Gradual Change and Deconcentration of Presidential Powers in Nineteenth Century Chile: Ideas, Networks, and Institutional Ambiguity

Polity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-617
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Arellano-González ◽  
Christopher A. Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Institutional Ambiguity

scholarly journals The evaluation of old Serbian art during the formation of Serbian art history

Zograf ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 153-163
Author(s):  
Predrag Dragojevic
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Medieval Art

The paper sheds light on the development of the theoretical and methodological layer in Serbian texts about the art created during the nineteenth century and recognises the gradual change in the system of values, which was the precondition for the interpretation of medieval art.

Abortion Laws: Comparative and Feminist Perspectives in Australia, England and the United States

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Petersen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Reproductive Freedom ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Abortion Laws ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Moral Questions

In this article I examine the paradoxical nature of abortion developments in three jurisdictions and find that reproductive freedom is a more elusive goal in the United States where abortion has been elevated to a qualified right, than in England or Victoria where nineteenth century criminal statutes have been modified but not repealed. Abortion is now a moral scapegoat in the United States and it is difficult to predict if it will ever be resolved. Changes to law in the other two jurisdictions were less extreme and were shaped by a gradual change in attitudes towards abortion. Nevertheless, the laws in all three jurisdictions deny women full reproductive freedom and are founded on the assumption that women are not responsible moral beings. The repeal of all laws concerning abortion would be a stepping stone to re-framing moral questions about abortion and developing a distinctive feminine morality which attends to the needs of women.

scholarly journals Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Shah ◽  
Christopher J Napier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Corporate Scandals ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Company Directors ◽  
Competing Models

Why do we use the term ‘corporate governance’ rather than ‘corporate direction’? Early British joint stock companies were normally managed by a single ‘governor’. The ‘court of governors’ or ‘board of directors’ emerged slowly as the ruling body for companies. By the nineteenth century, however, companies were typically run by directors while not-for-profit entities such as hospitals, schools and charitable bodies had governors. The nineteenth century saw steady refinement of the roles of company directors, often in response to corporate scandals, with a gradual change from the notion of the director as a ‘representative shareholder’ to the directors being seen collectively as ‘representatives of the shareholders’. Governors in not-for-profit entities, however, were regarded as having broader responsibilities. The term ‘governance’ itself suggests that corporate boards should be studied as ‘political’ entities rather than merely through economic lenses such as agency theory.

From regulationism to the ‘Scandinavian Sonderweg’: legislating to prevent venereal diseases in Denmark during the long nineteenth century

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
IDA BLOM
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Venereal Diseases ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Law

In this article I discuss the dilemma between coercion and respect for civil liberties that characterized policies for the prevention of venereal diseases during the nineteenth century. Placing Danish legislation in an international perspective, the gradual change from control of prostitution to the so-called Scandinavian Sonderweg is analysed. Special emphasis is given to parliamentary discussions on the law of 1906, with a view to disentangling the survival of traditional attitudes to sexual morality from burgeoning conceptions of universal welfare policies.

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