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2003

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Amofoi: Fighting Caste And Religious Bigotry In India, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Feb 2003

Amofoi: Fighting Caste And Religious Bigotry In India, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

Article published in International Humanist News (IHN), published by International Humanist Ethical Union (IHEU), February 2003, p-15.

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Scottish Devolution: Identity And Impact And The Case Of Community Care For The Elderly, Gordon Marnoch Jan 2003

Scottish Devolution: Identity And Impact And The Case Of Community Care For The Elderly, Gordon Marnoch

Gordon Marnoch

This article examines the emergent identity and impact of devolution in Scotland. Using the case of community care for the elderly, a model is set out for capturing the different interpretive perspectives evident in relation to a particular policy area in 1999–2001. The political story of the ‘free personal care’ issue, in which the Scottish Executive were unexpectedly forced into adopting a markedly different policy from the rest of the UK, is examined in some detail. Setting the episode in a broader context, four discursive thematics are identified in relation to the policy case. A model is demonstrated for examining …

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Policy Counts: Improving The Readiness Of Children For School, Recommendations For State Policy, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Elizabeth Rigby Dec 2002

Policy Counts: Improving The Readiness Of Children For School, Recommendations For State Policy, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Elizabeth Rigby

Elizabeth Rigby

No abstract provided.

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Conditional Income Support Programs: The Case Of Mexico’S Oportunidades, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu Dec 2002

Conditional Income Support Programs: The Case Of Mexico’S Oportunidades, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

This paper describes the main features of Oportunidades, an innovative poverty alleviation program recently implemented in Mexico and targeted to households living in extreme poverty. It also surveys the main evaluations of Oportunidades, which have benefited from the fact that the program constitutes one of the largest randomized social experiments of its kind.

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State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2002

State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

In recent years, the Seventeenth Amendment has been the subject of legal scholarship, congressional hearings and debate, Supreme Court opinions, popular press articles and commentary, state legislative efforts aimed at repeal, and activist repeal movements. To date, the literature on the effects of the Seventeenth Amendment has focused almost exclusively on the effects on the political production of legislation and competition between legislative bodies. Very little attention has been given to the potential adverse effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the relationship between state legislatures and the federal courts. This Article seeks to fill part of that literature gap, applying …

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