1325 + 17 = ?: Filling in the Blanks of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Kimberly Theidon
This chapter focuses on the absence of certain marginal groups from the United Nations’ Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and suggests correctives to those exclusions. The chapter ...
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A “Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship”?: Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life
Reinhard Mehring
Carl Schmitt positioned his constitutional theory in the context of a “political theology” and referred to himself repeatedly as a Catholic. Schmitt scholarship has long pursued this ...
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“A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil”: The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt
Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons
This handbook engages with the critical ordering of Schmitt’s writings, investing in the proper contextualization of his polycentric thought. More important than whether Schmitt’s ...
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“A Force for Good”?: Paradoxes of Swedish Military Activism
Lisbeth Aggestam and Adrian Hyde-Price
This chapter examines the politics of Swedish military activism and the paradoxes they involve. Since the end of the Cold War, Sweden has been involved a range of international military ...
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“A Very British Institution”: The Intelligence and Security Committee and Intelligence Accountability in the United Kingdom
Mark Phythian
This article discusses Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) and intelligence accountability in the United Kingdom. It discusses the origins of intelligence oversight in the United ...
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Aaron Wildavsky, The Politics of the Budgetary Process
Joachim Wehner
This chapter comments on Aaron Wildavsky’s seminal work, The Politics of the Budgetary Process, an in-depth look at the norms and rules of budgeting in the United States and the stable ...
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About Institutions, Mainly, but not Exclusively, Political
Jean Blondel
This article discusses the concept of institution by examining the components of an institution and the way in which institutionalization can increase or decrease. It considers the place ...
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The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World: Evidence from Africa
Clionadh Raleigh
The debate concerning how water access, availability, and change will impact conflict is bolstered by growing evidence that some influence exists, however inconsistent. Clear conclusions ...
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Academia versus Activism
Dennis Altman
This chapter was inspired by reading a number of contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics and asks three interconnected questions: How can one best ...
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Academic Research and the Intelligence Community: some reflections
Jonathan Evans
In this chapter, writing as a retired intelligence officer who worked for much of my career on terrorist issues, I consider how attitudes to academic work on terrorism have developed, from ...
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Access to Intermediate Appellate Courts
Donald R. Songer and Susan B. Haire
The formal organization of court systems and jurisdictional rules established by legislatures often determine which litigants will have their cases reviewed by an appellate court. While ...
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Accountability and Ambiguity
Johan P. Olsen
Ambiguity is intrinsic to life. Yet, mainstream accountability theory reduces its area of application by not taking ambiguity seriously. The literature treats too many aspects as exogenous ...
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Accountability and Blame–Avoidance
Christopher Hood
This chapter advances three claims. First, it argues that the concepts of accountability and blame-avoidance have much in common and can be understood as mirror-image concepts for the ...
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Accountability and Citizen Participation
Bodil Damgaard and Jenny M. Lewis
This chapter provides an analytical framework aimed at measuring citizen participation in public accountability processes beyond the fundamental mechanism of parliamentary elections. The ...
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Accountability and Constitutional Law
Carol Harlow
This chapter argues that, although accountability is a term well understood in constitutional law, it is not a central term of art within the discipline. It explores the public law origins ...
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Accountability and Democracy
Mark E. Warren
Democracy, rule of the people, is comprised of complex webs of accountabilities between people and those who use power to govern on their behalf. Democratic accountability is comprised of ...
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Accountability and Multi-Level Governance
Yannis Papadopoulos
This chapter first presents the major characteristics of multi-level governance and gives examples thereof from the European and the transnational level. It then identifies a number of ...
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Accountability and New Public Management
Per Lægreid
This chapter links the rise of public accountability to the wave of New Public Management (NPM) reforms. It argues that the relationship between increased managerial accountability and ...
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Accountability and Principal–Agent Theory
Sean Gailmard
Principal-agent theory encapsulates a tradition of rational choice modeling in which some actor(s)—the principal(s)—uses whatever actions are available to provide incentives for some other ...
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