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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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, 2023 [EN] In recent years, within sectors such as nuclear, with significant risks, but with a high historical focus on safety, which has led to very low accident rates, the need has grown to seek new strategies that enable us to reduce even more this level of incidents.
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, 1992 Focusing on the multiple meanings of the statement A was a more important cause of C than was B, Professor Strassfeld considers the feasibility of comparative causation as a means of apportioning legal responsibility for harms.
Strassfeld, Robert N.
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Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary systems thinking occurs in an increasingly fractured world. To think about systems is to be a part of a multitude of worlds that possess many inherent contradictions. Although contemporary systems thinking constantly oscillates between universality (i.e., the general systems theory genealogy) and diversity (e.g., the social ...
Jonathon Mackay
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Recent Work on Internal and External Reasons [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines some recent arguments for internalism that (i) appeal to an analogy between practical and theoretical reasons, (ii) look toward our practices of reasoning with others, or (iii) tie reasons to good deliberation.
Brunero, John
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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The deconstruction of the Israeli state
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis paper argues that the core of Israeli crisis of democracy has been an attack of the Israeli government on the state. That is, the current Israeli government has been transforming the regime and undermining its liberal characters by dismantling the ...
Doron Navot, Yair Goldshmidt
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Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This work explores the professional experiences, challenges, and collective identity of scholars within the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) community. Through the analysis of survey data from 43 participants, semi‐structured interviews with 10 scholars, and the examination of relevant community documents, this research uncovers how ...
Mehmet Ali Icbay
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Mulla Sadra on the Essence and its Constructional Meaning [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2018 Mulla Sadra’s philosophical ideas – as one of the pioneers in the field of ontology – have had many ups and downs over the time. So as more of his philosophical notions and ideas affected by evolution and have been changed.
bagar Hossinlo, Hamad Naji asfahani
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