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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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Obesity as political and theoretical problem [PDF]

open access: yesMedicinski Glasnik Specijalne Bolnice za Bolesti Štitaste Žlezde i Bolesti Metabolizma "Zlatibor", 2012
Spread of obesity and diseases that it causes brought to justified warnings of an epidemic. Author starts from classical liberal differentiation between self regarding and others regarding acts, and then raises the issue of the possible liberal approach ...
Đurković Miša
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The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most research on the radical right attempts to identify the one central voting motive among its supporters, few studies have sought to differentiate between different types of voters. Given this research gap, we assume that there are multiple paths to the radical right and that different groups have different motives for their support ...
Florian Buchmayr
wiley   +1 more source

Il paese mancato di Piero Gobetti. Il problema italiano

open access: yesIncontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2011
Piero Gobetti's ‘failed nation’   The article aims to expounds the essence of Piero Gobetti’s analysis of Italian politics between the Risorgimento and Fascism.
Giovanni Perazzoli
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Rigour and Creativity

open access: yesHistory of Classical Scholarship, 2021
This paper explores some of the phases of intellectual history discussed in Constanze Güthenke’s book Feeling and Classical Philology (Cambridge, 2020): the links between early nineteenth century liberalism and the scoping of ancient history as a field ...
Stefan Rebenich
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

From the 'End of History' to the 'End of Liberalism'?

open access: yesPolitikon, 2020
A variety of pathologies within contemporary Western political regimes question the preference for liberal democracies: they can be contradictory, have produced significant economic inequalities, corroded social fabric, and lack a claim to ...
Peter Wedekind
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

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