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The Global Pesticide Complex: Infrastructure, Fragility and Frontiers of Agrarian Change

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most pesticides have long been on the market, the political economy surrounding their production, regulation and use has undergone considerable change, spurring renewed interest in the social sciences. The global pesticide complex (GPC) is an analytical device to understand the multidimensional nature of these changes. In this special
Marion Werner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting Favoritism in Public Procurement

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Favoritism as a mode of corruption is a major concern in public procurement (PP) in many countries. We propose a regression discontinuity design (RDD) test arguing that the winning history of marginal winners and losers can be used to detect favoritism.
Joosua Virtanen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traces of legal Orientalism: racialized othering and (neo)colonial legacies in R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the controversial decision of the High Court R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School (Michaela), where a school's ban on ritual prayers was upheld. Subjecting the case to postcolonial and critical race critique, I contend that Michaela should be understood as a worrying and harmful manifestation of ...
FATIMA MOHAMED AHDASH
wiley   +1 more source

Relative Autonomy beyond the State: Private Transnational Regulation and the Politics of Labour Governance in Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Private transnational governance institutions increasingly acquire regulatory authority in contexts of weak or inactive state regulation, yet their capacity to exercise it remains contested. We extend Poulantzas' concept of relative autonomy, understood as the capacity to act with organizational independence from specific fractions of capital ...
Mahreen Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Five Epistemic Arguments for Workplace Democracy Over Workplace Republicanism

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in the debate between workplace democracy and workplace republicanism by examining their relative capacities to protect workers' epistemic agency and epistemic capacities, an angle that remains underexplored in the workplace justice literature.
Chi Kwok
wiley   +1 more source

The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of artificial intelligence on close protection and surveillance

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The current study assesses whether and how Artificial Intelligence could assist in threat assessment and analysis within the close protection and surveillance field. Methods The study drew on in‐depth interviews with academic experts and practitioners within the Dutch close protection and surveillance system, including the police ...
Isabelle van der Vegt
wiley   +1 more source

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