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Chinese Utopianism: A Historical Overview
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This article surveys the historical development of Chinese utopianism and its relationship to broader debates in the field of utopian studies. While early scholarship often dismissed utopianism as a uniquely Western tradition, subsequent research has demonstrated that discourses related to the creation of an ideal society occupied a central ...
Ori Tavor
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Christian Approach to Decision Making
, 2020 Ross Coggins addresses decision making in the modern culture. "What Would Jesus Do?" is described as being a highly subjective and glib cliche while others are just legalists. The role of law and the "forbidden fruit philosophy" is explored in a modern
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BEFORE THE LEGALISTS Punishment and Order in the Ch'un-ch'iu Period
, 1980 The majority of the acts of physical injury which appear in sources of the Ch'un-ch'iu 春秋 period, were not punishments in the sense of measures of Rechtszwang.
籾山, 明
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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion
Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 2, Page 548-563, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman +7 more
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
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Ethnic Conflict and the New Legalism in China
, 2016 In October 2014 the Communist Party of China committed to the establishment of a “socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.” Since then a group of Chinese political elites that we refer to as new legalists has been calling for ethnic conflict ...
Tyson, A, Wu, X
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From Legal Positivism to Neo-Liberal Scientism: A Metaphysical Defence of Moral Law and the Inseparability Thesis [PDF]
Despite decades of contentions between moral legalists and legal positivists about the place of morality in law, moral law has vehemently stood out as the end of history.
Kizito, Michael George
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The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 343-353, September 2026.
Jamie Mayerfeld
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Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation
Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue S1, Page S33-S44, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
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