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Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

The Tragedy of Liberal Democratic Governance in the Face of Global Threats. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health, 2022
Muraille E, Naccache P, Pillot J.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
wiley   +1 more source

Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We explore (classical) liberal thought in China. In China’s long recorded history, some ideas similar to subsequent Western liberal thinking have periodically appeared.
Li, Weisen   +2 more
core  

What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

Political Gender Stereotypes in Parallel: Are Elites or Citizens More Prejudiced?

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that many voters ascribe stereotypical traits and issue competences to male and female politicians – such as viewing women as more compassionate and honest, and men as more competent and decisive – and use these perceptions when evaluating candidates.
Nathalie Giger, Anke Tresch
wiley   +1 more source

Is a More‐Than‐Minimal State the Meta‐Utopia?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 203-212, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia defends the minimal state as a framework for utopia. On Bader's reconstruction, this defense contains two justificatory strands: a common ground argument, which shows the minimal state to be compatible with the widest range of utopian associations, and an approximation argument, which holds it to be the ...
Carlo Ludovico Cordasco
wiley   +1 more source

Protections and Rights: An Intersectional and Diachronic Perspective on Women and the Law in Latin American History

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In just a few decades, historiography on gender and law in Latin America has grown from foundational works establishing the dimensions of women's legal status in colonial compilations and later national codes to scholarship that considers the distinctions among different social groups of women and traces women as active agents in pluralistic ...
Sarah C. Chambers
wiley   +1 more source

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