recent results from the estate economic installation at Cheqoq (Maras), including retainer laborer households, a pottery workshop, and storage facilities, demonstrate (1) the impacts of Inca development on local communities, (2) how retainers contributed to factional interests and the greater imperial project, and (3) how retainers enjoyed an elevated status as a result of attachment to the nobles who developed royal estates.
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Eileen, Denza. Professional or Commercial Activity by Diplomat. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198703969.003.0049.
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This chapter examines Article 42 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which specifies the professional or commercial activity done by a diplomat. Article 42 states that a diplomatic agent shall not practise for personal profit any professional or commercial activity in the receiving State. The basis of the Article comes from the notion that it would give the sending State assurance that its diplomatic agents abroad would limit their activities to their official duties. It would assist the receiving State by eliminating difficult problems, and would enhance the dignity of the diplomatic corps accredited to its government. Lastly, it would serve to protect diplomatic agents from any suggestion that they might be using the prestige of their office to further their outside interests. In addition, the chapter also describes the relationship between Article 42 and Articles 31.1 (c) which deals with immunity and 34 (d) which tackles taxes on private income.
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Ruth I, Wahl. 7 Canada. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808589.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses the law of set-off in Canada both outside and within insolvency. The law relating to set-off is very similar throughout Canada's provinces except Quebec. Set-off is thus a matter of provincial law in general and determining whether a set-off claim is valid and enforceable will depend on the law of the province where such claim is being asserted. The chapter first provides an overview of set-off between solvent parties in Canada, focusing on legal set-off, equitable set-off, statutory set-off, contractual set-off, set-off in relation to subsidiaries, and the right of set-off with regard to security interests. It then considers set-off against insolvent parties, taking into account bankruptcy proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, receiverships, and reorganization proceedings under the Companies Creditors' Arrangement Act. It also examines issues that arise when the law of set-off is applied in a cross-border context.
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Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D. The Price of Independence. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039096.003.0003.
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This chapter introduces the American Polonia and its press, and situates Ameryka-Echo within its context, as Paryski struggles to defend his independence among various political and ideological interests and clashes with the Roman Catholic Church. It argues that the desire to keep his newspaper independent during the period of polarization and internal strife with American Polonia was never the sole reason for Paryski's anti-clerical stance. Paryski also rooted his independent belief in the Polish Positivist ideology, which remained close to his heart throughout his life, and manifested itself in his sympathy toward the populist ideology of the Polish National Catholic Church. Moreover, choices in his personal life permanently put him outside the Roman Catholic church, with no option for return. As a consequence, Ameryka-Echo became a beacon of anti-clericalism as well as religious tolerance, forming an open forum for a chorus of diverse voices from among American Polonia.
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Song, Sarah. Immigration and Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909222.001.0001.
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Immigration and Democracy develops an intermediate ethical position on immigration between closed borders and open borders. It argues that states have the right to control borders, but this right is qualified by an obligation to assist those outside their borders. In democratic societies, the right of immigration control must also be exercised in ways that are consistent with democratic values. Part I explores the normative grounds of the modern state’s power over immigration found in US immigration law and in political theory. It argues for a qualified, not absolute, right of states to control immigration based on a particular interpretation of the value of collective self-determination. Part II considers the case for open borders. One argument for open borders rests on the demands of global distributive justice; another argument emphasizes the value of freedom of movement as a fundamental human right. The book argues that both arguments fall short of justifying open borders. Part III turns to consider the substance of immigration policy for democratic societies. What kind of immigration policies should democratic societies adopt? What is required is not closed borders or open borders but controlled borders and open doors. Open to whom? The interests of prospective migrants must be weighed against the interests of the political community. Specific chapters are devoted to refugees and other necessitous migrants, family-based immigration, temporary worker programs, discretionary admissions, and what is owed to noncitizen residents, including unauthorized migrants living in the territory of democratic states.
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Bignami, Francesca, and Giorgio Resta. Human Rights Extraterritoriality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825210.003.0019.
