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Regulatory Agencies Under Mutating Populism in Office: Insights From Italy (1990–2025)

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Our paper builds a bridge between the emerging strand of research on public administration under populist rule and the established literature on delegation to independent regulatory authorities (IRAs). We focus on Italy, a critical case in Western Europe, which between 2001 and 2025 experienced six coalition governments dominated or strongly ...
Fabrizio Di Mascio, Giulio Francisci, Martino Maggetti, Alessandro Natalini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calibration and transfer in indicator-based assessments of artificial consciousness. [PDF]

Neurosci Conscious
Koch F.
europepmc   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 309-327, December 2026.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Physician Leadership Development: A Critical Perspective. [PDF]

J Healthc Leadersh
Saxena A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

Functional sufficiency in VR: achieving non-corporeal embodiment. [PDF]

Front Syst Neurosci
Wright M, Petit O, Schnack A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Professions Remain Analytically Distinct From Non‐Professional Occupations?

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent debates in sociological literature have questioned whether ‘professions’ and ‘non‐professional occupations’ remain analytically distinct concepts. This article engages with longstanding scholarship on work, occupations and professions to address this question.
Meaghan Furlano
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Etxeberria A, Rodriguez-Muguruza A.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Institutions Shape the Effects of Agricultural Cooperatives on Their Members

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1078-1113, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives represent a promising way of improving the quality of life of half a billion smallholders, who account for the vast majority of the world's food production. Yet, little is known about the institutional factors that explain the potential benefits of being a member of a cooperative.
Simon Cornée, Madeg Le Guernic, Damien Rousselière   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lions and tigers and AI, oh my: an ethical framework for human-AI interaction based on the five freedoms of animal welfare. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Tait I.
europepmc   +1 more source