Legislation

About: Legislation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 62664 publications have been published within this topic receiving 585188 citations. The topic is also known as: law & act.

Compulsory admission of psychiatric patients – an international comparison

Abstract: The frequency of compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals varies considerably between countries and regions. However, the differences are partly artificial, as the figures available are not fully comparable; this is mainly owing to differing definitions of "compulsory" and the methodological shortcomings of most studies in this field. In addition, there are also clear real differences, most of which result from different legislation and administrative regulations. Characteristics of the patient that influence the risk of compulsory admission include diagnosis and certain sociodemographic and social factors. Most studies, however, are based on highly selected populations. Furthermore, the results depend heavily on the commitment frequency of a country and therefore eventually also on the restrictiveness of legislation. The lack of methodologically sound studies, internationally comparable data and internationally published information is regrettable, as international comparison and discussion would certainly be valuable, especially for countries that are in the process of re-evaluating their commitment criteria and mental health legislation.

The birth of a nation: Accounting and Canada’s first nations, 1860–1900

Abstract: The 1860–1900 period was both the “birth” of Canada but also the birth and institutionalization of a specific set of social relations between the federal government and First Nations peoples. This study examines the roles played by accounting and funding relations within the process of nation building. Throughout this formative period in Canada’s history, governance was attempted via the introduction of financial legislation and enacted by the Indian Department and agents in the field. As our analysis highlights, legislative initiatives, Indian Department pronouncements and the activities of agents imposed, enlisted and implied a variety of accounting technologies. This study not only explores how the federal government has used accounting/funding mechanisms in the attempt to translate government policy regarding indigenous peoples into practice but also provides a history of the present by examining the historical consequences of these interventions.

Social Care in a Mixed Economy

Abstract: Historical and policy context community care - markets and enabling the mixed economy in 1991 local response to the legislation and guidance building a mixed economy social care is different residential care home transfers.

Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal

Abstract: At a time when many leading civil rights officials are obfuscating the history of civil rights in the USA, and undermining enforcement methods which have proved effective, this study challenges conventional wisdom on the genesis of civil rights legislation in the US. It seeks to advance our knowledge of the post-New Deal civil rights debates, using empirical, quantitative data to answer some of the many questions concerning the relative impact of movements, public opinion, and political leadership on civil rights-related legislation.

Politics, Persuasion and the People before the Social War (150–90 B.C.)*

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a particular model of how Roman politics worked, and of what Roman politics before the Social War was ‘about’. In essence I want to place in the centre of our conception the picture of an orator addressing a crowd in the Forum; a picture of someone using the arts of rhetoric to persuade an anonymous crowd about something. The most important subject of oratory, and the most important fundamental right exercised by whoever came to vote, was legislation. Yet the greatest of all the extraordinary distortions which have been imposed on our conception of Republican politics in the twentieth century is that the process of legislation, and the content of the legislation passed by the people, have both ceased to be central to it. With that we have ceased to listen sufficiently to the actual content of oratory addressed to the people, to the arguments from rights, from the necessities of the preservation of the res publica, from historical precedents, both Roman and non-Roman, and from social attitudes and prejudices. In the second century above all, we can see how the prestige which the office-holding class derived from family descent and personal standing on the one hand was matched on the other by popular demands for appropriate conduct, and by popular suspicions of private luxury, of profiteering from the conduct of public affairs, and of improper collaboration with wrong-doers both at home and abroad.