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Liberty Versus Security Under Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Legality of Criminalising Humanitarian Assistance in Hungary and Greece
Full text linkWith the end of the Cold War and the apparent triumph of the liberal democratic order, the “end of history” had been famously proclaimed. Notwithstanding this definitive prognosis, the past fifteen years have shown a marked regression in the quality of democracy, specifically its feature of liberal constitutionalism and associated checks and balances on executive power. This trend is especially worrying, given its occurrence within the normative context of the European Union (EU), which has built its brand on an adherence to liberal democracy and the respect for human rights. Accordingly, substantive liberal democratic features have been diluted to a significant extent under the guise of constitutional form – a phenomenon dubbed illiberal constitutionalism – while the EU has not been able to enforce norm compliance. In this context, constitutional guarantees to safeguard civil society’s operational space have been commonly infringed upon, resulting in the increased interference of the state by means of imposing administrative difficulties, limiting access to resources, and, in a most recent trend, criminalising certain civil society activities.
The criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, which is one of the gravest restrictions of civic space by means of the criminal law, has notably occurred in the context of the securitisation of immigration acting as a response to the 2015 migration crisis. As a result, the balance between security and liberty has been markedly skewed in favour of the former. As previous studies of illiberal constitutionalism have pointed out the tools used by illiberal governments to restrict liberal guarantees of fundamental rights, the present dissertation aims to add to this field by assessing the legal limits of this phenomenon. Through the lens of Human Rights Law as a measure of permissible practices, the following dissertation thus aims to investigate to what extent does the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance legally restrict constitutional guarantees of fundamental rights
Intersubjective meaning and collective action in'fragile'societies : theory, evidence and policy implications
Full text linkThe capacity to act collectively is not just a matter of groups sharing interests, incentives and values (or being sufficiently small), as standard economic theory predicts, but a prior and shared understanding of the constituent elements of problem(s) and possible solutions. From this standpoint, the failure to act collectively can stem at least in part from relevant groups failing to ascribe a common intersubjective meaning to situations, processes and events. Though this is a general phenomenon, it is particularly salient in countries characterized by societal fragility and endemic conflict. We develop a conceptual account of intersubjective meanings, explain its relevance to development practice and research, and examine its implications for development work related to building the rule of law and managing common pool resources.Corporate Law,Public Sector Corruption&Anticorruption Measures,Cultural Policy,Labor Policies,Population Policies
Expert Ignorance:The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform
Full text linkToday, a transnational constellation of 'rule of law' experts advise on 'good' legal systems to countries in the Global South. Yet these experts often claim that the 'rule of law' is nearly impossible to define, and they frequently point to the limits of their own expertise. In this innovative book, Deval Desai identifies this form of expertise as 'expert ignorance'. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Desai draws on insights from legal theory, sociology, development studies, and performance studies to explore how this paradoxical form of expertise works in practice. With a range of illustrative cases that span both global and local perspectives, this book considers the impact of expert ignorance on the rule of law and on expert governance more broadly. Contributing to the study of transnational law, governance, and expertise, Desai demonstrates the enduring power of proclaiming what one does not know
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Governmental, journalistic and other material relevant to the study of the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) (2015-2022)
No full textThis database is composed of qualitative information relating to the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Funds between 2015 and 2022. It has important governmental, journalistic and other material relevant to the study of the DMF in India:
1. Newspaper clippings of information related to the DMF Fund in Odisha (2015 and 2016)
Description of the data: This database presents the metadata of newspaper clippings related to the DMF Fund collection, spending, or mismanagement in local/regional newspapers in the state of Odisha in 2015. The metadata is in pictorial form and is in Odia language.
2. Performance Audit files published by Governmental organizations of India
Description of the data:
- Bihar: Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Systems and Controls in assessment and collection of mineral receipts for the year ended 31 March 2021
- Chattisgarh: Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit of Mining of minor minerals with emphasis on illegal mining operations
- Jharkhand: Audit on working of District Mineral Foundation Trust in Jharkhand
- Rajasthan: Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Performance Audit on Illegal Mining in Rajasthan
- A Guideline published by Governmental organizations in India (https://mines.gov.in/admin/storage/app/uploads/644673cc06acf1682338764.pdf)
Description of the data: Government of India/Bharat Sarkar, Ministry of Mines/Khan Mantaralaya; for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Khanij KshetraKalyanYojana (PMKKKY)
- Suggestions from groups of activists in which members of the researcher team were part of. The suggestions were presented to the government.
(District Mineral Foundation Trust Ramgarh and Gujarat)
This project has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SSH project and is related to the project:
Coastal sand mining of heavy mineral sands: Contestations, resistance, and ecological distribution conflicts at HMS extraction frontiers across the world. Grant Number: 10001A_185148 (SWISSUbase study 20540)
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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