The paper focuses on the role of ethnocultural public associations, which are civil society institutions preserving ethnic identity. authors investigate associations in culture and language, report collaboration these with population youth. place special emphasis specific practices interaction between organizations authorities field national policy, maintenance identity formation an integrated ...

Problem statement. The article is aimed at determining the characteristics of specialty in study subjects provided by educational program. purpose to highlight main problems learning related process mastering profession and its branches. As quite wide due a set problems, teachers students do not have necessary materials. Training future specialists changing modern conditions, especially with ex...

This paper evaluates existing measures of political regimes and political freedom with respect to their desirability as indicators of political capabilities. It argues that the focus of desirable measures should be on the political and civil institutions that affect individuals’ opportunities to pursue their goals (their capabilities). Attempts to capture “actual” capabilities are misleading si...

This commentary explores the relationship among the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision; the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, in its application of CRIPA (the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Patients Act); and the application of both CRIPA and Olmstead to the question of individuals hospitalized in state mental institutions following commitment from criminal courts. Using O...

Poland remains one of the success stories among the post-Socialist transitional democracies. Since 1989, the country has made steady progress on a range of issues relating to democratic institutions, civil society, and integration with the established democracies of Western Europe. Nevertheless, some important challenges remain. State regulation of the media is still a concern, as are problems ...

Empirically, justice might be immanently holistic—with procedural, distributive, restorative, and social justice positively correlated. Restorative justice may be about creating spaces where the various imperfectly correlated facets of holistic justice might cohere. State institutions of justice (such as criminal courts) with deeply embedded traditions of narrowing the meaning of justice (to pr...

This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do not need to have persistent effects on long term economic outcomes. New micro-level studies are ambiguous about the impact of civil war for welfa...