354 research outputs found
Homophobic violence in London: challenging assumptions about strangers, dangers and safety in the city
No full textBook synopsis: Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective.\ud
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An invaluable 'guide' to adopting a different approach to the city and its history, culture and everyday experience, Law and the City is not simply an exploration of the relationship between these two spheres.\ud
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a flourishing of law’s spatiality and urban legal locality\ud
an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the city’s legal dreams, of both the ‘urban law’ and the ‘juridical polis’.\ud
Enlightening and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers
Comment: The Instagram Lawscape
No full textAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos has recently published a collection of what he calls “picpoems”, which were poems inspired by pictures that he took using an iPhone. The pictures were taken and subsequently listened to through a posthuman methodology, which resulted in his composition of the poems. This comment comprises a conversation between Pravin Jeyaraj and Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, in which Jeyaraj explores how the picpoems offer a visualisation of being inside the lawscape, which is an environment created by an invisible law. He argues that the role of law is to highlight the lack of control we have over our bodies and how suicide is the only way we can have any form of control over our escape
Moscow: third Rome, model communist city, Eurasian antagonist - and power as no-power?
No full textBook synopsis: Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective.\ud
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An invaluable 'guide' to adopting a different approach to the city and its history, culture and everyday experience, Law and the City is not simply an exploration of the relationship between these two spheres.\ud
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It details: a flourishing of law’s spatiality and urban legal locality\ud
an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the city’s legal dreams, of both the ‘urban law’ and the ‘juridical polis’.\ud
Enlightening and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers
Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or How Matter Becomes Material
No full textThe chapter discusses the current legal scholarship which takes ‘legal materials’ as its objects of analyses. Arguing against an unmediated understanding of matters and materials, it thinks through what are specifically law’s matters in relation to the meaning of legal materiality and differentiates between matter and materiality. The chapter posits a mediated understanding of legal materiality as law’s articulation of its meaning by selectively engaging with concrete matters. Law’s materiality is unruly and unstable because it is continuously realised through interpretive and representational practices, such as texts, spatial orderings and ritualised performances. Law proves to be a recalcitrant and surprising matter which escapes full control
Incentives to Work and Performance in the Public Sector
No full textThis paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for policy reforms that can improve work incentives, and hence enhance productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public and the private sector
(I)materialidade, poder constituinte e constituição : reflexões a partir da obra de Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
No full textOrientadora : Profª Drª Vera Karam de ChueiriCoorientadora: Profª Drª Angela Couto Machado FonsecaMonografia (graduação) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Jurídicas, Curso de Graduação em DireitoInclui referências: p. 85-90Resumo: Esse trabalho almejou explorar uma possibilidade de reposicionamento da (i)materialidade e dos corpos dentro do pensamento Constitucional, a partir da ontologia jurídico-espacial materialista proposta por Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos com seus três conceitos chave: lawscape, atmosfera e justiça espacial. Assim, a partir do pressuposto de que o Direito e a Constituição se dissimulam enquanto imateriais, buscou-se responder à questão: qual é a (i)materialidade da Constituição? Dessa maneira, foi realizado um diálogo da teoria de Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos com a teoria constitucional de Niklas Luhmann, Antonio Negri e em especial, seguindo os passos dados com a proposição de uma constituição (in)corporada trazida por Angela Fonseca, Thiago Hoshino e Vera Karam de Chueiri. Essa análise se pautou na exploração da teoria dos afetos, das releituras feministas de Espinosa, dos novos materialismos, pós-humanismo e de algumas teses da Ontologia Orientada ao Objeto (OOO), amplo leque de referências que pode ser lido através da teoria de Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. Também foram trazidas à tona reflexões a partir de momentos constituintes, como a Revolução Haitiana (1791-1804) e as constituintes brasileiras de 1823 e de 1987-1988. Foi concluído que vantagem de tal leitura foi permitir uma teorização pós-representacionista da constituição enquanto operadora jurídico-política e espacial da materialidade, compreendendo a Constituição em um sentido profundamente material, atuando sobre um plano inclinado de corpos humanos e não-humanos em movimento. O poder constituinte foi tido enquanto imanente à Constituição, que tem um papel jurídico-político de ao mesmo tempo potencializar e agitar as agências constituintes e paradoxalmente as inserirem em um contínuo de materialidade constitucional. Finalizou-se a discussão com a ética proposta por Doreen Massey, Genevieve Lloyd e Moira Gatens, lida em conjunto com o conceito de Justiça Espacial, o que permitiu uma discussão constitucional da responsabilidade e dos direitos a partir de uma ecologia aberta, dos agenciamentos e do