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In legal decisions standpoints can be supported by formal and also by substantive interpretative arguments. Formal arguments consist of reasons the weight or force of which is essentially dependent on the authoritativeness that the reasons may also have: In this connection one may think of linguistic and systemic arguments. On the other hand, substantive arguments are not backed up by authority, but consist of a direct invocation of moral, political, economic, or other social considerations. Formal arguments can be analyzed as exclusionary reasons: The authoritative character excludes—in principle—substantial counterarguments. Formal arguments are sometimes used to conceal value judgements based on substantial arguments. This paper deals with reconstructing problems regarding this strategic use of formal arguments in legal decisions, with a focus on linguistic argumentation.

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- Law, Philosophy, Political Economics
- by Gina K Thornburg, PhD
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- Genetics, Microbiology, Human Evolution, Philosophy
- by Rinku Roy Chowdhury
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- Geography, Human Geography, Decision Making, Political Ecology
- by Emmanuel C. Alozie
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- United Nations, Political Economics, Middle East, United States

The objective of our paper is to contribute to the accounting education literature by demonstrating that there are significant differences among final year undergraduate accounting students in the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Malaysia with respect to an important concept in auditing, namely, perceptions of external auditors’ independence. To attain this objective, we make an original contribution to accounting cross-cultural studies by operationalizing culture in terms ofindependent and interdependent construals of selfhood. These fundamental core cultural differences are important because they play a major role in regulating psychological processes including perceptions. Additionally, to gain insight into the evolving complexities associated with understanding culture in a global economy, the concept of acculturation is invoked in hypothesis formulation. We find support for the hypothesis that students from countries with greater political, economic and socio–cultural inte...

- by Chris Patel
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- Cultural Studies, Economics, Learning and Teaching, Internal Audit

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- by Willard Fields
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- Geography, Political Economy, Urban Morphology, New Orleans
- by E.Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa
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- Urology, Healthcare, Political Economics, Young Adult
- by Galen Joseph
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- Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Identities, Political Economics

Political empowerment of women starts with understanding the political and economic context in which they operate, as well as rigorous gender analysis, and it requires a comprehensive approach to programming that looks beyond the legislature. The aim of women political empowerment is more than just having women in elective or appointive positions, or attaining at least 30% presence of women in the national legislative – these are but a part of it; the ultimate goal of women political empowerment is focused on women’s effort to make their voices heard (USAID, Women in Power Project Summary Report). This thesis was conducted to examine the various practices implemented by International Organizations to empower women in political participation. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected for the study carried out in this thesis and content analysis was employed.

- by Iboro Udo
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- Sociology, Development Economics, Political Economy, Gender Equality

The City at Stake:Stakeholder Mapping The City By Sophie Esmann Andersen and Anne Ellerup Nielsen Abstract Studies of the city have been addressed from many different approaches such as law, political science, art history and public... more

- by Anne Ellerup Nielsen
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- Sociology, Public Administration, Climate Change, Political Science
- by Jok Jok
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- Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Health Care
- by Antonio Santamaria
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- Economic History, Latin American Studies, Public Finance, Public Economics
- by Gerald Markowitz
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- Propaganda, Petroleum, Air pollution, Public Health
- by David Craig
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- Economics, International Development, Social Inclusion, Political Economics

This paper explores Malay songket motifs in relation to Malaysia’s cultural identity. An examination of government National Culture policy on fixed identity is contrasted with dynamic reality. The policy was imposed on a multi-racial population based on the concept of ‘Malay’ with no recognition of others. Divisions amongst the populace were created by Malay specific privileges. Failure to address others becomes the main interest of this research. Songket motifs are used to demonstrate the Malay’s link with traditional customs. The motifs symbolize Malay dominance in clinging on to power, echoing Malay history. Evidence of the motifs’ assimilation with Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic influences proved that there is no Malay ‘purity.’ The researcher’s practice transforms flat images of motifs into artworks. Practice differs from the norm of Malaysian artists, who translate Malay culture into art. A Malaysian artist having worked in the UK and USA, the researcher puts theory into practice....

- by Azizi Bahauddin
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- Cultural Identity, Political Economics, National Culture, Social System
- by Lavanya Pannem
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- Engineering, Sustainable Development, Energy Conversion, Power Plant
- by Elizabeth Havice
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- Law, Political Science, Political Economics, Pacific Islands
- by Becky Mansfield
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- Human Geography, Political Economy, Environmental Management, Political Economics
- by Michel Vandenbroeck
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- Education, Social Problems, Early Childhood Education, British

Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental regimes and political economic/structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between increasingly globalized rural livelihoods and in-place land change, assessing results from social surveys of smallholding households in the southern Yucatán region. We examine evidence for a transition in agricultural livelihood strategies as smallholders adjust to changing political economic and institutional conditions, and link these transitioning strategies to land use changes. Based on household surveys in 1997 and 2003, we comparatively assess both changes in the selection of livelihood strategies and in the land use and cover impacts of those strategies. Our results indicate that although impacts of given strategies have changed little over this period, there are increasing proportions of households pursuing two divergent adjustment paths—one of agricultural withdrawal and one of agricultural intensification and commercialization. We investigate what sociodemographic characteristics differentiate the groups of households following distinct livelihood strategies. Our findings point to the possibility of simultaneous and contradictory land change outcomes as smallholders adjust in different ways to their intensified incorporation into global economies.

