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Regulatory Arbitrage in Relation to International Human Rights

Journal Article
Minhat, M., Abdullah, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2019)
Regulatory Arbitrage in Relation to International Human Rights. Journal of Human Rights, 18(5), 579-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2019.1647097
The adoption of the United Nations (UN) Charter in 1945 marked the legalization of international human rights. Despite the legalized status of human rights, their violation by...

Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse

Book
M. Kranert, & G. Horan (Eds.), (2018)
Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80
This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cut...

Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP

Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2018)
Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP. Aptum: Journal of Language Criticism and Language Culture, 14(1), 61-77
Seit dem Erstarken neuer rechter Parteien in Europa und der Wahl Donald Trumps zum 45. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten dominiert Populismus als politischer Kampfbegriff de...

Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century.

Presentation / Conference
Kranert, M. (2017, March)
Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century. Presented at Research Group Meeting - Language, Ideology and Power (Lancaster University), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
No abstract available.

Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’

Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis)
University College London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/402527
This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a disco...

Review of Piotr Cap & Urszula Okulska (eds). (2013)Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice

Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2016)
Review of Piotr Cap & Urszula Okulska (eds). (2013)Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice. Journal of Language and Politics, 15(4), 500-503. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.15.4.08kra
Piotr Cap & Urszula Okulska (eds). (2013)Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice

Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus

Book Chapter
Dodd, L. (2016)
Kinship, conflict and unity among Roman elites in post-Roman Gaul: The contrasting experiences of Caesarius and Avitus. In Official power and local elites in the Roman provinces, 168-187. Taylor & Francis
The 5th century saw the end of Roman imperial power in the West. Academic debate continues about whether the Empire collapsed or transformed and survived in the form of the ba...

Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan

Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2014)
Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan. In Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, (350-367). Cambridge University Press
Introduction The subject of Buddhism and constitutionalism, or more specifically constitutions, presents us with a series of questions and challenges. As the other essays in t...

F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?

Journal Article
Macfarlane, L. B. (2014)
F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?. Edinburgh Law Review, 18, 284-289. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2014.0214
Notwithstanding extensive media coverage and commentary, the recent judgment of the High Court Family Division in F v F1 is not one that tells us very much about children’s ri...

Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution

Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2013)
Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution. In A. K. Thiruvengadam, V. Raghavan, & S. Khilnani (Eds.), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia (116-144). Oxford University Press
This chapter investigates Bhutan's constitutional history up to the 2008 Constitution. It specifically reflects on the relationship between Buddhism, the new Constitution, and...