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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 507-525, May 2026.
ABSTRACT What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational design: epistemic quality, incentive compatibility, and control.
Chi Kwok, Chris Man‐Kong Li
wiley   +1 more source

Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biosurfactants in Plant Protection Against Diseases: Rhamnolipids and Lipopeptides Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020
Biosurfactants are amphiphilic surface-active molecules that are produced by a variety of microorganisms including fungi and bacteria. Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, and Bacillus species are known to secrete rhamnolipids and lipopeptides that are used in a ...
Jérôme Crouzet   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
wiley   +1 more source

Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 54-65, January 2026.
Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
wiley   +1 more source

Sobre o sentido da palavra revolucionário

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais, 2009
Sur le sens du mot "révolutionnaire". Journal d'Instruction sociale. 1 jun 1793. In: O'CONNOR , A. Condorcet e ARAGO, M. F. (Pub.) Oeuvres de Condorcet. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, impr. de l'Institut (Paris), 1847.
Luiz Arnaut, Mônica Carsalad Schlobach
doaj   +2 more sources

Combinatorial Voter Control in Elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Voter control problems model situations such as an external agent trying to affect the result of an election by adding voters, for example by convincing some voters to vote who would otherwise not attend the election.
C. Boutilier   +14 more
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Nowożytna idea postępu Jeana A. Condorceta

open access: yesStudia Warmińskie, 2017
Wiek XVIII otwiera się na postęp poznawczy (epistemologia), który staje się rdzeniem postępu historycznego. Sprecyzował je bliżej Robert Turgot (1727-1781). Wiele wniósł w pojęcie „postępu” odczyt Turgota pt. Discours sur l´histoire universalle z 1750 r.,
Ryszard Podgórski
doaj   +1 more source

Unravelling the Role of Rhizosphere Microbiome and Root Traits in Organic Phosphorus Mobilization for Sustainable Phosphorus Fertilization. A Review

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
Moving toward more sustainable sources for managing phosphorus (P) nutrition in agroecosystems, organic phosphorus (Po) derived from organic inputs and soil is increasingly considered to complement mineral P fertilizer.
Issifou Amadou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Set-Monotonicity Implies Kelly-Strategyproofness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper studies the strategic manipulation of set-valued social choice functions according to Kelly's preference extension, which prescribes that one set of alternatives is preferred to another if and only if all elements of the former are preferred ...
Brandt, Felix
core   +1 more source

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