This article introduces a ritual theory of judicial dissent. Conventional accounts the functions dissent, whether in context domestic or international systems, can be grouped into three thematic categories: ‘dissent as transparency’, opposition’ and conscience’. Leaving aside disagreement over dissent should institutionalised at all, these institutional are generally accepted with little disput...

Normatively inappropriate scientific dissent prevents warranted closure of controversies and confuses the public about state policy-relevant science, such as anthropogenic climate change. Against recent criticism by de Melo-Martín Intemann viability any conception normatively dissent, I identify three conditions for dissent: its generation process is politically illegitimate, it imposes an unju...

The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest’s beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by b...

M. NILS PETERSON,∗ MARKUS J. PETERSON,† AND TARLA RAI PETERSON‡ ∗Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2258, U.S.A. ‡Department of Communication, Program in Peace & Confl...