Education as a Common Possession
ABSTRACT This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti‐Marshallian politics that sees the language of ...
Margaret Kohn
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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BUREAUCRATIC REFORM : A WAY TO ELIMINATE CORRUPTION, COLLUSION, AND NEPOTISM PRACTICES IN INDONESIA [PDF]
In the whole world, developing bureaucracy is one of the primary means in country management of various fields of national life and its relationship with other nations in the world.
Primanto, Aji +2 more
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Gubernatorial Re‐Election Incentives, Local Investment Bias, and Pension Fund Performance
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of gubernatorial re‐election incentive and political factors on US public pension funds from 1990 to 2022. Our empirical analysis finds no significant overall relationship between gubernatorial re‐election incentives and local bias in the full sample.
Hongxian Zhang +3 more
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Whose Lands? Which Public? Trump\u27s National Monument Proclamations and the Shape of Public-Lands Law [PDF]
President Trump issued a proclamation in December 2017 purporting to remove two million acres in southern Utah from national monument status, radically shrinking the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument and splitting the Bears Ears National ...
Purdy, Jedediah
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A principal-agent model of corruption [PDF]
One of the new avenues in the study of political corruption is that of neo-institutional economics, of which the principal-agent theory is a part. In this article a principal-agent model of corruption is presented, in which there are two principals (one ...
Groenendijk, Nico
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Failure in Motion: A Framework for Capability Erosion and Institutional Dysfunction
ABSTRACT Drawing on the literature on capability erosion and institutional dysfunction (ID), this study develops a conceptual framework that sheds new light on how the interaction between capability erosion and ID creates conditions for business failure across borders. By articulating two dimensions of heterogeneous capability and resource erosion (i.e.
Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah +1 more
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
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Increasing State Restrictions on Russian Protestant Seminaries
In sum, Russian Protestant seminaries are presently undergoing a trial by state inspection that threatens their very existence. Academics Perry Glanzer and Konstantin Petrenko are correct in asserting that the Russian state’s “power to license and ...
Elliott, Mark R.
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USAID's Locally‐Led Development Agenda: Open Government and Independent Monitoring
ABSTRACT USAID's ambitious localization agenda between 2021–2024—suspended in early 2025—aimed to provide more funding for local organizations, strengthen local systems, and co‐create with local communities. This study uses pre‐2025 open government data to identify continuity and change during USAID’s localization push.
Jeffrey Hallock +2 more
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