In the last three decades, legal delegation of monetary policy to independent central banks (CBI) has achieved status a global norm good governance. The recent backlash against this independence is an important but understudied trend. Our article analyzes potential for reversals with focus on Latin America where CBI was effective in maintaining price stability, placed constraints governments. W...

Abstract The existing assessments of EU politicization have predominantly focused on the media and in actors that are reported arena. This chapter offers a novel approach to study by focusing, instead, institutional arena six countries. Using MAPLE dataset parliamentary debates, with total 724,963 speeches covering period 20 years, this comparative longitudinal analysis at level, assessing impa...

the main objective of this research is the critique of the modern education in the light of hanna arendt’s educational thoughts. to achieve this goal, the descriptive-analytic method is used. in such a way that, at first, while reviewing arendt’s thoughts, the concept and status of education in her thoughts has been studied. then, the modern education has been criticized in the light of her edu...

ince the 1970s, a disabled people's movement has become established as a political force worldwide. It has confronted the orthodox view that disability should be defined in terms of individual impairment that requires medical treatment. In contrast, disability theory and practice argue that this movement arises from society's failure to remove the wide-ranging social, economic, and environmenta...

The restricted definition of ‘‘climate change’’ used by the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) has profoundly affected the science, politics, and policy processes associated with the international response to the climate issue. Specifically, the FCCC definition has contributed to the gridlock and ineffectiveness of the global response to the challenge of climate change. This paper ar...

Since 9/11, and even more so with the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, violence in the name of God is predominantly perceived as a “different” kind of violence, which triggers more “absolute” and radical manifestations than its secular counter parts. In its first part, this article will challenge this so called exceptionalism of religious violence by questioning the neat divide b...

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe—one peri-urban, one urban and one rural—to provide a window on current processes of impoverishment and adverse coping. Each case and location highlight key aspects of Zimbabwe’s recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott’s work on the persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock i...