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Università della Svizzera italiana

The construction of norms : examinations of norms for visual data practices in mediated public discourses

Venema, Rebecca ; Lobinger, Katharina (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM010.

Social norms as concepts of legitimate and appropriate action are basic elements of social coordination and essentially “communication phenomena” (Rimal & Lapinski, 2015, Lapinski & Rimal, 2005). They are negotiated, shaped, understood, learned, and maintained through communication, with mediated public discourses as central forums for the communication and negotiation of norms. Despite...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Swiss Constitution and a weak-form unconstitutional amendment doctrine?

Dixon, Rosalind ; Uhlmann, Felix

In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2018, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 54-74

Université de Fribourg

Governance, bureaucratic rents, and well-being differentials across US states

Luechinger, Simon ; Schelker, Mark ; Stutzer, Alois

In: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, vol. 66, no. 2, p. 443-464

We analyse the influence of institutional restrictions on bureaucratic rents. As a measure for these rents, we propose subjective well-being differentials between workers in the public administration and workers in other industries. Based on data for the US states, we estimate the extent to which institutional efforts to strengthen bureaucratic accountability affect differences in well-being....

Université de Fribourg

Sovereign States and their International Institutional Order : Carrying Forward Dworkin's Work on the Political Legitimacy of International Law

Besson, Samantha

In: Jus Cogens: a critical journal of philosophy of law and politics (online), 2020, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 1-28

International law’s legitimacy has come under serious attack lately, including, and maybe even more so, in regimes considered democratic. Reading Dworkin’s New Philosophy for International Law in the current context is a timely reminder of the centrality of the political legitimacy of international law. Interestingly, indeed, his account does not succumb to the (however progressive)...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Types and functions of intertextual references in the Russian State Duma

Weiss, Daniel

In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2016, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 184-214