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Evolution, Politics And Law, Bailey Kuklin
When Does Government Limit The Impact Of Voter Initiatives?, Elisabeth R. Gerber
When Does Government Limit The Impact Of Voter Initiatives?, Elisabeth R. Gerber
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Citizens use the initiative process to make new laws. Many winning initiatives, however, are altered or ignored after Election Day. We examine why this is, paying particular attention to several widely-ignored properties of the post-election phase of the initiative process. One such property is the fact that initiative implementation can require numerous governmental actors to comply with an initiative’s policy instructions. Knowing such properties, the question then becomes: When do governmental actors comply with winning initiatives? We clarify when compliance is full, partial, or not at all. Our findings provide a template for scholars and observers to better distinguish cases …
Law, Politics, And Judicial Review: A Comment On Hasen, Guy-Uriel Charles
Law, Politics, And Judicial Review: A Comment On Hasen, Guy-Uriel Charles
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The Timing, Intensity, And Composition Of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis Of Structural Policy Windows In The States, John M. De Figueiredo
The Timing, Intensity, And Composition Of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis Of Structural Policy Windows In The States, John M. De Figueiredo
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This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical framework based on recurring “structural policy windows” and argues that these types of windows should have a large effect on the intensity and timing of interest group activity. Using a new database of all lobbying expenditures in the U.S. states ranging up to 25 years, the paper shows interest group lobbying increases substantially during one of these structural windows in particular--the budgeting process. Spikes in lobbying during budgeting are driven primarily by business groups. Moreover, even groups relatively unaffected by budgets lobby …
Welcome To The Dark Side: Liberals Rediscover Federalism In The Wake Of The War On Terror, Ernest A. Young
Welcome To The Dark Side: Liberals Rediscover Federalism In The Wake Of The War On Terror, Ernest A. Young
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Managing A Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization In The United States And The United Kingdom, David Pozen
Managing A Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization In The United States And The United Kingdom, David Pozen
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This paper traces the recent history and development of privately operated prisons in the United States and the United Kingdom, and it compares their current role in the countries' correctional systems. The privatization movements of the U.S. and the U.K. were driven by similar factors, but the relative weight of these factors varied between the two. In the U.S., legal pressures to alleviate prison overcrowding and fiscal incentives to contract out prison construction were stronger, while in the U.K. the ideological and political aims of the governing party exerted more influence in stimulating privatization. America's experience with private prisons in …
Regulating Teenage Abortion In The United States: Politics And Policy, Carol Sanger
Regulating Teenage Abortion In The United States: Politics And Policy, Carol Sanger
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Thirty-four US states currently require pregnant minors either to notify their parents or get their consent before having a legal abortion. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of theses statutes provided that minors are also given an alternative mechanism for abortion approval that does not involve parents. The mechanism used is the 'judicial bypass hearing' at which minors persuade judges that they are mature and informed enough to make the abortion decision themselves. While most minors receive judicial approval, the hearings intrude into the most personal aspects of a young woman's life. The hearings, while formally civil in nature, …
Sexual Tensions Of Post-Empire, Katherine M. Franke
Sexual Tensions Of Post-Empire, Katherine M. Franke
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In this essay Katherine Franke examines two contemporary cites in which state efforts to eradicate the traces of empire and to resurrect an authentic post-colonial nation have produced sexual subjects that serve as a kind of existential residue and reminder of a demonized colonial past and absence. Looking first at post-colonial Zimbabwe, Franke argues that President Mugabe's aggressively homophobic policies have played a key role in fortifying his leadership as authentically African and post-colonial.
Franke then turns to current efforts by the Mubarak government in Egypt to publically prosecute men for having sex with men. The Mubarak government has used …
On Gun Registration, The Nra, Adolf Hitler, And Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding The Gun Culture Wars (A Call To Historians), Bernard Harcourt
On Gun Registration, The Nra, Adolf Hitler, And Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding The Gun Culture Wars (A Call To Historians), Bernard Harcourt
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Say the words "gun registration" to many Americans – especially pro-gun Americans, including the 3.5 million-plus members of the National Rifle Association ("NRA") – and you are likely to hear about Adolf Hitler, Nazi gun laws, gun confiscation, and the Holocaust. More specifically, you are likely to hear that one of the first things that Hitler did when he seized power was to impose strict gun registration requirements that enabled him to identify gun owners and then to confiscate all guns, effectively disarming his opponents and paving the way for the genocide of the Jewish population. "German firearm laws and …