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Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co-Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Donati F, Rodríguez-García MJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Entrapping the Hegemon: How Benjamin Netanyahu's Threat Rhetoric Drives US Military Escalation

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT How do materially weaker junior allies influence a hegemon's military posture? Existing theories rely on unobservable covert diplomacy, leaving alliance entrapment methodologically unresolved. This research note introduces a mixed‐methods framework, integrating computational text analysis, time‐series forecasting, and qualitative process ...
Bülent Aras
wiley   +1 more source

Suffering, Silence, and the State: Mass Observation's 1994 Assisted Dying Letters and the Enduring Politics of Palliative Care

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Assisted dying has returned to UK policy debate amid legislative scrutiny and growing hospice sector instability. This paper brings 1994 Mass Observation data into dialog with contemporary debates to examine how members of the public understood suffering, autonomy, and care at the end of life.
Kathryn McEwan, Irene Hardill, Helen Merlane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Game of Mirrors for Complex Policies: The Narratives on Differentiated Autonomy in Italy

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study applies the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to a policy of regional devolution of powers. The analysis focuses on differentiated autonomy in Italy, examining the narratives that emerged in the legislative process of the law regulating the procedures for its activation. The context is of particular interest due to the combination of
Gaia Matilde Ripamonti
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Quasi‐Sovereignty: Big Tech and the Politics of Sovereign Authority in the Digital Age

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As private technology firms expand their control over critical infrastructures, questions of sovereignty and governance are increasingly displaced from states to corporate actors. Existing scholarship on sovereignty assumes that authority is either monopolized by states or shared through institutionalized public–private arrangements.
Chee Hae Chung, Bryce J. Dietrich
wiley   +1 more source

Conditional Autonomy, Discursive Gatekeeping, and Patterns of Action: How Experts Influence Policy in China's One‐Party System

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how experts exert influence within China's one‐party system, where policymaking is ideologically disciplined and knowledge‐intensive. It combines the Functional Theory of Agency, which identifies patterns of action including accumulation of knowledge, brokerage, entrepreneurship, and leadership, with a typology of four ...
Giliberto Capano, Yuchen Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity and the Global Security Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Regulatory Deadlock and Practices of Relational Transcendence

World Affairs, Volume 189, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT One of the most prominent contemporary issues in the arms control domain is the regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS). Today, there exist global governance procedures for AWS due to intense legal and ethical concerns, especially about those equipped with Artificial Intelligence capabilities, herein referred to as intelligent AWS (IAWS).
Dimitris Tsintsaris
wiley   +1 more source

The European Universities Initiative and National Higher Education Governance in Interaction: The Case of the Arqus European University Alliance

European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 3, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking a perspective that combines policy studies and comparative law, this article examines how European University Alliances (EUAs), originating from the European Universities Initiative (EUI), dynamically challenge the national legal frameworks for higher education and traditional notions of institutional autonomy. The article finds the EUI
Hedwig Unger
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 460-484, April 2026.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Technology Standards in Strategic Hedging

Asian Politics &Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that technology standards provide Southeast Asian states with a distinct mechanism for hedging amid intensifying US–China technological rivalry. Traditional hedging strategies emphasizing economic engagement without political alignment are increasingly constrained by the weaponization of technological interdependence ...
Darren J. Lim, Anthea Roberts
wiley   +1 more source