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This incisive book evaluates the legal effects of soft law, its
foundations and how they behave in some of the most innovative
areas of EU law. Combining theory, language and sectoral insights,
this comprehensive review uses case studies to shed new light on
the three core areas of soft law. The book opens with an
exploration of the meaning and scope of EU soft law’s legal
effects from a theoretical and doctrinal perspective. Chapters
analyse the role, contribution and broader legal effectiveness of
the language employed by EU authorities when drafting soft law
instruments. Finally, in a ground-up approach to the research
topic, the book discusses soft law’s legal effects within three
areas of EU legislation, namely financial supervision, technical
standardisation and telecommunications law. Advancing a legal and
argumentative toolkit to evaluate and improve EU soft law’s
persuasiveness, this title will be advantageous to academics,
practitioners and policy-makers with specialisations in European
law, constitutional and administrative law and regulation and
governance.
This volume presents state-of-the-art empirical studies working
in a paradigm that has become known as human behavioral ecology.
The emergence of this approach in anthropology was marked by
publication by Aldine in 1979 of an earlier collection of studies
edited by Chagnon and Irons entitled Evolutionary Biology and Human
Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. During the two
decades that have passed since then, this innovative approach has
matured and expanded into new areas that are explored here.
The book opens with an introductory chapter by Chagnon and Irons
tracing the origins of human behavioral ecology and its subsequent
development. Subsequent chapters, written by both younger scholars
and established researchers, cover a wide range of societies and
topics organ-ized into six sections. The first section includes two
chapters that provide historical background on the development of
human behavioral ecology and com-pare it to two complementary
approaches in the study of evolution and human behavior,
evolutionary psychology, and dual inheritance theory. The second
section includes five studies of mating efforts in a variety of
societies from South America and Africa. The third section covers
parenting, with five studies on soci-eties from Africa, Asia, and
North America. The fourth section breaks somewhat with the
tradition in human behavioral ecology by focusing on one
particularly problematic issue, the demographic transition, using
data from Europe, North America, and Asia. The fifth section
includes studies of cooperation and helping behaviors, using data
from societies in Micronesia and South America. The sixth and final
section consists of a single chapter that places the volume in a
broader critical and comparative context.
The contributions to this volume demonstrate, with a high degree
of theoretical and methodological sophistication--the maturity and
freshness of this new paradigm in the study of human behavior. The
volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other professions
working on the study of cross-cultural human behavior.
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