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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered non-contestation: Deterring electoral contestation using violence in local elections. [PDF]

J Peace Res
Das N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Disentangling contract and law: Legal specificity and contractual governance in public–private partnerships

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study examines how legal design shapes contractual governance in public–private partnership (PPP). We argue that PPP‐specific laws do not simply strengthen institutional safeguards; by varying in detail, they also alter the flexibility available for project‐level contracting.
Mohammad Hosseini, Bertrand V. Quelin
wiley   +1 more source

EUPopLink Country Report-Bulgaria. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Cholakov P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
wiley   +1 more source

Power, interests, and maternal health care: a political economy analysis of service delivery redesign in Kenya. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Nzinga J, Olwanda E, Opondo K, Kimutai H, Cooper J, Arwah B, Tsofa B, Barasa E, Croke K.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring institutional confidence in backsliding democracies: Evidence from Mexico. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Bessen B, Stokes S, Uribe A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source