Nationalist Mobilization, Ethno-Religious Contention, and Legal Innovation in a Stateless Nation: Explaining Catalonia’s 2009 “Law on Centers of Worship”

Explaining the Intensity of Ethno-Nationalist Contention

The claims-making behavior of ethnopolitical communities spans three primary forms—electoral party politics, social movement protest behavior, and violent rebellion. In this study we posit that the three forms constitute a scale of increasingly contentious activity; where politically feasible, communities that give rise to the most intense forms of political behavior will also tend to be engage...

Gender and Nation-Building: Family Law as Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles and Essays

Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties.

It is well-documented that Muslims experience economic disadvantages in Western European labor markets. However, few studies comprehensively test individual-level explanations for the Muslim employment gap. Using data from the European Social Survey, this research note briefly examines the role of individual-level differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in mediating employment differences. ...

A Review on "Civil Law in Current Legal System"

بحث تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، از مباحثی است که درحال حاضر محافل علمی را بیش از پیش به خود مشغول کرده؛ و یکی از مباحث مهم تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، بررسی و تشخیص«نسخ ضمنی» مصوبات است. در این مقاله به گوشه‌هایی از مبحث نسخ (آن هم نه نسخ و تغییرات ضمنی، بلکه نسخ و تغییرات صریح)، اکتفا می‌شود. شاید تصور شود که نسخ، اصلاح و الحاق صریح معلوم است و نیازی به بیان آن نیست، اتفاقاً در این تحقیق، دایرة بحث، بیش...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...