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The Politics Of Fiscal Austerity: Democracies And Foresight, Paul L. Posner
The Politics Of Fiscal Austerity: Democracies And Foresight, Paul L. Posner
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Daunting fiscal policy challenges face democratic systems throughout the world. Fiscal austerity in the wake of the Great Recession prompted nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to institute major spending cuts and tax increases, increases that caused political and social fallout for years to come. While economies and budgets have improved in the past several years, significant fiscal adjustments lie ahead due to aging populations and the seemingly inexorable growth of health care costs. Faced with larger cohorts of retirees and fewer workers, nations will have to come to grips with a fiscal reality of higher …
On The Politics Of Societal Constitutionalism, Emilios Christodoulidis
On The Politics Of Societal Constitutionalism, Emilios Christodoulidis
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper is an internal critique of the theory of societal constitutionalism as developed by Gunther Teubner, with a specific emphasis on the constitutional and the political dimensions of the theory. As critique it focuses on the arguably unacknowledged dangers of co-option: the danger that constitutionalization, as an ongoing process, undercuts what we typically associate with the constitutional, which is its framing function; that this problem is accentuated when it comes to the transnational; and that its reflexivity runs the danger of market capture, in which case it remains only nominally political. The danger of market capture for societal constitutionalism …
Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the role of transnational adoption in the production of a multicultural but Swedish national body during the second half of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first century, when Sweden became a multiethnic, multicultural, and racially divided country. I examine the development of international adoption policies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, emphasizing the erasure of the child's connection to a preadoptive past, even as the child's cultural difference was celebrated in adopting nations. In Sweden, which in the late 1970s and early 1980s had the world's highest adoption ratio (number of transnational adoptions per …
A Critical Methodology Of Globalization: Politics Of The 21st Century?, Vidya S. A. Kumar
A Critical Methodology Of Globalization: Politics Of The 21st Century?, Vidya S. A. Kumar
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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An Identity Crisis: Regime Legitimacy And The Politics Of Intellectual Property Rights In China, Scott J. Palmer
An Identity Crisis: Regime Legitimacy And The Politics Of Intellectual Property Rights In China, Scott J. Palmer
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Western Immigration, Stephen E. Scheele
The Politics Of Western Immigration, Stephen E. Scheele
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.