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Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information as a Positive Influence in Political Institutions

Michigan Law Review, 1990
I. THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN PUBLIC DECISIONMAKING UNDER THE LAW-AND-ECONOMICS MODEL 925 A. General Problems with Limited Information ........ 925 B. The Influence of Special Interest Groups in Public L aw 930 C. Solutions to the Special Interest Group Problem ..... 932 II. THE VALUE OF INFORMATION UNDER THE CIVIC VIRTUE MODEL 934 A .
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
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Social norms structure underlying health behaviors: Developing a feedback theory of social norm adoption for public health

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
Social norms play an important role in understanding health behavior in public health, health disparities, and social determinants of health; however, they remain largely understudied from a feedback perspective.
Callie Ogland-Hand, Brian Biroscak, Jin Kim-Mozeleski, Scott M. Williams, Peter S. Hovmand   +4 more
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Law as Asymmetric Information: Theory, Application, and Results in the Context of Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate [PDF]

, 2011
In his seminal 1970 article on lemon markets, George Akerlof posited the possibility of market failure in the presence of asymmetric information regarding a good’s value.
Glen, Patrick J.
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
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Permanent academic update of the teacher: Challenge in the face of the liberalization of knowledge and technological advance

Revista de Ciencias Sociales
The objective of this article is to reflect -through hermeneutic documentary analysis- on permanent and continuous academic teacher training with a view to generating emotional-affective and technological competences to face the different and accelerated
Felipe Rubén Palma-González , Carlos Esteban Borrego-Rosas , Jhonny Richard Rodriguez-Barboza , Heyner Yuliano Marquez-Yauri   +3 more
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Ignoring Functionality as a Correlate of the Underutilization of Computer and Information Technology in Rwandan Higher Education Institutions

Makerere Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The world over, higher education institutions (HEIs) have invested heavily in the promotion of computer and information technology (CIT). Inmany HEIs in Sub-Saharan Africa, however, a disturbing dilemma pertains to the low adoption of the technologies, in spite of the enormity of the investment that the institutions have made in their promotion ...
Ssempebwa, J, Bakkabulindi, FEK, Ssekabembe, B   +2 more
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments? [PDF]

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution.
Arno Riedl, Franziska Tausch, Jan Potters   +2 more
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