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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

Examining malpractice in the education context

Journal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education, 2018
Malpractice is a dereliction of professional duty or a failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning by rendering professional services which results in injury, loss or damage.
Ameer Benjamin B. Calderon, Inero V. Ancho   +1 more
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Proportionality in Countering Corruption in Ukraine in the Context of War

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
Corruption adversely affects all spheres of life, posing a significant threat as an enabler of other crimes. These include terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking, and illegal migration, all of which undermine the European integration process and ...
Liliia Timofieieva
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About the US trade deficit and the US “easy money” policy [PDF]

As the US economy continues to be the largest in the world and – despite the recent troubles – continues to remain the most valuable in terms of competitiveness, the US Dollar is likely to continue to keep its world reserve currency status.In this kind ...
Cristi SPULBAR, Cristian STANCIU, Sabin RIZESCU   +2 more
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
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The Legalization and Control of Casino Gambling [PDF]

, 1980
This article seeks to demonstrate that the spread of legalized gambling is inevitable as states recognize the immense revenue generating capabilities of casinos.
Rose, Nelson
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Completely Unguided Discretion: Admitting Non-Statutory Aggravating and Non-Statutory Mitigating Evidence in Capital Sentencing Trials [PDF]

, 2008
[Excerpt] “As an attorney practicing exclusively in the area of death penalty defense at the trial level for the last ten years, my perspective on the problems inherent in the system seems vastly different from that presented in academic research and ...
Turlington, Sharon
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A Betrayal in the Family: An Inhibitor or Stimulus for Business Model Innovation?

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Business‐focused betrayals perpetrated by family members in managerial and decision‐making positions can devastate family businesses, questioning their assumptions about trust and how they conduct the business. Such betrayals ignite tensions between family and business logics, potentially causing paralysis and protection of ...
Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Nazha Gali, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Mathew Hughes   +3 more
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Bribes for Faster Delivery [PDF]

The paper models the practice of charging bribes for faster delivery of essential services in third world countries. It then examines the possibility of curbing corruption by supervision, and secondly, by introducing competition among delivery agents. It
Amal Sanyal
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