Compulsory Voting and Black Citizenship

Protesting Black votes is part of our history of rejecting Black Americans as legitimate wielders of political power and contesting the fullness of Black citizenship. Obviously, hostility toward viewing Black Americans as deserving of the rights owed to other Americans is present in nearly every aspect of American life. But, among the oldest and most contentious hostilities—from the Civil War to Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement to contemporary voter suppression efforts—has been the resistance against Black votes. Any opportunity to quell this locus of racial animus calls for urgent address. Particularly, at this moment, when long-standing prophylactic measures such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) are being dismantled, a permanent solution to Black disenfranchisement, its material costs, and its symbolic harm, should be pressing. One simple, if not (politically) easy, solution beckons. Notwithstanding sporadic academic attention, compulsory voting and its connection to Black citizenship has not, to my knowledge, been explored in legal literature. The possible effects of compulsory voting on political inequality, particularly across wealth and class, have been intermittently examined. Scholars who have argued for compulsory voting have also noted the potential material effects of compulsory voting on minority communities, in passing. But, the important symbolic antidote that compulsory voting offers to the history of racist attacks on Black voting remains unexplored

Police Killings as Felony Murder

The widely applauded conviction of officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd employedthe widely criticized felony murder rule. Should we use felony murder as a tool to check discriminatory and violent policing? The authors object that felony murder—although perhaps the only murder charge available for this killing under Minnesota law—understated Chauvin’s culpability and thereby inadequately denounced his crime. They show that further opportunities to prosecute police for felony murder are quite limited. Further, a substantial minority of states impose felony murder liability for any death proximately caused by a felony, even if the actual killer was a police officer, not an “agent” of the felony. In these “proximate cause” jurisdictions, felony murder is far more often used to prosecute the (often Black) targets of police violence, than to prosecute culpable police. Previous scholarship on prosecution of felons for killings by police criticized such proximate cause rules as departures from the “agency” rules required by precedent. But today’s proximate cause felony murder rules were enacted legislatively during the War on Crime and are thus immune to this traditional argument. The authors instead offer a racial justice critique of proximate cause felony murder rules as discriminatory in effect, and as unjustly shifting blame for reckless policing onto its victims. Noting racially disparate patterns of charging felony murder, and particularly in cases where police have killed, the authors call on legislatures to reimpose “agency” limits on felony murder as a prophylactic against discrimination. Finally, the authors widen this racial justice critique to encompass felony murder as a whole, urging legislatures to abolish felony murder wherever racially disparate patterns of charging can be demonstrated

Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah

Overview & Shownotes Police have had a fraught relationship with communities of color since the earliest days of law enforcement in the eighteenth century. Our guest today, professor of law Ekow Yankah, argues that police power has often been deployed in a misguided attempt to solve deep economic and social problems. And this typically comes at the cost of harming people from marginalized communities. Instead, he argues, we need to imagine healthy communities where police play a background role. For the episode transcript, download a copy or read it below. Contact us at [email protected] Links to people and ideas mentioned in the show Ekow Yankah “Whose Burden to Bear? Privilege, Lawbreaking and Race“ “Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing and Race“ Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper story Fourth Amendment Credits Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Music featured in the show: Gullwing Sailor by Blue Dot Session

Inside the Professor\u27s Studio

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Marketing Construction Business: Problems, Prospects and Strategies

Many construction enterprises still often fail to realize that marketing entails more than just playing with few  isolated promotional tools, such as distributing brochures, advertising, promotional  videos, which they often employ without following a structured marketing plan formulated in line with the organization’s aims and objectives. Such ad hoc approach to marketing in the construction industry has resulted in an uphill struggle with little to no success. This paper identifies the problems that has led to the ad hoc approach to marketing in the construction industry and examines the prospects for improving the situation. It discusses the strategies to be adopted to improve the effectiveness of implementing marketing in the management of construction business. The study adopts descriptive research design and the  use of literature review as a method to identify, summarize and synthesize extant literature on construction marketing  to show why the need exist for marketing in the management of construction business. The paper finds that gaps exist in existing construction marketing research knowledge in general and Ghana in particular. There is the need for scientific research which focuses on development of frameworks or models to guide the marketing of construction businesses in developing countries. Construction enterprise owners, construction marketing/management researchers, construction education curriculum developers and managers of construction business organizations will find this paper useful. Future research work must focus on developing construction industry specific frameworks or models   to guide the marketing of construction businesses

Marketing Construction Business: Problems, Prospects and Strategies

Many construction enterprises still often fail to realize that marketing entails more than just playing with few  isolated promotional tools, such as distributing brochures, advertising, promotional  videos, which they often employ without following a structured marketing plan formulated in line with the organization’s aims and objectives. Such ad hoc approach to marketing in the construction industry has resulted in an uphill struggle with little to no success. This paper identifies the problems that has led to the ad hoc approach to marketing in the construction industry and examines the prospects for improving the situation. It discusses the strategies to be adopted to improve the effectiveness of implementing marketing in the management of construction business. The study adopts descriptive research design and the  use of literature review as a method to identify, summarize and synthesize extant literature on construction marketing  to show why the need exist for marketing in the management of construction business. The paper finds that gaps exist in existing construction marketing research knowledge in general and Ghana in particular. There is the need for scientific research which focuses on development of frameworks or models to guide the marketing of construction businesses in developing countries. Construction enterprise owners, construction marketing/management researchers, construction education curriculum developers and managers of construction business organizations will find this paper useful. Future research work must focus on developing construction industry specific frameworks or models   to guide the marketing of construction businesses

The Status of Marketing in Quantity Surveying Consultancy Firms

There is an increasing recognition that marketing plays an indispensable role in enhancement of the professionals’ performance and the growth of their businesses in the midst of competition resulting from changes that are occurring in the construction industry. However, little research considers the level of adoption and implementation of marketing in the management of professional service organisations operating in the built environment consulting industry. This paper reports on a study carried out to investigate the status of marketing in the operations of a Quantity Surveying Consultancy (QSC) business in Ghana. The result should assist management in self evaluating their performance. A questionnaire survey of QSC firms was undertaken to investigate their current practice in terms of marketing organisation, marketing policy and marketing strategies being pursued by the QSC firms. Findings show that no department exist in the firms that are solely responsible for marketing functions. Regarding marketing policy and strategy, varying views exist in the firms as no particular trend can be traced in the responses; there is therefore a need for better understanding of marketing and the ways by which it can be implemented to achieve intended results. Keywords: Quantity surveying, marketing, marketing strategy, marketing policy, Ghana