Article
Business, Finance
Yini Liu, Ca Nguyen
Summary: Our study reveals that issuing firms with loan covenants offer larger discounts in private placements compared to those without covenants. We provide evidence supporting the positive impact of financial covenants on discounts, and suggest that borrowing firms may switch to the private equity market due to increased risks and costs associated with default and renegotiation.
JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Management
Joao Albino-Pimentel, Pierre Dussauge, Omar El Nyal
Summary: This paper investigates how firms can rely on non-market factors to protect their intellectual property overseas and make countries more attractive for innovation-related activities. It explores the influence of host country inclination towards the firm's home country and the firm's political capabilities on the choice of innovation location and protection of innovation.
Article
Law
Marius Pieterse
Summary: This article examines the applicability, appropriation, and impact of the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights in African cities, in an effort to reestablish the relevance of international human rights law in contemporary urban contexts. The article concludes that despite being drafted with a rural focus, the African Charter, as interpreted and applied by the African Commission and African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, is well-suited for adaptation to the urban age, despite some textual shortcomings and political obstacles.
LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
(2023)
Article
International Relations
Brett L. Carter
Summary: This paper examines the impact of debt relief negotiations on repression in African countries and finds that Western leverage through debt relief has constrained repression. The study shows a decrease in the daily rate of repression during debt relief negotiations, and this effect holds for both autocracies and democracies.
JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Michael Luoma
Summary: This article examines the Wet'suwet'en people's struggle for territorial control and analyzes the philosophical questions from the perspective of collective self-determination. The author argues that hereditary chiefs can better represent the shared will of the Wet'suwet'en people and discusses the political authority of the Wet'suwet'en governance system.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Julian F. Mueller, Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi
Summary: The epistemic value of a political procedure hinges on its ability to arrive at correct decisions based on an independent standard. The assumption in the literature is that increasing this value improves the overall quality of the procedure. However, we argue that there is reasonable disagreement as it is possible to enhance the epistemic value of a political procedure in ways that raise egalitarian objections.
Article
International Relations
Roger Merino, Ady Chinchay
Summary: This paper explores the political agency of Indigenous peoples located between global forces by analyzing interventions in the Peruvian Amazon. They fight for the recognition of their nationhood and territorial entitlements, as well as their self-determination to engage with economic and environmental agendas from their own worldviews, using the discourse and standards of internationally recognized indigenous rights.
Article
Business, Finance
Neeru Chaudhry, Chris Veld
Summary: We find that investment rates drop by a nonsignificant 2.2% for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in election years. However, private firms record a significant investment drop of 7.4%, likely due to political uncertainty. SOEs balance political uncertainty with the desire to attract voters who want government investments. Both private firms and SOEs perceive investments in election years positively. Increased investment by SOEs and reduction in investment by private firms during election years are associated with improved investment efficiency.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Law
Elinor Buys, Bridget Lewis
Summary: A healthy environment is essential for human rights enjoyment, but current human rights frameworks may not be adequate to effectively protect the environment, necessitating other legal mechanisms to achieve the unity of environmental protection and human rights protection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Travis Curtice, Eric Reinhardt
Summary: Scholars argue that including human rights conditions in trade agreements can enhance human rights, but we suggest that human rights interests may clash with trade, investment, and security interests. Using the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) as a case study, which is a unilateral trade preference program established by the United States in 2000 for up to 49 potentially eligible sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) states, we find that US decisions to terminate AGOA beneficiary status are influenced more by its own trade, investment, and security interests rather than the human rights record of the recipient countries.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
(2023)
Article
International Relations
Calvin Thrall
Summary: Multinational firms operate across multiple national jurisdictions, making them difficult to regulate by any one government. Public-private governance initiatives play a limited but important role in global governance, helping firms self-regulate and benefit from the legitimacy of their public partners.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Lucy Claridge, Daniel Kobei
Summary: In May 2017, the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights addressed the relationship between conservation, human rights, and Indigenous peoples' rights. The court ruled in favor of the Indigenous Ogiek of Kenya, stating that the preservation of the Mau Forest cannot justify denying their Indigenous status and associated rights. The court also ordered the government to grant Ogiek collective title of their lands in June 2022.
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Environmental Studies
Cody Hochstenbach
Summary: This paper answers the question of why the Dutch state has transitioned from promoting private rental growth and liberalization to actively restricting tenure. It highlights the importance of understanding this shift in the context of increasingly restrictive housing policies globally. The paper combines an analysis of changing rental politics with a quantitative study of renters' housing outcomes, arguing that the shift from supportive to restrictive policies is driven by the state's attempt to balance property-led accumulation and middle-class housing demands.
HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Negussie Dejene Woldekidan, Yehualashet Mekonen Abegaz
Summary: The Girl-Friendliness Index is a statistical tool used to assess African governments' performance in realizing the rights and wellbeing of girls. Top ranking countries tend to have comprehensive laws and policies in place to protect girls and allocate more budget to improve girls' wellbeing, while poorly performing countries lack gender-sensitive measures, adequate budget allocation, and effective enforcement of laws and policies. The Index shows a strong positive correlation with well-known indices such as the Human Development Index and the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, indicating the importance of fulfilling girls' rights for human development and good governance.
CHILD INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Bizimana Jean D'Amour
Summary: This article examines the involvement of NGOs in the advisory proceedings of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. It highlights the fact that although NGOs are allowed to petition for advisory opinions in this Court, their utilization has been very limited. The article argues that this lack of effective participation by NGOs is detrimental to the African human rights system and proposes increasing the involvement of NGOs to benefit the proceedings.
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW
(2022)