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La Représentation Du Politique Dans La Littérature Gabonaise, Jean René Ovono Mendame

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

From which viewpoint do Gabonese writers relate to the realities of the political and social policies of their country and what place do political players occupy in their works? Why do they hesitate so much to denounce the problems of their society? Why is there such a pronounced silence within their literary works? This article raises these delicate and complex questions. The report produced on the evolution of Gabonese writing affirms that writers’ silence is the product of self-censorship. They are condemned to fear saying anything, not only because of potential reprisals, but because they are, for the majority, political …

Junius And Joseph: Presidential Politics And The Assassination Of The First Mormon Prophet. By Robert S. Wicks And Fred R. Foister, Susan Sessions Rugh

BYU Studies Quarterly

Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister. Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2005.

Sarah Bania-Dobyns On New Terror, New Wars By Paul Gilbert. Washington, Dc: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 176pp., Sarah Bania-Dobyns

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

New Terror, New Wars by Paul Gilbert. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 176pp.

Constitutional Crisis In The Commonwealth: Resolving The Conflict Between Governors And Attorneys General, Michael Signer

University of Richmond Law Review

In this article, I argue the solution to agency conflict and the broader problem of establishing the proper scope of executive authority lies in establishing that Virginia has a "statutory" rather than a "common-law" model of the Attorney General's powers, and that the Office of the Attorney General is therefore circumscribed by statute. Contrary to popular understanding, I will argue that Wilder v. Attorney General of Virginia effectively establishes Virginia as a statutory state and resolves the conflict in favor of the Governor. Because the Supreme Court of Virginia is unlikely to act more strongly in favor of the statutory …

Economic Complementarity And Political Solidarity: Concerning The Sources Of The First Treaty Of 1850 Between Switzerland And The United States, Cédric Humair

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Civil War known as the Sonderbund and the institutionalization of the Federal State, in 1848, do not solely constitute important historical milestones in Swiss domestic politics. These events, which mark the advent of a modern Switzerland, also had repercussions upon Swiss international politics and diplomacy and, in particular, upon relations with the United States of America. Beginning in 1850, the new liberal-radical authorities concluded a General Convention of Friendship, Reciprocal Establishments, Commerce, and for the Surrender of fugitive Criminals with the "sister Republic."' For the first time in their histories, the two countries regulated several spheres of their relations …

The Political Economy Of Unfairness In U.S. Health Policy, Jonathan Oberlander

Law and Contemporary Problems

Oberlander discusses the political economy of unfairness in US health policy by first highlighting the moral issues raised by the US's system of financing medical care and then by analyzing the political dynamics that sustain that system.

Democracy Means That The People Make The Law, Gerald Torres

New England Journal of Public Policy

Gerald Torres delivered the Robert C. Wood lecture at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston in 2006. This is his talk.

Separation Of Powers And The Governor's Office In West Virginia: Advocating A More Deferential Approach To The Chief Executive From The Judiciary, Jason C. Pizatella

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Democracy At Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation And What We Can Do About It (Book Review), Jack Van Der Slik

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Democracy at Risk: how political choices undermine citizen participation and what we can do about it, by Stephen Macedo, et al, Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. 228pp.

God And Country: Politics In Utah. By Jeffrey E. Sells, Ed, Jacob W. Olmstead

BYU Studies Quarterly

Jeffery E. Sells, ed. God and Country: Politics in Utah. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005.

Why Religion In Politics Does Not Violate La Conception Américaine De La Laïcité, Michael J. Perry

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

La conception Am6ricaine de la Laĭcité consists principally of a constitutional norm-the nonestablishment norm-and of the laW that the U.S. Supreme Court has developed in the course of enforcing the norm. The nonestablishment norm forbids government-both the national government and state government-to "establish" religion. American laYcit6 also consists of what we may call "the morality of liberal democracy. " My aim in this essay is to explain why religion in politics does not violate American laYcit6; more specifically, my aim is to explain why political reliance on religiously grounded morality violates neither the nonestablishment norm nor the morality of liberal …

How The Voting Rights Act Works: Implementation Of A Civil Rights Policy, 1965-2005, Peyton Mccrary

South Carolina Law Review

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White Dollars, Black Candidates: Inequality And Agency In Campaign Finance Law, Terry Smith

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prelude To The Voting Rights Act: The Suffrage Crusade, 1962-1965, Steven F. Lawson

