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About: Gun control is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1211 publications have been published within this topic receiving 16516 citations. The topic is also known as: firearms control & gun law.


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TL;DR: This article examined the use of executive orders on environmental issues from presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama to determine both use of the executive order as a policy tool, and the significance and tone of the order.
Abstract: What role does the executive order play in policy regarding environmental issues? This has become an important question during President Obama’s Administration. There has been concern about the overuse of executive orders to implement public policy. In policy areas such as immigration and gun control, President Obama has considered the use of the executive order as a mean to move policy forward on his agenda that has been stalled in Congress. A public discussion ensued on the use of executive orders that is not new in the policy literature. To address this research question, executive orders on environmental issues from Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama are examined to determine both use of the order as a policy tool, and the significance and tone of the order. Results show that presidents are using environmental executive orders routinely over the decades but not in a manner that targets a specific environmental issue, location, term of office, or focuses on a particularly environmentally-oriented agency. Results show that certain presidents do display a pro-environmental tone in their orders which is unrelated to the ideology or political party affiliation of the president or environmental issue involved. In conclusion, orders classified as having major significance in terms of policy content tend to have a pro-environmental tone. Most likely, presidents will continue to the use the executive order to protect the environment. The conclusion is that environmental policies are impacted by the unilateral action of executive orders.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study about the participation of the Child Health Policy Institute (CHPI) in a law reform process ultimately aimed at reducing firearm injuries and deaths in the country by exercising stricter gun control through legislation and other reforms.
Abstract: Children have special protection under the South African constitution, including the right to safety, health and an environment conducive to their wellbeing and optimal development. Yet, firearms contribute significantly to the high incidence of deaths and injuries among South African children and in young males in their late teens. This case study is about the participation of the Child Health Policy Institute (CHPI) in a law reform process ultimately aimed at reducing firearm injuries and deaths in the country by exercising stricter gun control through legislation and other reforms. This feature briefly describes the political context in which the project was initiated, the research on firearm injuries and deaths in children conducted by the CHPI, and the dissemination of the research findings. The role of the CHPI as an academic institution within the Gun Control Alliance is also examined as are the lessons learnt in trying the bridge the gap between research and law reform.

4 citations

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TL;DR: The authors analyzes Marvell's empirical findings and their policy implications for gun control legislation and points out that the statistical results actually support the stronger finding that some of the juvenile gun bans are associated with a statistically significant increase in homicides nationwide.
Abstract: This comment on Thomas Marvell's “The Impact of Banning Juvenile Gun Possession” analyzes Marvell’s empirical findings and their policy implications for gun control legislation. While Marvell’s article stresses the absence of any finding favorable to juvenile gun bans, this comment points out that the statistical results actually support the stronger finding that some of the juvenile gun bans are associated with a statistically significant increase in homicides nationwide. Under either finding, the juvenile gun bans are welfare reducing because of the inherently costly nature of conventional gun control legislation. The concluding discussion argues that the failure to draw appropriate policy conclusions from methodologically sound findings on controversial subjects such as gun control undercuts the value of academic research as compared with competing influences in the public debate.

4 citations

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TL;DR: Current knowledge is inconclusive, but does not provide strong support for some existing Australian firearm control measures, and evidence suggests that further reducing the levels of firearm ownership in Australia will not cause an overall reduction in rates of homicide or suicide.
Abstract: Objectives: To examine the basic premises of gun control and the relationship linking legal firearm ownership to homicide and suicide in Australia. Data sources/ Available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics regarding firearms ownership, study selection: suicide and homicide in Australia were reviewed. Medline database searches using key words of ‘firearms’, ‘homicide, statistics, trends’, ‘suicide, statistics, trends’ and ‘violence, prevention and control, statistics’ identified English language publications relating to violence prevention and/or firearms from 1966 to 1996. These papers were manually searched to identify additional references. Internet home pages of The Coalition for Gun Control, The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, Handgun Control Inc. and The National Rifle Association were reviewed and information that could be independently validated was considered. Results: Few papers approach the subject of violence with the same focus, limiting the ability to perform meta-analysis or direct comparisons of data. Conclusions: Current knowledge is inconclusive, but does not provide strong support for some existing Australian firearm control measures. Evidence suggests that further reducing the levels of firearm ownership in Australia will not cause an overall reduction in rates of homicide or suicide.

4 citations

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TL;DR: In the past two decades, security has come to be one of the most contested and debated concepts within the domain of international relations as mentioned in this paper, and its state-centred contours interpreted narrowly as security of territory from external aggression, or as protection of national interests in foreign policy or as global security from the threat of nuclear holocaust have today made way for a new security understanding that includes economic, environmental, cultural sectors and new security referents.
Abstract: In the past two decades, security has come to be one of the most contested and debated concepts within the domain of international relations. Its state-centred contours interpreted narrowly as security of territory from external aggression, or as protection of national interests in foreign policy or as global security from the threat of nuclear holocaust, have today made way for a new security understanding that includes economic, environmental, cultural sectors and new security referents—societies, nonstate actors, individuals. This conceptual widening has been complemented at a practical level by a growing focus on conflicts and security challenges that stem from within states and which trace their roots to non-traditional sources such as drugs, terrorism, small arms, cyber war and trafficking in human beings.

4 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202356
202294
202139
202043
201950
201860