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The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters, Sean Hamil, Danny Fitzpatrick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conditional Cosmological Recurrence in Finite Hilbert Spaces and Holographic Bounds Within Causal Patches

Universe
A conditional framework of Conditional Cosmological Recurrence (CCR) is introduced, as follows: if a causal patch admits a finite operational Hilbert space dimension D (as motivated by holographic and entropy bounds), then unitary quantum dynamics ...
Nikolaos Chronis, Nikolaos Sifakis
doaj   +1 more source

Eternal inflation with arrival terminals

Physical Review D, 2015
We analyze the cosmological role of terminal vacua in the string theory landscape, and point out that existing work on this topic makes very strong assumptions about the properties of the terminal vacua. We explore the implications of relaxing these assumptions (by including "arrival" as well as "departure" terminals) and demonstrate that the results ...
Stoltenberg, Henry, Albrecht, Andreas
openaire   +3 more sources

False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
wiley   +1 more source

Investigations into the Conditions Necessary for Stochastic Eternal Inflation

, 2012
Theories of cosmological inflation, an early exponential expansion of the universe, have solved the horizon, flatness, and monopole problems in addition to successfully predicting properties of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
Kuns, Kevin Aaron
core   +1 more source

ACCOUNTING FOR BIODIVERSITY: Periphery Urbanization, Environmental Conflict, and Spatial Inequality in Monetizing the Value of Nature

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In terms of mainstream sustainability economics, market‐led initiatives aimed at biodiversity restoration represent a productive, morally conscientious choice. Under this view, efforts in areas such as biodiversity offsetting, net gain, or finance are considered effective tools for preventing or managing environmental degradation.
Ihnji Jon
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Precarity or Creating Cushions? Examining Canadians' Experiences With Financialization and Insecurity Across the Life Course

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines experiences and perceptions of economic insecurity across individual social trajectories within the context of pervasive financialization in Canada. Drawing on a comprehensive pan‐Canadian survey (n = 7483) and set of interviews (n = 127) collected as part of the Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS), we use a mixed‐methods ...
Michelle Maroto, Guillaume Durou, Samuel Braden, Andrea DeKeseredy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Back(reaction) to the future in the Unruh-de Sitter state

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019
Motivated by black hole physics, we define the Unruh state for a scalar field in de Sitter space. Like the Bunch-Davies state, the Unruh-de Sitter state appears thermal to a static observer.
Lars Aalsma, Maulik Parikh, Jan Pieter van der Schaar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source