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Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting A City’s Struggle against an Epithet


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English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

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Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting A City’s Struggle against an Epithet


Free Download Brett H. Mandel, "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle against an Epithet"
English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

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Consenting to International Law


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009406450 | 393 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
The obligations stemming from international law are still predominantly considered, despite important normative and descriptive critiques, as being ‘based’ on (State) consent. To that extent, international law differs from domestic law where consent to the law has long been considered irrelevant to law-making, whether as a criterion of validity or as a ground of legitimacy. In addition to a renewed historical and philosophical interest in (State) consent to international law, including from a democratic theory perspective, the issue has also recently regained in importance in practice. Various specialists of international law and the philosophy of international law have been invited to explore the different questions this raises in what is the first edited volume on consent to international law in English language. The collection addresses three groups of issues: the notions and roles of consent in contemporary international law; its objects and types; and its subjects and institutions.

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