Why is the complaints procedure still lacking in Italy? The difficult pathway towards a more transparent, inclusive and effective disciplinary system

A Unified Spatial Model of Congress

10.1093/oso/9780190865580.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Justin Buchler

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Spatial Model ◽

Party Leader ◽

Roll Call ◽

Legislative Elections ◽

Collective Action Problem ◽

Party Leaders ◽

Legislative Session ◽

Disciplinary System ◽

Sincere Voting

This chapter presents a unified model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting, built around a party leadership election. First, a legislative caucus selects a party leader who campaigns based on a platform of a disciplinary system. Once elected, that leader runs the legislative session, in which roll call votes occur. Then elections occur, and incumbents face re-election with the positions they incrementally adopted. When the caucus is ideologically homogeneous, electorally diverse, and policy motivated, members will elect a leader who solves the collective action problem of sincere voting with “preference-preserving influence.” That leader will threaten to punish legislators who bow to electoral pressure to vote as centrists. Consequently, legislators vote sincerely as extremists and get slightly lower vote shares, but they offset that lost utility with policy gains that they couldn’t have gotten without party influence. Party leaders will rarely pressure legislators to vote insincerely.

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The Prisoner of Gender: Panopticon, Persuasion, and Surveillance of Women in Kavita Kané’s Menaka’s Choice

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series ◽

10.31178/ubr.10.2.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 89-101

Author(s):

Meenakshi Meenakshi ◽

Nagendra Kumar

Keyword(s):

Sexual Desire ◽

Female Body ◽

Central Position ◽

The Novel ◽

Women's Bodies ◽

Feminist Thought ◽

The Individual ◽

Disciplinary System

In the mythology-inspired novel Menaka’s Choice (2016), Kavita Kané discovers that the female body is continuously perceived both as an object of sexual desire and as an individual being by disrupting the conventional understanding of Apsara Menaka. Using Foucault’s concept of docile bodies and organic individuality the paper studies how power, in the form of ‘system’, imposes docility on women’s bodies. The paper weaves the potential for feminist thought as the novel rediscovers the recondite experiences that have been shrouded for centuries by giving central position to silent agents of Hindu mythology. Eventually, it attempts to analyse the act of seduction from the context of gender and how the individual tries to resist that disciplinary system.

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Graduate education for multi-disciplinary system design and management

Synthesiology ◽

10.5571/synth.3.112 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 112-126

Author(s):

Masatoshi KATAOKA ◽

Shouki YATSUSHIRO ◽

Shouhei YAMAMURA ◽

Masato TANAKA

Keyword(s):

System Design ◽

Graduate Education ◽

Disciplinary System

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The Underside of the Law: Judicial Review and the Prison Disciplinary System

Current Legal Problems ◽

10.1093/clp/46.part_2.23 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 46 (Part 2) ◽

pp. 23-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Loughlin

Keyword(s):

Judicial Review ◽

The Law ◽

Disciplinary System

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The Path Selection of the Chinese Judges’ Disciplinary System Reform

East Asian Policy ◽

10.1142/s1793930518000429 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (04) ◽

pp. 116-125

Author(s):

Dejia LI

Keyword(s):

Path Selection ◽

Judicial Reform ◽

System Reform ◽

Disciplinary Power ◽

Disciplinary System ◽

Disciplinary Committee ◽

Selection Of

The reform of the judicial disciplinary system is an important part of China’s judicial reform. The purpose of the Disciplinary Committee for Judges and Prosecutors is to re-establish the judicial disciplinary system, including specific procedures, such as producing evidence, making arguments and statements, to protect the professional rights of judicial personnel. This article examines the main models of the extraterritorial judicial disciplinary system, and analyses the trend and characteristics of current judges’ disciplinary system reform. The reform’s largest problem lies in the positioning of the judges’ disciplinary committee and the distribution of judge’s disciplinary power which need to be clearly defined.

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Lawyer disciplinary processes: an empirical study of solicitors’ misconduct cases in England and Wales in 2015

Legal Studies ◽

10.1017/lst.2018.45 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 455-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrew Boon ◽

Avis Whyte

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Legal Services ◽

England And Wales ◽

The Future ◽

Regulatory Institutions ◽

Disciplinary System ◽

The Impact ◽

Practice Regulation

AbstractThe Legal Services Act 2007 effected major changes in the disciplinary system for solicitors in England and Wales. Both the practice regulator, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and a disciplinary body, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, were reconstituted as independent bodies and given new powers. Our concern is the impact of the Act on the disciplinary system for solicitors. Examination of this issue involves consideration of changes to regulatory institutions and the mechanics of practice regulation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, empirical evidence drawn from disciplinary cases handled by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2015 is used to explore potentially different conceptions of discipline informing the work of the regulatory institutions. The conclusion considers the implications of our findings for the future of the professional disciplinary system.

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The Fabric of Control: Slavery in Antebellum Southern Textile Mills

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3114772 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 471-490 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Randall M. Miller

Keyword(s):

Work Force ◽

Textile Mill ◽

Textile Mills ◽

Poor Whites ◽

Industrial Systems ◽

Agricultural Work ◽

Human Aspects ◽

The American South ◽

Marginal Improvement ◽

Disciplinary System

The factory system in one of its earliest forms—the textile mill—made limited strides in the American South during the closing decades of the slave era. While bondsmen were put to work in mills almost from the beginning, the problem of adapting an agricultural work force to the factory system was one that had to be solved simultaneously with the development of the factory system itself. Since then, historians have wondered whether the use of slaves in early industry was an intensification of the human aspects of bondage or whether it represented a marginal improvement in their physical and spiritual welfare. Professor Miller offers no answer to these questions, nor to those of how widespread or how successful was the use of slaves as factory operatives. He demonstrates, however, that apart from the fact that bondsmen took to factory work more readily than poor whites, the problems to be solved by managers, before a successful degree of efficiency could be achieved, were common to all new industrial systems; clearly, the development of an intelligent disciplinary system, enlightened motivation, and good working conditions were as important in using slaves as in using free labor.

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