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Contractualism and Tax Governance: Hobbes and Hume

2019
In early modern history the concept of social contract was developed to establish sovereign authority and citizens’ duty to obey the law. The social contract marks the transition from the state of nature to the civil state. The contract or covenant is concluded by self-interested individuals driven by the fear of death.
Gribnau, Hans, Dijkstra, Carl
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Contractual governance for sustainable service

Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 2005
What is contractual governance in a scenario of performance management? When approached from a static viewpoint, contracting is largely connected with the securing of resources, thus acquiring a capacity focus. In this article, we focus on contractual governance as a part of performance management for a stakeholder network in a specific, government ...
Bo Enquist, Mikael Johnson, Carolina Camén   +2 more
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Contractual Governance in Trucking: A Comment

The American Economist, 1994
In an innovative and cogent article, Smith (1993) analyzes the structure of post-deregula tion contracting in the trucking industry, utiliz ing the transactions-cost framework developed by Williamson (1979) and by Klein, Crawford, and Alchian (1978).
Franklin G. Mixon, Kamal P. Upadhyaya
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Relational and Contractual Governance for Innovation

2018
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this record ; While the early years of Information Technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) were mainly characterized by a quest for cost savings (Loh and Venkatraman 1992; Lacity and Hirschheim 1993) and a focus on core competences (Quinn ...
Oshri, I, Kotlarsky, J, Gerbasi, A
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Contractual Legitimacy in Organizations and Governments

European Journal of Sociology, 1972
In an essay on the Nambikuara of the Mato Grosso, Lévi-Strauss revives in an interesting fashion the problem of the Social Contract. Among the Nambikuara are found the most primitive forms of social and political structure. In the words of Lévi-Strauss: “No social structure is weaker and more fragile than the Nambikuara band” (I).
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Contractual Liability of a Government

1938
It has been stated above that the Commission did not consider claims based upon non-fulfilment of a contract by a Government to be outside its jurisdiction.
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The Quasi-Contractual Liability of Governments

The University of Toronto Law Journal, 1959
N this article, I propose to examine one aspect of quasi-contractual liability-a topic that is complicated and uncertain in most legal systems, not only in the area of governmental liability but also in the area of private law. For the purposes of a comparative study, I have chosen the legal systems in the United States, England, and France.
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Contractual Liability of Government of India

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
The subject of government contracts has assumed great importance in the modern times. Today the state is a source of wealth. In the modern era of a welfare state, government's economic activities are expanding and the government is increasingly assuming the role of the dispenser of a large number of benefits.
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‘Contractual Governance’ of Deviant Behaviour

Journal of Law and Society, 2003
This paper seeks to analyse and make sense of the growing role and implications of forms of ‘contractual governance’ that are emerging in diverse fields of social life and public policy in England and Wales, both within and beyond criminal justice. Collectively, these modes of control mimic and deploy ‘contracts' and ‘agreement’ in the regulation of ...
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Contractualism and transnational welfare governance

2006
The global public policy agenda now resonates with terms such as ‘poverty reduction’ and ‘pro-poor growth’. Poverty, it seems, has been rediscovered by the global community, and the new social agenda differs from the previously dominant ‘Washington Consensus’ of market and trade liberalization.
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