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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

News shocks, consumer confidence and business cycles

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the causal effects of consumer sentiment shocks on macroeconomic aggregates. By constructing a novel instrument based on major non‐economic news shocks in the USA over 1969–2022, and opinion polls around these events, we identify exogenous changes in consumer confidence.
Syed M. Hussain, Zara Liaqat
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary Policy and Wealth Effects: The Role of Risk and Heterogeneity

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the role of asset revaluation in the monetary transmission mechanism. We build an analytical heterogeneous‐agents model with two main ingredients: (i) rare disasters and (ii) heterogeneous beliefs. The model captures time‐varying risk premia and precautionary savings in a setting that nests the textbook New Keynesian model.
NICOLAS CARAMP, DEJANIR H. SILVA
wiley   +1 more source

Eco‐Social Policy Integration as a Process: Towards a Processual Understanding of an Ascending Concept

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite a growing awareness of the interrelation of environmental and social sustainability issues and the need to tackle them in integrated ways, few efforts have been made to develop an analytical framework of eco‐social policy integration.
Jana Brandl
wiley   +1 more source

The Dejudicialization of the German Federal Bureaucracy: An Organizational Perspective on Policy‐Related Knowledge

Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data from a long‐term survey of senior civil servants (1970–2021), this study investigates the declining share of jurists in federal ministerial departments in Germany. The mechanisms driving this trend and its subsequent effects are discussed from an organizational perspective, highlighting the influence of environmental pressure and ...
Marian Döhler
wiley   +1 more source

Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring neoliberal individualism, instrumentality, and competition: Development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ)

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract This article presents the development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ), a novel measure designed to analyze neoliberal ideological beliefs specifically within the context of work and employment. The NLBQ is theoretically grounded in the distinction of three fundamental political neoliberal logics ...
Thomas Höge, Christine Unterrainer, Severin Hornung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
wiley   +1 more source

Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies.
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han, Hyun Bang Shin
wiley   +1 more source

Unemployment Benefits in the EU: The Commission's Approach

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 533-558, March 2026.
Abstract Unemployment insurance is a major component of European welfare regimes, whereby each EU member state has its own distinctive scheme. Despite falling under national competence, the European Commission has exercised pressure over this policy area since the establishment of the European Employment Strategy.
Igor Guardiancich, Eugenio Borgognoni, Igor Tkalec   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source