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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting Favoritism in Public Procurement

The 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, Janne Tukiainen, Susmita Baulia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

It’s All About Me (Or Is It Us?): The Narrative Antecedents of the Locus of Celebrity

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract For two decades, research on individual and organizational celebrity has flourished. However, the literature remains limited in several ways. First, despite recent gains regarding the antecedents of celebrity, current theory does not fully explain why celebrity resides at a specific locus (i.e., at the individual‐ and/or organizational level).
Laura D’Oria, Michael D. Pfarrer, Rhonda K. Reger, Annette L. Ranft   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló, Elanor Colleoni, Andreas Georg Scherer, Hannah Trittin‐Ulbrich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Journal 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, Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Five Epistemic Arguments for Workplace Democracy Over Workplace Republicanism

Journal 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

From Evidence to Engagement: Understanding Online Resistance to Community Water Fluoridation for Public Health Communication—A Qualitative Study

Journal of Public Health Dentistry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study explored how individuals in an online anti‐CWF community construct and sustain opposition narratives to inform evidence‐based communication and policy engagement. Methods A qualitative study was undertaken with adults who self‐identified as not supportive of CWF.
Nilesh Torwane, Diep Ha, Ratilal Lalloo, Kristiana Ludlow, Nithin Manchery, Loc Do   +5 more
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The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

Journal 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

Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

Language 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, Scott Crossley, Wesley Morris, Joon Suh Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source