Improving the conceptualisation and measurement of women’s empowerment has been repeatedly identified as a research priority for global development policy. We apply arguments from feminist and ...

Power may be an ‘essentially contested concept’ for academics, as Steven Lukes put it, but it is also endlessly contested in practice. Today’s news is bursting with examples of power being abused, ...

'Authority', 'competence' and other related concepts are determined on the basis of the concept of law as a dynamic order of norms. The norms which regulate the processes of norm creation establish ...