Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
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Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As political institutions, representative assemblies can be seen as rule‐governed structures of interrelated roles with power mandates, which elected officeholders must exercise in accordance with the normative values justifying the institutions' establishment.
Chiara Destri
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Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2021 Kavanagh E +63 more
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Quantify or Classify? Recommendations for Ambiguous Loss Versus Boundary Ambiguity
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The theory of ambiguous loss is a psychosocial theory born out of my interdisciplinary interests and training in human development, family science, psychology, sociology, and psychiatry/family therapy. Historically, qualitative and mixed methods advanced this theory; today, an ambiguous loss scale is wanted.
Pauline Boss
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Economic Equality and Victory in War: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
This paper tests a simple hypothesis: that given the occurrence of war between two countries, the country that is more egalitarian at the moment of military decision is likely to emerge the victor.
Corwin Priest +2 more
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization within groups of wild house mice.
Curr Biol, 2023 Zilkha N +7 more
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Small group size promotes more egalitarian societies as modeled by the hawk-dove game. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Lin KY, Schank JC.
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, 2017 There are no Reconstruction re-enactors. And who would want to be? Reconstruction is the disappointing epilogue to the American Civil War, a sort of Grimm fairy tale stepchild of the war and the ugly duckling of American history. Even Abraham Lincoln was
Guelzo, Allen C.
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Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession, 1880–1905
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We draw on the historical case of the UK pharmacy industry from 1880–1905 to examine how, in the face of a competitive threat to their survival, lower status professionals seek to reinvigorate the memory of their role in providing community service in the public interest.
Graeme Currie, Andrew Wild, Andy Lockett
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