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Motivating Environmental Action in a Pluralistic Regulatory Environment: An Experimental Study of Framing, Crowding Out, and Institutional Effects in the Context of Recycling Policies

submitted by papidapi 38 minutes ago

In designing a recycling policy, the regulator must choose among multiple instruments. Our study seeks to address the linkages between the choice of regulatory instruments and institutional framewo...

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Gendered Paths to Legal Citizenship: The Case of Latin-American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona

submitted by DaleAmar 38 minutes ago

In this paper we seek to contribute to a greater understanding of legal citizenship by exploring the gendered experiences of Latin-American-origin immigrants in the greater Phoenix metropolitan are...

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Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914

submitted by rebeccajefferson 38 minutes ago

Colonial legal histories of indigeneity and British-Indian migration have not often been placed in conversation with one another. This article pursues such a project by tracing indigeneity as a spe...

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Ignorance in Bliss: Modeling Knowledge of Rights in Marriage and Cohabitation

submitted by wf1321 38 minutes ago

We live our lives against an extensive backdrop of legal rights and responsibilities, yet a growing number of studies indicates low levels of public legal literacy. In the context of opposite-sex c...

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Using Systems Theory to Study Legal Pluralism: What Could Be Gained?

submitted by DarMisael 38 minutes ago

This article examines the ability of modern systems theory to provide a foundation for understanding the problematic notion of legal pluralism, and to the ability of scholars to apply that understa...

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Alfred Marshall's Reported Birthplace: Evidence from the Censuses

submitted by robotlee 1 day ago

Ronald Coase posed the question, Did Alfred Marshall know where he was born? Coase conjectured that Marshall's changing place of birth as reported in the 1881 and 1891 censuses was due to his vague...

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How Keynesian Economics Came to China

submitted by gom 1 day ago

The central ideas of Keynes's General Theory were introduced into China soon after its publication in 1936. Yao Qingsan, who had studied in France, made the first known presentation. Numerous perso...

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Beyond Altruism? Economics and the Minimization of Unselfish Behavior, 1975-93

submitted by rozon 1 day ago

This article provides a historical account of the developments of research into seemingly unselfish behavior between 1975 and 1993. I shall first argue that the triumph of the self-interest model i...

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Overview of: “Assessing the Earned Discharge Pilot Project: The Importance of Context, Capacity, and Content”

submitted by tryitnoow 2 days ago

Research Largely as a result of punitive measures passed in the 1980s and 1990s, prison and parole populations have soared across the United States. California's policies are reflective of these te...

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Overview of: “Crime Place and Pollution: Expanding Crime Reduction Options Through a Regulatory Approach”

submitted by gillesb12 2 days ago

Crime reduction policy has focused almost exclusively on offenders. Recent studies and evaluations show that expanding our policy portfolio to include places may be highly productive. We show that ...

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Overview of: “Getting the Law Involved a Quasi-Experiment in Early Intervention Involving Collaboration Between Schools and the District Attorney's Office”

submitted by SamAid 2 days ago

Precursors to serious and chronic delinquency often emerge in childhood, stimulating calls for early interventions. Most intervention efforts rely solely on social service programs—often to the e...

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Overview of: “The Impact of Drug Market Pulling Levers Policing on Neighborhood Violence: An Evaluation of the High Point Drug Market Intervention”

submitted by poezdka 2 days ago

Pulling levers policing draws upon the focused deterrence framework, which has shown considerable promise when directed at youth, gun, and gang offenders. However, much less is known about the viab...

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British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast, c.1560–1713

submitted by riemirb 2 days ago

This article explores British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast in the long seventeenth century. This is a period characterized by conflict, when trade between Britain and France wa...

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Mammy at MacClenny, Jezebel in Jacksonville: Southern Fever Nursing in History and Memory

submitted by PerryLoui 3 days ago

This article examines the history and memory of American Red Cross nursing during the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888. Although public health officials in the postemancipation South empl...

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On the Importance of Affirmative Action: Labor Liberals and the Recasting of "Contract Unionism"

submitted by Uplimmima 3 days ago

This issue's Up For Debate features Dennis Deslippe's revisionist argument about labor's response to affirmative action. Contrary both to those scholars who have fixed the unions as a primary obsta...

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