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Taking Rights Seriously
Alan R. White,Ronald Dworkin +1 more
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In this paper, a judge in some representative American jurisdiction is assumed to accept the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction and to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as lAbstract:
1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as lread more
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Quality of Government
Jan Teorell,Bo Rothstein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the concept of quality of government should be best understood as that of having impartial government institutions, which avoids functionalism and ignores the contents of specific policies in favor of the procedures for how they are implemented.
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Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory: Specifying the Types of Strain Most Likely to Lead to Crime and Delinquency:
TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of strainful events and conditions that influence their relationship to crime are described, and it is predicted that some types of strain will not be related to crime, including types that have dominated the research on strain theory.
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Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems
TL;DR: Value sensitive design as discussed by the authors is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process, which employs an integrative and iterative tripartite methodology, consisting of conceptual, empirical, and technical investigations.
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What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions
Bo Rothstein,Jan Teorell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a more coherent and specific definition of QoG: the impartiality of institutions that exercise government authority, which they relate to a series of criticisms stemming from the fields of public administration, public choice, multiculturalism, and feminism.
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Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare-State Institutions
Staffan Kumlin,Bo Rothstein +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the causal mechanism between variation in the design of welfare-state institutions and social capital is investigated, based on Swedish survey data, and it is shown that the specific design of WSP policies matters for the production of social capital, whereas experiences with needs-testing social programs undermine it.
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The Nature of Citizenship in the United States and Great Britain: Empirical Comments on Theoretical Themes
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Disability in a Human Rights Context
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Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty
TL;DR: The status of international law and transnational legal agreements with respect to the sovereignty claims of liberal democracies has become a highly contentious theoretical and political issue as discussed by the authors, and there is increasing reticence on the part of many that prospects of a world constitution are neither desirable nor salutary.