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Social Sciences archive for 2013

Special Issue of Children Australia focuses on International Child and Family Law

Katie Laker | 16 Dec 2013

Post written by Nicki Taylor This Special Issue of Children Australia focuses on international child and family law topics. It includes nine high-quality articles from authors spanning three different countries – Australia, New Zealand and England.…


Has the welfare state been reinvented?

Katie Laker | 5 Dec 2013

Post written by H.J.M. Fenger European welfare states have a tradition in compensating for social risks. But across Europe, remarkable transformations may be observed that shift the focus from a needs/rights based compensatory approach towards a more individualistic ‘social risk management’ approach to welfare.…


2014: A Big Year for Law and Society Scholarship

Rebecca O'Rourke | 4 Dec 2013

2014 marks 50 years of the Law and Society Association, the largest society for socio-legal scholarship. Attendance of the Association’s annual conference has grown from less than 100 scholars in the 1960s to more than 2000 in recent years, demonstrating the massive growth in this subject area.…


Is the Second Language Acquisition discipline disintegrating?

Katie Laker | 3 Dec 2013

Post written by Jan H. Hulstijn, based on an article in Language Teaching The second language acquisition (SLA) field is characterized by a wide variety of issues and theoretical perspectives.…


Language-specific noun bias: evidence from bilingual children

Katie Laker | 28 Nov 2013

Post written by Dr. Lei Xuan and Dr. Christine Dollaghan based on an article in Journal of Child Language Our research addressed questions about the kinds of words that appear in the early vocabularies of bilingual children.  Evidence from some languages, including English, has shown that young children acquire words for people and things before words that label actions and attributes or words that have grammatical functions.…


What is the Most Influential History Journal?

David Austin Walsh | 27 Nov 2013

What is the most influential historical journal published in English? The answer, according to Google Scholar, is The Journal of Economic History.…


Prison Health Discharge Planning – Evidence of an Integrated Care Pathway or the End of the Road?

Katie Laker | 26 Nov 2013

Post written by Wendy Dyer and Paul Biddle Improvements in offender healthcare are key to the current UK Government’s reform of the criminal justice system and the aims of reducing reoffending and protecting the public.…


Elinor Ostrom memorial issue

Katie Laker | 15 Nov 2013

Journal of Institutional Economics – Elinor Ostrom memorial issue Extract from the Editorial of issue 9/4 of Journal of Institutional Economics written by Geoffrey M.…


What does it mean to be un-American?

Becky Roberts | 30 Oct 2013

We are pleased to announce the publication of the “Un-America” Special issue of of Journal of American Studies. As an introduction to the topic of Un-Americanism, Dr George Lewis, Guest Editor of the Special Issue examines the topic and asks what un-Americanism is and whether it is still a relevant term today.…


From Nudging to Budging: Behavioural economic-informed regulation of the supply side

Katie Laker | 14 Oct 2013

Many politicians and policy makers in several countries have embraced the concept of ‘nudging’ in shaping policy and influencing citizens’ behaviour. Adam Oliver argues that we should refrain from limiting behavioural economic policy to nudge-style antiregulatory demand-side interventions.…


Ethics and force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike

Mona Johnson | 10 Oct 2013

Health Professionals Who Participate in Force-feeding Prisoners on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay Should Lose Professional Licenses Force-feeding Violates Medical Ethics and Amounts to Torture   Physicians and other licensed health professionals are force-feeding hunger strikers held prisoner at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba.…


Is China ‘Dying for Development’? An examination of pollution and illness

Becky Roberts | 30 Sep 2013

The June issue of The China Quarterly features a fascinating selection of articles entitled ‘Dying for Development’. Expert in Human Geography in China at Oxford University, Anna Lora-Wainwright looks at the issues surrounding development that have arisen from China’s rapid growth in recent years.…


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