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Trusting the Gatekeeper: Why and When Do we Trust State Audit Institutions?
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We reveal the sources of public trust in state audit institutions as a major gatekeeper of good governance. Based on rationales developed in trust research and democratic theory, we test our hypotheses using a survey distributed to Israeli citizens.
Dana Natan‐Krup +2 more
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Governing Credit in the Digital Age: Public Perceptions and Engagement in China's Credit Systems
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a global trend toward embedding personal credit systems and their scoring mechanisms within broader governance infrastructures. A prominent and controversial example is China's Social Credit System (SCS), which plays a central role in the country's data‐driven financial and social governance.
Mo Chen +2 more
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“General Interest” Group or “Special Interest” Group? Understanding Nonworker Support for Unions
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The labor movement has mounted a comeback in recent years, with breakthrough organizing and strikes at employers including Starbucks, Amazon, UPS, and the major automakers. The continuation of this trend, which could help stem rising economic inequality, may depend partly on how successful unions are at rallying public support. Yet this may be
Katherine Copas, Teke Wiggin
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Perceptional Welfare Boundary for Migrant Families in China: What, Where and How?
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite recent reforms to China's hukou system, internal migrants in urban centres continue to face significant barriers in accessing welfare benefits and public services. This study introduces the concept of the perceptional welfare boundary to explain how welfare exclusion persists beyond formal institutional constraints.
Qiaobing Wu, Shirley Yang
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socioeconomic developments in high‐income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state.
Andrew Zola
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 3109-3124, May 2026.ABSTRACT Although research on sustainability in the healthcare sector is growing, limited attention has been paid to how pharmaceutical companies can be motivated to engage more actively in achieving net‐zero healthcare goals. This study argues that the breadth of directors' experiences—across educational, industrial, and organizational domains—can ...
Ruixin Su, Jianguo Du, Si Li
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Concerted Cultivation in Canada: Class‐Based Approaches to Parenting
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT The literature on concerted cultivation describes how higher‐class parents reproduce their social class standing in their children by engaging in ‘cultivating’ parenting practices. I use Latent Class Analysis and multinomial logistic regression applied to survey data from Canada to inductively uncover distinct approaches to parenting and then ...
Gerry Veenstra
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The Gay Parental Turn: Canadian Gay Fathers and the Reorganization of Care and Community
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Community has long been key to the well‐being of gay men, yet little research examines how gay fathers, specifically, relate to the broader LGBTQ+ community. Drawing on interviews with 18 mostly White, (upper‐) middle‐class Canadian gay fathers, I investigate their expectations and experiences of family and community, showing they describe ...
S. W. Underwood
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study proposes a theoretical model that integrates important mediating and moderating effects to explain whether and how homeownership is potentially linked to health in today's Canadian society. This integrative model examines (1) whether the link between homeownership and health is moderated by housing cost (especially housing ...
Min Zhou
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Exposing the Relationship Between Gentrification and Incarceration [PDF]
, 2015 This paper seeks to demonstrate that there is a deliberate and intentional link between residential housing patterns and crime and mass incarceration, and that government plays a strong role in allowing and formalizing this link.
Kellogg, Casey
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