Essays about: "American Law"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 169 essays containing the words American Law.
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21. Bootleggers and Baptists in American Fuel Economy Regulation – A qualitative content analysis of American automakers’ attitudes towards CAFE-standards
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The thesis aims to explain the American automaker’s drastic shift in opinion regarding Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)-standards. After years of lobbying for weaker standards, the automakers suddenly dropped their support for President Trump’s deregulatory attempts and sided with California, the state Trump had an ongoing legal fight with over fuel economy regulation. READ MORE
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22. Empowerment for Whom? Evaluating Women's Empowerment under Indigenous Self-Governance in Oaxaca, Mexico
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Recognising indigenous people's rights has been a priority for Latin American countries since the late 1990s. Yet, a legal recognition of their self-governance has been controversial as they are argued to contrast with liberal values of gender equality. READ MORE
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23. Killer acquisitions and European merger control in the digital era
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : The Big Tech companies, more precisely the five American giants: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, have been performing a massive number of startup acquisitions and strengthening their dominant position in the market. In an economical study about mergers in the pharmaceutical sector the term killer acquisition was firstly adopted to define a transaction in which an incumbent, after acquiring a innovative target, terminates the development of the target’s innovations in order to prevent a future competitor. READ MORE
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24. “I don’t have to say thank you for what is my right” : Social movement networks and public policies for migrant women in Florianópolis, Brazil
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : Brazil, like other Latin American countries, has witnessed an increase in south-south migration rates in the last decade. This scenario led to important changes in migration policies at the Federal level – the update of the conservative Foreigner Statute from 1980 to a rights-based Migration law in 2017 is the prime example of how migration flows can contribute to the promotion of rights and strengthen democracy in host societies. READ MORE
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25. Making EPA Great Again? A Study of how the Politicization of Climate Change Affected the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Obama and Trump administrations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The politicization of scientific facts, such as climate change, is a highly debated phenomenon in the US. It is well established that climate change is both real, and human-caused. Still, significant parts of the American political community refuse to adhere to this scientific fact. READ MORE
