Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Platform companies like Uber and Airbnb are depicted as agile policy entrepreneurs who can navigate the boundaries of regulatory frameworks and manipulate regulations to their advantage; however, recent empirical studies suggest that their capacity to influence policy depends on the particular political and institutional context.
Eliska Drapalova, Kai Wegrich
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How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen +2 more
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Editorial: The cost of war: sociological approaches to the societal and individual wounds of Combat. [PDF]
Front SociolGrimell J, Atuel H, Sinai C.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Communication and <i>Cholera Morbus</i>: measures and fears in 19<sup>th</sup> Century Italy in the face of an unknown evil. Medical ignorance and ideological paradigms unchanged over time. [PDF]
J Prev Med HygMartini M, Danielli F.
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Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
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The rhythm of aging: Stability and drift in the individual rate of senescence. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APatricio SC.
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Digital Futures Between Participatory Digital Democracy and Participatory Digital Fascism
Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores one of the defining political questions of the twenty‐first century: will digital technologies strengthen democracy or accelerate new forms of authoritarianism and fascism? Against the backdrop of platform capitalism, AI‐driven communication, surveillance infrastructures, disinformation and democratic crisis, the study asks
Christian Fuchs +2 more
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Phylogenetic and epidemiological insights into centenarians' resilience to COVID-19: exploring the role of past coronavirus pandemics. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolRomano G, Ferrari A, Baldanti F.
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World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Confrontational violence still puts catastrophic burdens on children, with 2024 being the highest recorded levels of displacement, malnutrition, injury, and deprivation in contemporary humanitarian history. Children's surgical care is still grossly underrepresented in health responses worldwide in the prevention of avoidable deaths and long ...
Gaurav Chanderprakash Mittal +4 more
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