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The pleasures of reading.--Bishop Berkeley's life and letters.--Handel.--Cobden and the Manchester school.--Politics and political economy.--A fragment on progress.--The religion of humanity. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The fourth edition of Education, Equality and Human Rights has been fully updated to reflect the economic, political, social and cultural changes in educational and political policy and practice, as austerity continues and in the light of the EU referendum. Written by a carefully selected group of experts, each of the five equality issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class are covered as areas in their own right as well as in relation to education.

Examines the human rights positions of three ASEAN states in reacting to US-led pressure to conform to a Western-set global standard, and the Canadian and Australian positions which concentrate on the worst abuses. Serious abuses include torture, extra-legal killings, excessive force by the state, and political detentions.

It is often argued that countries with a high population share of children and young workers should attract large capital inflows from aging industrialized economies. However, many of these countries deter foreign investors by a high risk of creeping or outright expropriation. In this paper we explore whether the correlation between countries' demographic structure and the perceived security of property rights reflects a causal relationship. We show that, once we control for other potential determinants of expropriation risk, the ratio of young to old workers has a positive effect on the perceived security of property rights in low-income countries. This effect is the stronger the more democratic the political system. ; Es wird häufig argumentiert, dass die internationalen Unterschiede zwischen den demografischen Strukturen Anreize für Kapitalmobilität aus alternden und kapitalreichen Industrieländern in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer mit einer wachsenden Arbeitsbevölkerung schaffen. Allerdings werden diese Anreize in vielen gering entwickelten Regionen durch ein hohes Risiko direkter und indirekter Enteignung verzerrt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird untersucht, ob zwischen den demografischen Strukturen und dem geringen Schutz von Eigentumsrechten ein Kausalzusammenhang besteht. Entgegen der Korrelation zeigen die Ergebnisse der empirischen Analyse, dass es einen positiven Einfluss eines höheren Bevölkerungsanteils junger Individuen auf die Sicherheit der Eigentumsrechte ausländischer Investoren in Entwicklungsländern gibt. Dieser Effekt zeigt sich umso stärker je demokratischer das politische System eines Landes ist.

Throughout the postwar period, concepts of juvenile delinquency have influenced how state institutions and established political elites have responded to emerging immigrant and non-immigrant subcultures in West Berlin. Parallel and connected to the proliferation of emerging subcultures, fraught debates about the moral degeneration of youth became a significant aspect of postwar West German political discourse. In the process, media and political commentaries often blurred the boundaries between the violent actions of relatively apolitical youth milieus and increasingly assertive students and apprentices who were prepared to challenge established socioeconomic structures from both left- and right-wing ideological perspectives. This article will examine how existing discourses on juvenile delinquency affected the responses of security services, government agencies, and political elites to the emergence of immigrant and non-immigrant subcultures in West Berlin from the mid 1940s to the early 1990s. Among many other factors, the frequent recourse of state officials and parliamentary politicians to the language of juvenile delinquency when dealing with the occupations played an important role in these developments. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction to dirtbagging -- Topo : what exactly are qualitative methods? -- Picking your proj : identifying your research question -- On belay : connecting your work to an anchor -- Mapping out the route : how and when research design matters -- Starting on the right foot : making and justifying your case selection -- Flaking out the rope : how to check your sample -- Bivvy time : the "fieldwork" model of data collection -- The crux : content analysis, analytical memos, and other tricks -- Placing pro : making causal claims with qualitative data -- Living on the sharp end : dealing with skeptics of qualitative research -- The sweeper.

The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; examines the historical record for words and concepts similar to 'rights'; and highlights the move towards recognising patients' rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Two policy studies are central to the book. One concentrates on Japan's 1989 AIDS Prevention Act, and the other examines the protracted controversy over whether brain death should become a legal definition of death. Rejecting conventional accounts that recourse to rights is less important to resolving disputes than other cultural forms,The Ritual of Rights in Japan uses these contemporary cases to argue that the invocation of rights is a critical aspect of how conflicts are articulated and resolved

The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; examines the historical record for words and concepts similar to 'rights'; and highlights the move towards recognising patients' rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Two policy studies are central to the book. One concentrates on Japan's 1989 AIDS Prevention Act, and the other examines the protracted controversy over whether brain death should become a legal definition of death. Rejecting conventional accounts that recourse to rights is less important to resolving disputes than other cultural forms,The Ritual of Rights in Japan uses these contemporary cases to argue that the invocation of rights is a critical aspect of how conflicts are articulated and resolved

After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom. After this initial wave of enthusiasm, however, political forces that had lain concealed during the state socialist era began to emerge and establish a new religious-nationalist orthodoxy. While Solidarity garnered most of the credit for democratization in Poland, it had worked quietly with the Catholic Church, to which a large majority of Poles at least nominally adhered. As