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When Do Citizens Support Corrupt Politicians? The Trade‐Offs Between Corruption and Competence

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The intriguing paradox of wide public disdain for corruption alongside popular corrupt politicians exists globally. By speaking to public ethics theory and rational choice theory, this study examines the trade‐off in which citizens tolerate corrupt officials in exchange for their competence to deliver public benefits.
Wenyan Tu, Hanyu Xiao, Xing Ni
wiley   +1 more source

On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During and following the Covid‐19 pandemic, the European Union (EU) is taking first steps toward a European Health Union (EHU). There is no set definition of what an EHU is, but in this paper, we explore the popular support for different designs of an EHU, including a pillar in which healthcare policy competences are shared between the EU and ...
R. Beetsma, F. Nicoli
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating Care: How Transparency, Ownership, Control, and Sanctions Shape Trust and Preferences

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Of the various attributes and regulatory tools related to nursing home service provision—such as ownership, transparency, oversight, and sanctions—which are seen as preferable and are most trusted? To address this question, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment on nursing home services with 1009 direct relatives of nursing home residents ...
Ixchel Pérez‐Durán   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and
Giampietro Gobo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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