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Creeping conditionality in the UK: From welfare rights to conditional entitlements? [PDF]
, 2004 A widely recognised central tenet of New Labour's "Third Way" is no rights without responsibilities. The extent to which this idea underpins the British government's approach to welfare reform has been extensively commented upon.
Dwyer, PJ
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Contractualism as the foundation of involvement in moral issues about nature and the environment
Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2019 The present text seeks to make a journey through an anthropocentric ethical proposal, in order to establish a type of moral bond that includes all rational agents, in the exercise of a moral act in favor of the environment and animals.
John Jairo Pérez Vargas
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What are ‘universalizable interests’? [PDF]
, 2000 Many of Habermas's critical commentators agree that Discourse Ethics fails as a theory of the validity of moral norms and only succeeds as a theory of the democratic legitimacy of socio‐political norms. The reason they give is that the moral principle (U)
Finlayson, James Gordon
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Contractual corporate governance [PDF]
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2008 Companies have the choice to deviate from their national corporate governance standards by opting into another system. They can do so via contractual devices – such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, (re)incorporations, and cross-listings – which enable firms to choose their preferred level of investor protection and regulation.
Goergen, M., Renneboog, L.D.R.
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The Politics of Death:On Life after the ‘End of History'. [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions.
Palladino, Paolo
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Contractually stable networks [PDF]
International Journal of Game Theory, 2009 We develop a theoretical framework that allows us to study which bilateral links and coalition structures are going to emerge at equilibrium. We define the notion of coalitional network to represent a network and a coalition structure, where the network speciÖes the nature of the relationship each individual has with his coalition members and with ...
Caulier, Jean-François +2 more
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]
, 2018 In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin +12 more
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2007 The colonization in the Portuguese America born of the violence from European metropolis that determined the bud of a productive structure returned to have well-taken care of the external interests.
José Maurício Saldanha Alvarez
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Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition.
Behavioral and Brain SciencesIt is widely agreed upon that morality guides people with conflicting interests towards agreements of mutual benefit. We therefore might expect numerous proposals for organizing human moral cognition around the logic of bargaining, negotiation, and ...
Sydney Levine +3 more
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Intergenerational justice and climate change [PDF]
, 1999 Global climate change has important implications for the way in which benefits and burdens will be distributed amongst present and future generations. As a result it raises important questions of intergenerational justice.
Page, Edward
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