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The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural and personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern and the ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders and government, the human face has also figured prominently into biometrics that feed posthuman questions and anxieties. For while one requirement of biometrics is concerned with "unicity," or that which identifies an individual as unique, another requirement is that it identify "universality," confirming an individual's membership in the species. Shakespeare's sonnets grapple with the crisis of encountering a universal beauty in a unique specimen to which Time and Nature nonetheless afford no special privilege. Between fair and dark lies a posthuman lament over the injustice of natural law and the social valorizations arbitrarily marshaled to defend it.
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The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural and personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern and the ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders and government, the human face has also figured prominently into biometrics that feed posthuman questions and anxieties. For while one requirement of biometrics is concerned with "unicity," or that which identifies an individual as unique, another requirement is that it identify "universality," confirming an individual's membership in the species. Shakespeare's sonnets grapple with the crisis of encountering a universal beauty in a unique specimen to which Time and Nature nonetheless afford no special privilege. Between fair and dark lies a posthuman lament over the injustice of natural law and the social valorizations arbitrarily marshaled to defend it.
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In: Journal for early modern cultural studies: JEMCS ; official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 160-165
ISSN: 1553-3786
In: American review of politics, Band 25, S. 194-196
ISSN: 1051-5054
In: Women & politics: a quarterly journal of research and policy studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 75-81
ISSN: 1540-9473
In: Women & politics, Band 3, S. 75-81
ISSN: 0195-7732
In: Women & politics: a quarterly journal of research and policy studies, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 77-81
ISSN: 1540-9473
In: Journal for early modern cultural studies: JEMCS ; official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 26-56
ISSN: 1553-3786
In: Political behavior, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 147-161
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 695-712
ISSN: 1467-9248
Divided partisan control of the American national government is not a new phenomenon. Of the 41 presidents from Washington to Bush, 20 saw the House of Representatives under the control of the opposing party. While divided control of government is nothing new, however, its recent causes are. Before 1955, divided control was due to election reversals in the off year – easily interpretable in terms of negative retrospective judgements or switched policy choices on the part of the electorate. After 1955, on the other hand, four of the seven presidents were elected with a House of Representatives controlled by the opposing party. By analysing data collected during the 1988 national elections, we distinguish between congressional and presidential ticket-splitting and find their causes to be complex. It is caused, in part, by congressional incumbency and ballot formats, but wider social forces are also responsible for ticket-splitting.
In: Political studies, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 695
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 26, Heft 6, S. 670-687
ISSN: 0004-4687
Women in South Korea, as elsewhere, are assuming public and political offices in large numbers. Yet, the authors believe, it is important to avoid the assumption that the increase in women serving in various positions in the political system indicates an increase in the political influence of women. It is argued that the political circumstances of the South Korean Fifth Republic have led to the recruitment of women political elites, but that the conflicting traditions of Neo-Confucianism and Protestant Christianity tend to reduce the influence of these elites. (DÜI-Sen)
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