Public pressure - An effective force II

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Janet Moss
Keyword(s):  
Effective Force ◽  
Public Pressure

Public pressure - An effective force I

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Janet Moss
Keyword(s):  
Effective Force ◽  
Public Pressure

Mobilizing Public and Legislative Hostility against NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Kay ◽  
R. L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Treaty Negotiations ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Additional Labor

This chapter examines how activists used outsider strategies and mobilized public pressure to increase legislative opposition to NAFTA during the substantive treaty negotiations that followed passage of fast-track reauthorization. It focuses on activists’ mobilization of a mass movement of NAFTA opponents during the year and a half of NAFTA’s substantive negotiations beginning in June 1991 until President Bush signed the agreement in December 1992. While the AFL-CIO and some environmentalists concentrated on insider strategies, labor unions and the majority of environmental organizations created a strong anti-NAFTA grassroots coalition and mobilized; they held local protests and rallies, wrote press releases, held forums with community groups and local politicians, and appeared in media outlets in over one hundred cities. The chapter also reveals how activists’ pressure led to the negotiation of additional labor and environmental side agreements.

Effective force coarse-graining

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanting Wang ◽  
W. G. Noid ◽  
Pu Liu ◽  
Gregory A. Voth
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Graining ◽  
Effective Force

Social movements, reframing investment relations, and enhancing the application of human rights norms in international investment law

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Moshe Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Investment Law ◽  
Investment Arbitration ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Investment Law

Abstract The recent moderate trend to increasingly apply human rights law in investment awards is accompanied by certain new investment treaties which include expressed human rights provisions. An analysis of recent investment awards indicates that though there are some ‘winds of change’ in this field, it is equally noticeable that human rights law is far from being mainstreamed in international investment law. Investment arbitration procedural law is also undergoing a process of change, and the new procedural rules tend to enhance public elements in the investment arbitral system. This study is aimed at explaining these recent legal changes, highlighting the role of social movements in reframing investment relations as well as increasing public pressure to apply human rights law. These framing changes concern broadening the frame of investment arbitration (beyond the foreign investor–host state dyad), reversing the perceived balance of power between investors and host states, and zooming-in on local individuals and communities residing in host states. The discussion on factors impeding legal change in this field emphasizes the role of the private legal culture prevalent in the investment arbitration system, which is reflected and reinforced by certain resilient socio-legal frames. Informed by this analysis, the study suggests some legal mechanisms which can mitigate the inter-partes frame, and increase the application of human rights law in investment arbitration; inter alia, rigorous transparency rules that are likely to facilitate increased public pressure on tribunals and increase the participation of social movements representing local actors in arbitral processes.

Public Pressure and Corporate Tax Behavior

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Dyreng ◽  
Jeffrey L. Hoopes ◽  
Jaron H. Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Public Pressure

Effective force constant in crystals

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1671-1673 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.N. Ram ◽  
Bal K. Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Force Constant ◽  
Effective Force

scholarly journals The Politics of Scarcity: Public Pressure and Political Response in India.

1964 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Richard L. Park ◽  
Myron Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Political Response ◽  
Public Pressure

scholarly journals Public Pressure, Temptation of Power and Unconstitutional Actions in the War Against Terrorism in Kenya: Suggesting a Link

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Cecil Yongo
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
The Government

The reaction of the government in Kenya, like many other governments around the world, to terrorist attacks has generally been to strengthen existing laws and enact novel laws, especially those that aid the state’s intelligence-gathering capabilities, along with those that are punitive. In some cases, even in Kenya, States have taken, or have attempted to take, extra-Constitutional and unconstitutional actions. This is the approach that this paper characterises as arising from ‘temptation of power’, and in that regard, this interdisciplinary paper is—through an analysis of scholarship in law, sociology and information/ communication—an attempt to investigate the origin, results and wisdom of such an approach in the war against terror, its effect on the rule of law and minority rights in society; and propose why and how it can be avoided.

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