Most empirical studies of the effects of nuclear weapons treat these weapons as a binary variable, but there are strong reasons to think that the effects of a state’s nuclear arsenal are conditioned by that state’s policies. I argue that the effect of nuclear weapons in non-existential disputes is determined by what I call nuclear risk: the overall likelihood that these weapons may be used with...

Michael Brown famously asked ‘Who owns native culture?’ This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of disputes between indigenous and settler populations. My case study is the dispute between the New Zealand government and Maori tribal groupings concerning ownership of the fores...

Scholars are increasingly interested in measuring latent political concepts embedded in written or spoken records. After all, most important political behaviors and outcomes are encoded in language. However, current approaches of turning natural language into meaningful measures are sometimes unsatisfying, relying on either costly and unreliable human coding or automated methods for document cl...

Attention in conflict-afflicted societies is often focused on violence, ethnic animosities and territorial disputes, rather than the economic costs. Can exposure to financial markets, that align individuals’ risks and returns with those of the broader economy, also lead individuals to reevaluate the costs and benefits of conflict and peace initiatives? Can this happen even in the context of a p...

Safe and legal access to abortion is precondition for gender equality. Yet, in many EU Member States they remain controversial, endangered or absent. Recently, the European Parliament passed a resolution articulating defence right EU: Mati? resolution. Via an analysis of debates parliamentary processes around resolution, this article analyses different discursive constructions within EP by poli...

Abstract From the perspective of climate ethics, this article proposes to analyse Payments for Environmental Services (PES) at local (case study in São Paulo) and national (National Plan Services) dimensions. The practices observed these Brazilian political arenas were assessed via content analysis; guiding principles action, we dynamics public policymaking actors light categories such as plann...

lndustrial disputes in general are settled through the mechanism of collective bargaining at the initial stage. The failure of collective bargaining leads the disputes to the system of conciliation under the statutory compulsion. The lndustrial Disputes Act 1947 under Section 2(K) defines the industrial dispute as "any dispute or difference between employers and employers or between employers a...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...