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The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship [PDF]
, 2016 Drawing upon the African concept of ubuntu, this article examines the epistemic orientations toward individual-society relations that inform democratic citizenship and identity in South Africa. Findings from focus group interviews conducted with 50 Xhosa
Min, Mina, Kubow, Patricia K
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social and environmental accounting provides accountability mechanisms through which organisations communicate their sustainability practices to stakeholders. However, the increasing volume, complexity and diversity of sustainability disclosures make manual content analysis both labour‐intensive and susceptible to subjectivity.
Tarek Rana +6 more
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Voting rules as statistical estimators [PDF]
We adopt an `epistemic' interpretation of social decisions: there is an objectively correct choice, each voter receives a `noisy signal' of the correct choice, and the social objective is to aggregate these signals to make the best possible guess about ...
Pivato, Marcus
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The Suspension Problem for Epistemic Democracy
, 2023 Recently, many normative theories of democracy have taken an epistemic turn. Rather than focus on democracy's morally desirable features, they argue that democracy is valuable (at least in part) because it tends to produce correct political decisions.
Egler, Miguel; id_orcid, Miguel Egler
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The Age of Questions: Truth Regimes and Subjectivity in the Era of Large Language Models
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores how digital technologies shape subjectivity's infra‐political constitution, focusing on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini within what philosophers, inspired by Michel Foucault, term the “digital truth regime.” After defining this regime, the essay identifies five key traits of LLMs: presentism in truth ...
Charles Corval
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Epistemic Democracy and the Truth Connection [PDF]
Public ReasonIf political decision-making aims at getting a particular result, like identifying just laws or policies that promote the common good, then political institutions can also be evaluated in terms of how often they achieve these results.
Robert Weston Siscoe
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza +2 more
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Epistocracy and democratic epistemology
Politics in Central Europe, 2015 Epistocracy, the rule by the experts or educated, poses a significant challenge to authentic democratic rule. Epistocrats typically reason from the premise, “experts have knowledge of political truths” to the conclusion, “experts should have the ...
Min John B.
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European Journal of Futures Research, 2017 Broadly defined, deliberative democracy aspires the decision-making legitimacy by deliberation of equal citizens. As a response to the growing discontent with the representational governance, the normative and empirical development of the deliberative ...
Hanna-Kaisa Pernaa
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