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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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The Long March Through the Institutions and the Fifth Wave of Juridification
Constellations, EarlyView.
Olof Hallonsten
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Understanding place attachment to remote environments: An Antarctic case study
Geographical Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Anthropocene presents unique challenges for humanity’s relationship with remote environments. Transboundary environmental problems, such as climate change or plastics pollution, affect places that are beyond most people’s direct experience.
Katie Marx +3 more
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Team photo‐diaries: Making places, people, and power more visible
Geographical Research, EarlyView.The article reflects on the use of research associates‐generated photo‐diaries during household census data collection in Northwest Cambodia. Initially a training tool for Cambodian researchers, they became essential for data collection and collaboration between Cambodian and Australian teams, highlighting ethical challenges and power imbalances in ...
Ariane Utomo +18 more
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Third or “Second and a Half”? Continuity, Path Dependence, and the Third Nuclear Age
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world has entered a new nuclear age. Scholars have characterized this “third nuclear age” as one of renewed competition among nuclear‐armed great powers and the coming maturation of new technologies. I trace the origins of the new nuclear age. Focusing primarily on US strategies with two case studies on conventional strike capabilities and
Jan Ludvik
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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FATIGUE AS A HAZARDOUS FACTOR FOR FLIGHT SAFETY
Научный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2017 The main priority of any air company activity and the main condition for its development is the achievement of the highest flight safety level. Significant positive results in this area have been recently achieved, hence, the relative stagnation of ...
M. L. Alexander, N. K. Irina
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“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Instrumental variable (IV) analysis relies on the exclusion restriction—that the instrument only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable and not via other causal routes. However, scholars generally justify the exclusion restriction based on its plausibility.
Jonathan Mellon
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Authoritarian cue effect of state repression
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract State repression in autocracies has long been assumed to elicit explicit or implicit disapproval from citizens. Recent studies suggest that authoritarian governments can garner support for repressive policies through active information manipulation or exploiting social cleavages.
Jiangnan Zhu +4 more
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