Corruption experiences and attitudes to political,interpersonal, and domestic violence

It is understood that corruption can change the incentives to engage in political violence. However, the scope for corruption to change attitudes toward the permissibility of violence has received less attention. Drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we argue that experiences of corruption in the social environment are likely to shape individual attitudes toward violent behavior. Using Afrobarometer data, we document a statistically significant and sizable relationship between an individual's experience of paying bribes and their attitudes to political, interpersonal, and domestic violence. These relationships are evident, and not significantly different, for men and women and are robust to the inclusion of variables capturing the local incidence of corruption, local norms regarding violence, and a proxy for the local incidence of violence with the community. Corruption is associated with permissive attitudes to violence even after controlling for the perceived legitimacy of the police and courts.     

Nation-Building Narratives in Viet Nam: A Memoir on B-52s and Their Aftermath

In late 1972 (December 18-30), the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by the U.S. Air Force took place. Three weeks later, the American author arrived and witnessed the destruction and how the Vietnamese had already fitted this 'Battle of the B-52s' into their centuries old narrative of resistance to foreign invasion. This article recounts the people and situations that he met on this visit and the ways Vietnamese of all kinds viewed the battle as a great victory for their land, one reinforcing their sense of past, present, and future.     

Das Dislmminierungsverbot des Artikels 21 GRC aufgrund des Vermögens als verfassungsgesetzlich gewährleistetes Recht

Der VfGH hat entschieden, dass manche Bestimmungen der EU-Grundrechtscharta den verfassungsgesetzlich gewährleisteten Rechten des B-VG gleichzustellen sind. Der Beitrag geht zuerst den Voraussetzungen dieser Gleichstellung nach und zeigt, dass sie bei dem Diskriminierungsverbot des Art 21 GRC erfüllt sind. In der Folge wird das Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund des Vermögens etwas beleuchtet. Der Beitrag legt dar, dass "Vermögen" hier als subjektive, positive oder negative, Vermögenslage einer Person zu verstehen ist. In der Folge wird der potentiell sehr weite Anwendungsbereich dieses Verbotes dargelegt.