- by Claudia Radel
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- Multidisciplinary, Political Economics, Land Use Change, Structural Transformation
- by Jane Menzies
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- International Business, Politics, China, Applied Economics
- by Enrique Rodriguez
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- Health Promotion, Health Care, Community Participation, Political Economics
- by Diana Davis
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- Indigenous Knowledge, Desertification, Multidisciplinary, Political Economics
- by Jule Gassenheimer and +1
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- Marketing, Distributive Justice, Political Economics, Tourism
- by Jeremia Njeru
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- Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Kenya, Solid Waste Management
- by Yeo Mei Lan
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- Pakistan, Survey Research, Political Economics, Fast Food

The evaluation of transport projects has become increasingly complex. Different aspects have to be taken into account and the consequences of the problems are usually far reaching and the different policy alternatives are numerous and difficult to predict. Several pressure or action groups have also emerged causing an even more complex decision making process. The use of multi criteria analysis for the evaluation of transport projects has increased due to this increasing complexity of the problem situation. At the same time, the importance of stakeholders within this evaluation process should have been recognized. Researches on transport projects are generally carried out to provide information to policymakers that have to operate within restrictive parameters (political, economical, social, etcâ€¦). Researchers should therefore take greater account of the different priorities of stakeholders such as policymakers, private enterprises and households. These stakeholders should be inco...

- by Samnang Heng
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- Khmer Studies, Agricultural Economics, The Classical Tradition, Urban Sociology
- by Muhamad Putra
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- Cultural Economics, Training, Survey Research, Human Resources
- by Yoshiki Yamagata
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- Climate Change, Ecological Economics, Southeast Asia, Carbon Sequestration
- by Pascale Ehrenfreund
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- Space Policy, Political Economics, Information Exchange, Paradigm Shift
- by Genevieve Ames, M Ames, Ph.D.
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- Sociology, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Political Economy
- by Margherita Russo
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- Community Development, Education Policy, National Identity, Regional development
- by Tom Ginsburg
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- Religion, Law, Comparative Politics, Globalization
- by R. Aspeslagh
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- Education, Political Economics, Human right, Theory and Practice
- by Sandy Brown
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- Sustainable agriculture, Governance, Social Justice, Agriculture
- by Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
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- Sociology, Anthropology, Political Economics, American Sociology
- by Ian Hussey
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- Political Economy, Globalization, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Marxism
- by Kyle Knight
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- Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Social Capital, Consumption

In July 2004, a Chinese claim that the ancient Kingdom of Koguryo (37 BC-AD 668) was China's vassal state ignited a firestorm of protest in South Korea. The decade-long South Korean love affair with China appears to have ended, as increasing numbers of South Koreans have begun to view their colossal neighbor with new suspicion. What were the causes and consequences of this controversy? Rather than forwarding the usual political, economic and security explanations, this paper interrogates the deeper identity politics at stake, arguing that the Koguryo controversy implicates the very meaning of being Korean or Chinese in the 21st century.

- by Peter Gries
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- East Asia, Multidisciplinary, Political Economics
- by Christopher Rosin
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- Sociology, Human Geography, Microeconomics, Political Economy
- by Yanuar Sumarlan
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- Political Parties, Cold War, Political Economics, Shifting Cultivation
- by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
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- Gastronomy, Culture, Political Economics, Chip
- by guido tabellini
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- Economics, Political Science, Rational Choice, Economic policy

The present period of economic globalization originated following World War II. Given the strongly protectionist tendencies prevailing at the time, how did this happen? Structural economic and military causes, along with intervening coalitional and institutional factors, are considered. Trade policy change is examined in the five largest trading economies—Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and the United States. Structural economic causes best explain why protectionist tendencies were so strong, and why they were weakest in the United States and the Federal Republic. The liberalizing trend inaugurated in the United States and the Federal Republic was also facilitated by coalitional side payments to agriculture. Cold War–related military interests appear to have been the strongest impetus behind the unilateral form of the liberalization.

- by Shale Horowitz
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- Japanese Studies, Political Economy, French History, Peace and Conflict Studies

Smith and Marx had two very different opinions of capitalism, that although formed a generation apart, provide completely different conceptions of the nature of the system. This essay explains both Smith and Marx's views, how they came to... more

- by Timothy C J Spinks
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- Economics, Politics, Adam Smith, Karl Marx
- by Jaime Argollo
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- Climate Change, Political Economics, Human development index, Life Expectancy

Written in the twilight of the Mbeki Presidency, this paper considers the role that skills development has in the sustainability of the South African political–economic project. It explores some of the disarticulations of public policy and argues that these both undermine public sector delivery and open up opportunities for private provision to be, under certain circumstances, more responsive to the challenges of national development. We argue that there is a possibility that the state could work more smartly with both sets of providers. Crucially, however, this would necessitate working more smartly within itself. This was a major plank of the Mbeki strategy but it has failed conspicuously with regard to the Education–Labour relationship. Whether a new President can achieve a radical reworking of this relationship may be an important indicator of the viability of any new development project.The article concludes with reflections on the renewed international interest in skills development as a way of responding to the real and imagined pressures and opportunities of globalisation. Given the limited success of South Africa in pursuing skills development, we ask whether other African governments are any more likely to achieve a genuine combination of political, social and economic sustainability. The sustainability of national development projects in Africa is likely to continue to be problematic, and skills development will only ever be able to play a limited role in addressing this challenge. Nonetheless, governments can do more to support the sustainability of these skills development systems and need to pay attention to both public and private provision in so doing.

- by Simon McGrath
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- Educational Development, Politics, Economic Development, Public sector
- by Klaus Bosselmann
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- Human Ecology, Law, Anthropology, Political Economy