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Putting Democratic Theory and Principles of Justice in the Right Place: Ethical Pluralism in Collaborative and Participatory Governance

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges.
Janne Mende, Richard Georgi
wiley   +1 more source

The Fragility of Trust: Interpersonal Encounters, Institutional Distrust, and Conditional Spillovers in the Area of Social Service Delivery

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines social assistance for vulnerable families at the frontline level of service delivery, exploring how citizens' trust and distrust are shaped within this administrative context. It addresses three questions: Do citizens distinguish between trust and distrust in frontline workers and public institutions when reporting on their
Christian Lahusen, Jelena Ceriman, Anastasia Kafe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Banter: A Systematic Review of Literature to Conceptualize the Behaviors That Characterize Banter

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts, Sarah L. Buglass, Loren Abell, Oonagh L. Steer, Angelica Balaos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon, Gabriela Kirk‐Werner, Beth Huebner, Lacey Byram Moore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transboundary Spanning in Social Movements: Organizational Structure and Antiracism in the US Extinction Rebellion Movement

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies: Comparing Differences in the Creation of Academic Programs With Ties to Social Movements in US Higher Education

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
wiley   +1 more source

Nested Claims, Cross‐Segmental Issues, and Elite Competition in Powersharing

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Powersharing systems rely on descriptive representation, where elected elites ‘stand in’ for their segment's voters, incentivising intransigence and penalising cross‐segmental cooperation. Yet powersharing politics regularly witness cross‐segmental appeals, voting patterns and party formation.
Timofey Agarin
wiley   +1 more source

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into Large Language Models

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Large language models produce fluent, contextually appropriate language that invites the inference that something behind the output is thinking. The psychoanalytic theory of thinking, specifically the work of Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott read together, allows us to specify what thinking requires, what the LLM lacks, and what occurs when a
Mustafa Selek
wiley   +1 more source

From Executor to Orchestrator: The Pharmacology Scientist in the Age of Agentic AI

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 120, Issue 3, Page 648-662, September 2026.
Drug development productivity has not improved despite five decades of computational advancement, with the probability that a compound entering Phase I achieving regulatory approval remaining near 10%. Each automation wave increased throughput while leaving the interpretive bottleneck intact; scientists continued to formulate questions, evaluate ...
Michael McCoy, Matthew McCoy
wiley   +1 more source