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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 609-635, July 2026.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Libertarian paternalism is hard paternalism
Analysis, 2017 I argue that libertarian paternalism is in fact paternalism, or hard paternalism, rather than a form of soft paternalism. I do so on the basis of an analysis of the paternalist act according to which the paternalist act needn’t violate the will of the agent who is the target of that act and the paternalist actor need only suspect that her action may ...
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Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the potential of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to support a just eco‐social transition by enabling the emergence of new emancipatory social imaginaries and practices. Against the backdrop of ecological breakdown and deepening precarity under global capitalism, it explores how UBI may function as a democratic tool for socio‐
Julio Lucena +2 more
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Power and Narratives in the Era of Behavioral Government
Institutiones AdministrationisBehavioral government employs tools like nudges to steer behavior toward certain practices, raising ethical concerns if the underlying narratives are not transparent or inclusive. In this context, it has been debated whether these types of policies are a
Manuel C. Ortiz de Landázuri +1 more
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Higher School of Economics Economic Journal, 2019 The article considers two theories that are half a century apart from each other, justifying state intervention in market relations – Richard Musgrave's «Theory of Meritorious Goods» and Richard Thaler's «Libertarian Paternalism». Within the framework of
A. Rubinstein
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Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 519-529, June 2026.ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk +4 more
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 364-385, May 2026.ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Behavioural Procedural Models – a multipurpose mechanistic account [PDF]
The Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2012 In this paper we outline an epistemological defence of what wecall Behavioural Procedural Models (BPMs), which represent the processes of individual decisions that lead to relevant economic patterns as psychologically (rather than rationally) driven ...
Leonardo Ivarola, Gustavo Marqués
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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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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 369-379, May 2026.ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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