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In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security … trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and … the counter-discursive influences on each country's legal discourse. -- Central America ; violence ; drugs ; gender …
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The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand … constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency. Also, each country has its own manner of reaction to those problems. In El … protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less …
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Delegitimierung der politischen Elite geführt. Ein weiterer zentraler Befund ist, dass der konkrete Einfluss des Erdöls auf Gewalt je … auch niedrigschwellige Gewalt gefördert; dies vor allem über sozioökonomische Kausalmechanismen (Verfall der Erdölpreise … nach spezifischer Form der Gewalt deutlich zu variieren scheint. (GIGA) …
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In diesem Papier wird das sozialwissenschaftliche Analysefeld formaler und informeller Politik ausgeleuchtet und mit einer institutionellen Perspektive verknüpft. Dazu wird zunächst die bisherige Auseinandersetzung mit diesen beiden Formen der Politik im Rahmen der vergleichenden...
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The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...
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but also their power in the Committee of Acuerdos), the category of the position to be filled (whether involving Supreme … Justiz" von Buenos Aires sowie der Staatsanwaltschaft. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Macht des Senats von einer Reihe von … der Parlamentsfraktion umfasst, sondern auch ihre Macht in der Verhandlungskommission), der Art der zu besetzenden Stelle …
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This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability of federalism. It does so by suggesting that Weingast´s seminal model of marketpreserving federalism falls short of accounting for the poor fiscal performance of multitiered systems in the...
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Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in Africa. Because this is usually inferred from aggregate data of national election results, it might prove to be an ecological fallacy. The evidence based on individual data from...
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