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Legal Systems and Competing Notions of Justice: Explaining Variance in Religious and Nonreligious Philosophical Exemptions across Western Democracies

German, Chelsea Olivia
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A quantitative and theoretic analysis of variation in the availability of religious and nonreligious philosophical legal exemptions across Western democracies, finding legal system type to correlate with a state's philosophical attitude towards exemptions. Common law systems lead to more exemptions ("accommodation-of-differences") whereas civil law systems correlate with fewer exemptions ("exemption-skepticism").
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Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.
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2012-05-01
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Philosophical exemptions, Legal exemptions, Religious exemptions, Nonreligious exemptions, Legal philosophy, Accomodation of differences, Exemption skepticism, Common law system, Civil law system, Legal system type
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Clemens, Clay
Nemacheck, Christine L.
Dwyer, James
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Government
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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/12269
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