A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Micro remote islands: lands of freedom or lands of despotism?
, 2020 The paper addresses the narrative that qualifies micro and remote islands as lands of freedom, suggesting that they can also be lands of despotism. Philosophers from Plato to Aristotle, to Thomas More, to Montesquieu and Rousseau have claimed that micro ...
Elisa Bertolini
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Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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Bad bosses and despotism at workplace: A systematic review of the despotic leadership literature. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Khizar HMU +5 more
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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Liberal democracy and nuclear despotism: two ethical foreign policy dilemmas
Ethics & Global Politics, 2013 This article advances a critical analysis of John Rawls's justification of liberal democratic nuclear deterrence in the post-Cold War era as found in The Law of Peoples. Rawls's justification overlooked how nuclear-armed liberal democracies
Thomas E. Doyle
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Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Burgess MG, Pielke R, Ritchie J.
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‘We need solidarity’: Reflections on Building and Troubling Solidarity in Research Ethics in Myanmar
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Calls for solidarity by civil society are taking place alongside changes in how researchers navigate shifting research landscapes. Yet what solidarity‐based research entails in practice and how this might guide, critique, or challenge institutionalised ethics can be elusive.
Vanessa Lamb +3 more
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Analysis of Montesquieu’s Views on Despotism
, 2023 The aim of this study was to examine Despotism most especially in the views of Montesquieu; an 18thCentury French Philosopher. On the one hand, some scholars have argued that, he was the one who developedand introduced the term Despotism into Political ...
MUBARAK, YUSUF, AVCU, SEYİT ALİ
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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