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Judges, Politics and Democracy: A Discursive Analysis of the Judicial Elite during the Weimar Republic and post-WWII Germany

2014

Die personelle Kontinuität innerhalb der Justiz und der juristischen Eliten über die drei Regimewechsel hinaus, die Deutschland in der ersten Hälfte des Jahrhunderts erlebte, wurde bereits breit erforscht. Um die Entwicklung dieser Eliten in der Weimarer Republik und der frühen Nachkriegszeit zu analysieren, geht deshalb der vorliegende Beitrag nicht von den Personen, sondern von den Diskursen aus. Aus den damaligen leidenschaftlichen Debatten um die Justiz und insbesondere den Richter sticht eine zentrale, wiederkehrende Frage hervor: sollte der Übergang zur Demokratie zu einer Neubestimmung der Stellung, Funktion und Arbeit des Richters führen, und wenn ja in welchem Sinne? In der Weimare…

Les partis politiques en Grande-Bretagne

2013

National audience; La vie politique en Grande-Bretagne est marquée par l’une des histoires les plus riches et anciennes d’Europe, mais son originalité reste largement méconnue – surtout par le public francophone, qui la réduit trop souvent à l’affrontement des deux grands partis dominants : Labour et Tories.D’où le présent ouvrage qui analyse l’ensemble des partis politiques, en soulignant la force des changements intervenus récemment en Grande-Bretagne. Fondé sur une définition précise du parti politique, il tient compte des multiples dimensions des organisations partisanes (idéologie-valeurs, ressources, soutiens). Il insiste aussi sur la modernisation des grands partis majoritaires (New …

LE ROI CONGO EN SICILE: UNE PISTE DE LECTURE

2010

This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens’ and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment…

2017

For the very first time in EU history, the 2014 EP elections provided citizens with the opportunity to influence the nomination of the Commission President by casting a vote for the main Europarties’ ‘lead candidates’. By subjecting the position of the Commission President to an open political contest, many experts have formulated the expectation that heightened political competition would strengthen the weak electoral connection between EU citizens and EU legislators, which some consider a root cause for the EU’s lack of public support. In particular, this contest was on display in the so-called ‘Eurovision Debate’, a televised debate between the main contenders for the Commission Presiden…

EUIPO Boards of Appeal in the Light of the Principle of Fair Trial

2022

The EUIPO’s Boards of Appeal are called upon to decide on appeals against decisions by the bodies of ‘first instance’. However, their judicial function has always been denied. Conversely, the essay tends to place the Boards of Appeal of the EUIPO in any case within the concept of ‘court’, as defined by the ECtHR, within the framework of Article 6 ECtHR, because it assesses their independence, impartiality, and in general the guarantees required by the ‘fair trial’, until concluding that it is a paradigmatic model in the overall administration and judicial system. EUIPO Boards of Appeal, European Court of Human Rights, Court of Justice of the Eurpean Union, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, …

When texts become action. The institutional circuit of early childhood intervention

2017

Building on ideals of social cohesion, equality of opportunities and socio-economic benefits, there has been an increasing awareness in Norway of kindergarten employees’ responsibility to initiate ...

Symmetry and equality: Bringing Rancière into the classroom

2018

Jacques Rancière’s sophisticated critique of critical theory is the first step in his call for a renewal of a theory of emancipation. In the first part of the article, the authors outline this critique. Rancière combines pedagogy, art and policy in his attempt to develop a new understanding of equality and emancipation. The authors try as conscientiously as possible to present this argument in the second part of the article. Social and cultural inequalities are increasing in Western societies and have become inconspicuous in schools, and it is against this backdrop that a theory of equality and emancipation is important in regard to early childhood. How can equality be unfolded and interpre…

Unravelling conceptualizations of (in)equality in early childhood education and care system

2018

Early childhood education’s role in increasing equality in society has been highlighted by international organizations. However, it is unclear what is meant by the concept of equality in different situations, as the meaning fluctuates and reflects the cultural political contexts in which it is embedded. In this paper, we analyse the equality discourses of local early childhood education and care (ECEC) policymakers in Finland, drawing on different conceptualizations of equality and social justice. In doing so, we show that the way in which equality is conceptualized differs – along with the suggested remedies – depending on whether the subjects of equality are adults, children at the border…

Voices heard and lessons learnt : Exploring multiple knowledges and local participation in a community-based integrated early childhood development p…

2019

Abstract Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) communitybased Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It explores the critical relationship established between a range of stakeholders involved in this project as reflected on by two community activists working together in the area of early childhood in the province for thirty years. This article highlights the importance of situating any community development initiati…

Documenting Napping: The Agentic Force of Documents and Human Action

2015

The article examines the question of the agentic force of documents in institutional practices and proposes a conceptual model of the agentic relation between documentation and human actors. For this aim, it presents an empirical case study of Finnish early childhood education and care. The study deals with individual education plans (IEPs), which are an example of child documentation that aims at an individualised and participatory pedagogy. The analytical focus is on a single topic of an IEP, the child’s afternoon naps, and how these are negotiated in the three-party encounter between a parent, a practitioner and the IEP document. The theoretical framework draws on the theories of documen…