recuo.Abstract: The present undergraduate thesis sought to experiment possibilities of repositioning bodies and (im)materiality within Constitutional Theory. This was done through Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s proposal for a spatial-juridical materialist ontology, which has lawscape, atmosphere, and spatial justice as its key concepts. The analysis departed from Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos‘s claim that Law and, we add, the Constitution, dissimulates themselves as immaterial and it called for answering the question: what is Constitution’s materiality? For doing so, it was established a dialogue between Andreas-Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s theories and constitutional theory authors such as Niklas Luhmann, Antonio Negri, and, specially, it was nurtured an interchange with Angela Fonseca’s, Thiago Hoshino’s, and Vera Karam de Chueiri’s theory of an (in)corporated constitution. The analysis integrated many of Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s theoretical frameworks, such as affect theory, feminist re-readings of Spinoza, new materialisms, posthumanist theory, and Object Oriented Ontology (OOO). The assessment also included several experimental reflections regarding some constituent moments such as the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the brazilian constituent assemblies of 1823 and 1987-1988. Such investigation concluded that this post-representationalist reading of the Constitution allowed for the proposal of a concept of Constitution that is material through and through, operating spatially and immanently over a tilted continuum consisting of moving human and non-human bodies. Constituent power was conceptualized as being immanent to the Constitution, that acts in a juridical-political manner, concurrently empowering and stirring up constituent agency and, paradoxically, inserting them in a material-constitutional continuum. Lastly, the ethics of authors such as Doreen Massey, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens as read through the concept of spatial justice, made way for a discussion of constitutional responsibility, Law and rights, and which casts a open ecology, attention to assemblages and the importance of withdrawa
Should Green Governments Give Priority to Environmental Policies over Growth-Enhancing Policies?
No full textThis paper studies the properties of second-best optimal policy in a standard general equilibrium model of growth augmented with renewable natural resources. The government chooses its policy instruments (the income tax rate and the allocation of collected tax revenues between public investment and environmental policy) to solve a Ramsey-type policy problem. The main result is that, the more the citizens care about the environment, the more growth-enhancing policies the government finds it optimal to choose in the long run. This is because when citizens care about the environment, this requires tax revenues for environmental policy and can be only achieved by large tax bases and high growth. Thus, only growing economies can afford to care about the environment. This is the case even if pollution occurs as a by-product of output produced.second-best policy, natural resources, economic growth
Rent-Seeking Competition from State Coffers: A Calibrated DSGE Model of the Euro Area
No full textThis paper incorporates an uncoordinated struggle for extra fiscal favors into an otherwise standard Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. This reflects the popular belief that interest groups compete for privileged transfers and tax treatment at the expense of the general public interest, and so the aggregate economy stagnates. The model is calibrated to the euro area over the period 1980-2003. Our results show that rent-seeking competition can contribute to explaining the European macroeconomic experience. We also get quantitative evidence of the fraction of collected tax revenues grabbed by rent seekers.rent seeking, fiscal policy, real business cycles
The Role of Government in Anti-Social Redistributive Activities
No full textIt is known that anti-social redistributive activities (rent seeking, tax evasion, corruption, violation of property rights, delay of socially beneficial reforms, etc) hurt the macroeconomy. But it is less known what is the role of government size as a determinant of such activities. We use data from 64 counties (both developed and developing) in 5-year periods over 1980-2000. As a measure of anti-social activities, we use the ICRG index; as a measure of government size, we use the government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso, Schuknecht and Tanzi (2003). Our regressions show that what really matters to social incentives is the relation between size and efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency, larger public sectors are bad for incentives. By contrast, when efficiency exceeds size, larger public sectors are not bad; actually, in the case where efficiency is measured by government performance in the policy areas of administration, stabilization and infrastructure, larger public sectors significantly improve incentives.government and behaviour of agents, collective decision-making
A note on testing for tax-smoothing in general equilibrium
No full textBarro’s original partial equilibrium tax-smoothing model has generated a tremendous amount of empirical interest over the last several decades. However, to date, there has been no formal empirical testing of the more recent general equilibrium renditions of this model. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to construct, and directly test, a general equilibrium model of optimal growth and endogenous fiscal policy in which policymakers find it optimal to keep the tax rate constant over time. In contrast to most of the evidence from partial equilibrium models, we find that data from 26 OECD economies uniformly reject the taxsmoothing hypothesis over the period 1960-1996.
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