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

No Exit - The Roberts Court And The Future Of Election Law, Richard L. Hasen

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Racial Fairness And Traditional Districting Standards: Observations On The Impact Of The Voting Rights Act On Geographic Representation, Katharine Inglis Butler

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Elections, Violence And Democracy In Iraq, Shaheen Mozaffar

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Politics And Telecommunications, Larry Pressler

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Expressionism, Futurism, And The Dream Of Mass Democracy, Douglas Brent Mcbride

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay throws new light on a radical tendency in cultural modernism by analyzing the role of a single metaphor—the figure of politics as a stage—in political debates among German Expressionists and Italian Futurists before World War I. As the essay argues, this trope was used to critique liberalism's limited notion of popular rule and envision how disenfranchised masses might develop the political subjectivity needed to create a truly mass democracy. While the essay demonstrates that Futurists and Expressionists failed to develop a clear vision of what form mass democracy might take, it concludes that they agreed on one point. …

A Metaphor For Global War, R. Ryan Brandys

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

On Letters Of Reference As Frames Of Reference, Roderick A. Macdonald, Alexandra Law

Dalhousie Law Journal

Requesting, writing and reading letters of reference are everyday features of academic life. Yet they are neglected as a matter of professorial training and their pedagogical importance is rarely acknowledged. This paper reviews various practical aspects of the reference process, with emphasis on its politics and ethics. It argues that letters of reference frame the lived experience of candidate, writer, reader and community-both for the present and the future.

Abraham Kuyper In The White House? Why Dordt Isn't So Far From Washington, Dc, Stanley Carlson-Thies

Pro Rege

This paper was originally an address, delivered by Dr. Stanley Carlson–Thies at the Dordt College Spring Convocation, January 12, 2006.

Diminishing Borders In Trade And Terrorism: An Examination Of Regional Apllicability Of Gatt Article Xxi National Security Trade Sanctions, Eric J. Lobsinger

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The concept of "war" has undergone extensive usage in U.S. foreign policy since the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001.

The Continuing Role Of State Policy, Jeffrey A. Hart

Federal Communications Law Journal

A review of Hernan Galperin's New Television, Old Politics: The Transition to Digital TV in the United States and Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Based on comparative case studies in Britain and the United States, this book analyzes the transition to digital television in both countries, considers governmental regulatory strategies, and focuses on the impact of various factors, including political influence and market and technological changes.

Rights-Based Approaches To Development: Introduction, Sarah Hamilton

Human Rights & Human Welfare

This digest offers a multidimensional, well-chosen, and timely compilation of resources analyzing the myriad relationships between fields devoted to the realization of human rights and human development. I appreciate having the opportunity to introduce the issue for two reasons. First, the contributors perform a tremendous service to both fields. They have created an accessible pathway to works that engage: the normative, substantive, and empirical dimensions of the human rights/development nexus; key debates among theoreticians, policy-makers, and practitioners concerning this nexus; inclusive analysis of institutional frameworks and actors; and attention to both opportunities for, and challenges to, the realization of increasingly …

Liability And Compensation For Harm Caused By Nuclear Activities, Jon M. Van Dyke

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

The Processes Of Constitutional Change: From Partisan Entrenchment To The National Surveillance State, Jack M. Balkin, Sanford Levinson

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Chicken Soup, Tracy E. Higgins

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Of Two Women In Scandinavian-American Immigrant Literature, Mikael Engelstoft Hansen

The Bridge

Neither politics nor traditional history has ever spelled much interest to me. But then I read in Hilde Petra Brungot's dissertation1 on Dorthea Dahl (1881-1958)2 of this Lutheran Norwegian-American immigrant writer being an outspoken Republican.

From Aesthetics To Politics: Rancière, Kant And Deleuze, Katharine Wolfe

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

What does politics have to do with aesthetics? Surely, both politics and aesthetics are concerned with imagining, envisioning, and even creating, yet aren't the kinds of things these fields of inquiry imagine, envision and create greatly disparate? Jacques Rancière argues that what is at stake in politics, just as it is in aesthetics, is the distribution of the sensible, and that politics happens not only through the disruption of a certain aesthetic organization of sense experience but through the eruption of a distinct aesthetics. Here I elaborate the Kantian foundation for Rancière's conception of the kind of aesthetics that politics …