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Socioeconomics of crime and discretionary punishment: the case of Ghana

Akpalu, Wisdom; Mohammed, Anatu - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) February, pp. 116-126

countries may not guarantee retributive justice. Indeed the judiciary is likely to grant favours to elites who steal more and … employing Suits index and regression analysis to verify the feasibility of retributive justice in the presence of unlimited …

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Recovering Nussbaum's Aristotelian roots

Deneulin, Séverine - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) June, pp. 624-632

of the capabilities approach. Originality/value – The paper seeks to build an account of social justice based on the …

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Nussbaum's political liberalism: justice and the capability threshold

Roberts, Peri - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) June, pp. 613-623

justice is her addition of the notion of a capability threshold below which no dignified human life can be lived. This … capability threshold identifies a standard for distributive justice that any decent political order must secure for all citizens … into a theory of social justice, then, rather than being set locally at different levels, the capability threshold may need …

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Nussbaum, cosmopolitanism and contemporary political problems

Burns, Anthony - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) June, pp. 648-662

Purpose – The paper aims to be a critical engagement with the ideas of Martha Nussbaum, as expressed in her recent book Creating Capabilities. Design/methodology/approach – The author's discussion focuses on the relationship which exists between Nussbaum's capabilities approach and...

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ROLE OF ARBITRATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO STATE JUSTICE

Bagnaru, Alina Mioara Cobuz - In: "Perspectives of Business Law” Journal 2 (2013) 1, pp. 57-65

Arbitration is an alternative jurisdiction to state justice, characterized by privacy. As part of managing this type of …

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Are Justices of the US Supreme Court Islands Unto Themselves? Examining external influences on US Supreme Court rulings in securities cases

Fedderke, J.W.; Mentoruzzo, M. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

This paper examines whether the voting behavior of Supreme Court justices in 49 cases related to securities legislation since 1936, shows systematic variation in a range of measures of the personal ideological stance of the justices, a range of measures of prevailing economic conditions, and a...

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From order to justice

Hardin, Russell - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 4 (2005) 2, pp. 175-194

We can observe in the progression of the work of Thomas Hobbes through David Hume to John Rawls a development from a focus on severe disorder to order under law and then to concern with distribution. This striking development is not due simply to changes of normative views, but is in large part...

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Children and democracy: theory and policy

Schrag, Francis - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 3 (2004) 3, pp. 365-379

This article identifies four approaches to arguing for democracy, showing that none has an adequate way of supporting both full adult inclusion and the exclusion of children. I focus in Section 2 on the arguments of David Estlund and Thomas Christiano, showing that their arguments against...

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Factorial Survey Methods for Studying Beliefs and Judgments

Jasso, Guillermina - In: Sociological Methods & Research 34 (2006) 3, pp. 334-423

determination of marital happiness) and a normative-judgment equation (describing judgments of the justice of earnings). This …

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The Reform Treaty: the Institutionalization of the Exception. “The British and Irish Baskets”: Fragmentation of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?

VELICU, Cristinela - In: Europolity – Continuity and Change in European … 2 (2008) 1, pp. 42-48

This article proposes to offer a concise perspective on the main innovations regarding the Title IV: Justice an … implications that can occur after applying different exceptions in the process of creating a space of Liberty, Security and Justice. …

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