scholarly journals From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering Between the World Wars

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Weinrib
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
American Civil Liberties Union ◽  
The Relationship

In the formative years of the modern First Amendment, civil liberties lawyers struggled to justify their participation in a legal system they perceived as biased and broken. For decades, they charged, the courts had fiercely protected property rights even while they tolerated broad-based suppression of the “personal rights,” such as expressive freedom, through which peaceful challenges to industrial interests might have proceeded. This article focuses on three phases in the relationship between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the courts in the period between the world wars: first, the ACLU’s attempt to promote worker mobilization by highlighting judicial hypocrisy; second, its effort to induce incremental legal reform by mobilizing public opinion; and third, its now-familiar reliance on the judiciary to insulate minority views against state intrusion and majoritarian abuses. By reconstructing these competing approaches, the article explores the trade-offs – some anticipated and some unintended – entailed by the ACLU’s mature approach.

By Popular Demand: The Effect of Public Opinion on Income Inequality

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 261-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Andersen ◽  
Anthony Heath ◽  
David Weakliem
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Reciprocal Causation ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distribution Of Income

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between public support for wage differentials and actual income inequality using data from the World Values Surveys. The distribution of income is more equal in nations where public opinion is more egalitarian. There is some evidence that the opinions of people with higher incomes are more influential than those of people with low incomes. Although the estimated relationship is stronger in democracies, it is present even under non-democratic governments, and the hypothesis that effects are equal cannot be rejected. We consider the possibility of reciprocal causation by means of an instrumental variables analysis, which yields no evidence that income distribution affects opinion.

A discussion of Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager's Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
Rebekah Tromble
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
The World ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

The 2005 Danish cartoon crisis has been the topic of much discussion among political science scholars. In September 2011 we ran a symposium on Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World that centered on the tensions between multiculturalism, civility, and freedom of expression disclosed by the controversy. Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager’s Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis (Princeton 2014) revisits the Danish crisis. Drawing on randomized experiments linked to broader survey research, the authors offer a nuanced account of Danish public opinion, and argue that the sensitivity of Danes to civil liberties concerns explains why the cartoon controversy did not result in an anti-Muslim backlash. The topic, the argument, and the methodology are important, and so we have invited a range of political science scholars to review the book. — Jeffrey C. Isaac

scholarly journals Putting the Cart Before the Horse: How the Eu-Africa Cooperation on Migration Has Failed and What To Do About It

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Augustin Nguh
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Migration And Development ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Positive Impacts

With the ongoing Covid19 pandemic, the adoption of policies and measures restricting mobility can be observed all over the world. This paper notes that the relationship between migration and development is circular and complex, embracing both negative and positive impacts. It explores the enactment of migration management policies that favour development at home (Africa) to prevent migration, with the trade-offs of security concerns. The paper finds these policies and measures to have failed and proposes what can be done to ensure a better Africa-European Union (EU) migration management.

Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Feddersen ◽  
Kimia Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Government Report ◽  
The Usa ◽  
House Floor ◽  
American Civil Liberties Union

The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The introduction of H.R. 3886 in 2000 was one in a series of attempts to formalize U.S. banks' monitoring of their customers. The bill was prompted by a government report that named and criticized U.S. banks for laundering billions of dollars linked to drug trafficking, fraud, and organized crime. Interest groups in favor of H.R. 3886 were predominantly law enforcement agencies that viewed current anti-money laundering laws as ineffective. Groups opposed to the bill included the American Civil Liberties Union, which believed that the collection of more information about bank customers' activities was an invasion of privacy, and the American Bankers Association, which claimed that the legislation would impose unnecessary costs on banks. The case can be used to introduce the distributive politics framework for analyzing non-market issues and formulating nonmarket strategies in the context of government institutions. The epilogue reveals that H.R. 3886 died before it ever reached the House floor, but that an expanded version of the legislation ultimately passed---with the support of stakeholders who originally fought it---as part of the USA PATRIOT Act after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This stance reversal provides an opportunity to explore how events, public opinion, and the media can create windows of policy opportunityUtilize a framework for analyzing options for non-market action – Formulate a strategy for nonmarket action – Recognize how public opinion influences the opportunity for non-market action through events and/or new information, political actors, media coverage, and policy windows

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anna Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
The World ◽  
Commodity Derivatives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Global Food

The Introduction provides an overview of the events of the 2007–08 global food crisis and surveys commonplace accounts of its causation. After signalling the role that commodity derivatives speculation is alleged to have played in causing the crisis, the author challenges the tendency to portray law as the solution to world hunger. The main argument of the book—that law actively contributes to the persistence of hunger in the world—is set out, and the arguments of each chapter are presented. The introduction concludes with an overview of existing scholarship that has contributed to the author’s thinking on the relationship between hunger and the legal system, including the work of Amartya Sen, Karl Marx, Institutionalist scholarship, and the work of Karl Polanyi.

Détente and Re-forming the World

Worldview ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Marshall Shulman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

We need now to make a structural change in our way of thinking about U.S.-Soviet relations. Our habit since World War II has been to move back and forth between) simplified extremes—to vacillate between overly sanguine expectations in which the inevitable difficulties in relations with the USSR are minimized and overly pessimistic and emotional positions in which the elements of change in the relationship are neglected. It is hard for public opinion in this country, perhaps in any country, to face up to emotionally unsatisfying ambiguities.

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Meat without Animals: Outcast Objects and the Improvement of London

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Geier
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Covers the long history of the Smithfield animal market and legal reform in London. Shows the relationship of civic improvement tropes, including animal rights, to animal erasure in the form of new foodstuffs from distant meat production sites. The reduction of lives to commodities also informed public abasement of the butchers.

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