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The chapter focuses on national security surveillance by spy agencies. The safeguards afforded for privacy under the law of national security surveillance in the U.S. and the EU appear to be motivated as much, if not more, by national self-interest as by a universal right to privacy. In the U.S., the law has traditionally protected the privacy rights of insiders far more assiduously than those of outsiders. In the EU, there is no power to act internally in the national security domain, but it has certain powers to regulate privacy externally, by setting the terms of intelligence-agency access to EU personal data. There are currently four such EU–U.S. agreements in place. Unsurprisingly, given the bilateral nature of these agreements, they reflect the traditional, self-interested logic of international law designed to further the interests of the parties to the agreement rather than the broader international community.
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Clark, David. Interest and disinterest in the mid-twentieth century. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199674282.003.0003.
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Offering free medical care to the entire population, the National Health Service (NHS) was a comprehensive system of universal entitlement based on collective provision of healthcare within a market economy. In its early years, it revealed that little attention was being paid to the needs of terminally ill and dying people. Nevertheless, some important information did begin to emerge on these matters, championed by charitable institutions outside the NHS. This chapter examines early reports on the plight of the terminally ill, the content of medical commentary on the subject, and the emerging flickers of research interest that became visible. It shows how over time, the discourse shifted from anecdote to a semblance of evidence—and created a bridgehead for future development in an emerging field of hospice and palliative care.
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Johnson-Hakim, Sharon, and Ashley Boal. Putting Your Training to Work. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190457938.003.0009.
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The search for a community practice-oriented job can be at once exciting and overwhelming, especially if it is your first job out of graduate school. Because the skill set and perspective of a community psychologist can be applied in a growing number of applied settings, the largest challenge is not in finding job opportunities outside of academia but rather in selling yourself in a non–community psychology world. Creativity and flexibility during the job search will prove to be valuable in identifying organizations and positions with roles that can be filled successfully by community psychologists. After identifying organizations and positions that align with your interests, it is vital to translate your competencies, experience, and values to match the job description and organization, and to demonstrate your ability to work with colleagues from different backgrounds. This chapter highlights aspects of the job search that are unique for practice (in contrast to academic) jobs, with the goal of serving as a resource for individuals as they begin to think about potential careers in community psychology practice.
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Nierling, Linda, and Helge Torgersen, eds. Die neutrale Normativität der Technikfolgenabschätzung. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748907275.
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Technology assessment (TA) is committed to impartial expertise as well as basic democratic values. And beyond that? What is the normative framework within which TA operates? Is it always the same or does it differ depending on the topic, societal task or country and political culture? How should TA deal with both normative claims from outside and those that originate from within TA itself? In what ways can it identify and process normative claims, and how can and should TA position itself among conflicting political interests and divergent world views? Is ‘neutral’ expertise a help or a hindrance here, and can there (still) be such a thing at all? The authors of this volume attempt to answer such questions or at least to disentangle the problems that TA, with its evergrowing diversity of approaches, faces in times of increasing political and economic antagonism and accelerated technological development. With contributions by Armin Grunwald, Niklas Gudowsky-Blatakes | Christoph Kehl | Helge Torgersen, Julia Hahn, Jan-Hendrik Kamlage | Julia Reinermann, Marcel Krüger | Philipp Frey, Linda Nierling | Maria Udén, Poonam Pandey | Aviram Sharma, Diana Schneider, Stefan Strauß
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Graves-Brown, Paul, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602001.001.0001.
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This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which authors from within and outside of archaeology reflect on cross-disciplinary concerns. Contributors discuss topics ranging from scale and time to ruins, memory, authenticity, sectarianism, heritage, modernism, and disaster. To extend and complicate the interdisciplinary overviews and archaeological thematics, the book presents in-depth case studies on mobilities, space and place; media and mutabilities; and things and connectivities. Three contributors?representing disciplinary interests in archaeology, geography and photography?produce photo essays in which they reflect on some of the central themes in an archaeology of the contemporary world. The book pursues questions of materiality that appear to owe much to Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project (2002), a distinctively spatial exploration of the ruins and debris of the arcades of Paris. It also looks at spectacular events as sites of material intensity, including protests and riots, sporting mega-events, and festivals.