The article studies how a discursive contestation among the EU institutions (the European Commission, Parliament, and Council of Union) concept "strategic sovereignty" ("strategic autonomy") affects institutional balance them. Institutional is dynamic process in which challenge each other's authority. This conceptualized terms neo-institutionalism as coordinative discourse, forms, challenges ju...

This paper summarising ‘procedural justice’ approaches to policing, contrasting these to the more politically dominant discourse about policing as crime control. It argues that public trust in policing is needed partly because this may result in public cooperation with justice, but more importantly because public trust in justice builds institutional legitimacy and thus public compliance with t...

In Chapters 3 and 4 I portrayed the organisation of turn, sequence and repair in different L2 classroom contexts. In this chapter the perspective broadens as I describe the overall organisation of L2 classroom interaction. I introduce the concept of the rational design of institutional interaction and identify the institutional goal as well as three interactional properties which derive directl...

The traditional view that excise taxes are regressive has been challenged. I document the history of the term regressive tax, show that traditional definitions have always found cigarette taxes to be regressive, and illustrate the implications of the greater price responsiveness observed among the poor. I explain the different definitions of tax burden: accounting, welfare-based willingness to ...

Exploring an alternative way to approach famine relief interventions, this paper draws on the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault and David Keen's recent work on south-west Sudan. It suggests that different discourses on 'famine' can lead to the dominance of certain kinds of institutional practices, and the prioritisation of special kinds of knowledge, at the expense of other modes of un...

Semantic couplets in the Nahuatl language can function as discourse markers that have the pragmatic function of building identities among speech communities. The subsistence of these linguistic structures in present day institutional discourses points to similarities, not only in social, religious but also in linguistic practices of speech communities that are distant in time. Semantic couplets...