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Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 19-29, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Perspectives on neoliberal political‐economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to ‘society’. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the ‘neoliberal revolution’, claiming that, when ‘the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience’, commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and ...
Jan Dobbernack
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Is Libertarian Paternalism an Oxymoron? [PDF]

In this article I have attempted to discuss two points brought up by Sunstein and Thaler's new perspective on paternalism. The first is that whatever individuals do, they have to take second rank decisions, i.e.
Christophe Salvat
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(Deliberative) Democracy in the Times of the Anthropocene

Scienza & Politica
It has been evident for some time that democracies face significant challenges when addressing the issue of climate change. This has given rise to a trend that could be termed «eco-authoritarian», based on the belief that the magnitude of the problem may
Edoardo Greblo
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Empirical realism and democratic equality

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 321-333, January 2026.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
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Freedom of choice and paternalism in contract law: a law and economics perspective [PDF]

This paper is a preliminary discussion of some theoretical and methodological issues related to my PhD thesis. The topic of the dissertation can be succinctly formulated as the legal and economic analysis of paternalism in contract law. The thesis starts
Peter Cserne
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The subaltern’s voice in the literature of Marcelino Freire

Raído, 2013
This article analyses the representation of the subaltern in the literature of the Brazilian writer Marcelino Freire. We argue that Freire portrays the marginalized with a radical individuality, speaking for themselves and rejecting paternalism.
Renato Lima de Oliveira, Jacques Fux
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Situated Attention in Political Decision‐Making: A Theoretical Framework and Experimental Test of Politicians' Prioritization of Societal Challenges Across Policy Domains

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Prioritization between societal issues is a necessary component of political decision‐making at the helm of governance. The attention‐based view explains how performance below aspirations directs political attention to a singular policy domain, but leaves unaddressed how politicians prioritize between multiple performance shortfalls across ...
Amandine Lerusse, Joris van der Voet
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Do people like financial nudges?

Judgment and Decision Making
Do people like financial nudges? To answer that question we conducted a pre-registered survey presenting people with 36 hypothetical scenarios describing financial interventions.
Merle van den Akker, Cass R. Sunstein
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Self-Ownership and the Categorical Imperative [PDF]

Кантовский сборник
This article examines the attempts of many libertarian philosophers to justify the self-ownership principle using the second formulation of the categorical imperative.
Morozov K. E.
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Framing, Filtering and Fixing: The Ethics of Risk Communication

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 197-207, December 2025.
ABSTRACT There are many puzzles about whether and how to communicate risk information, particularly in public health and medical settings. This paper does three things. First, it suggests a model for whether and how to communicate risk which balances concerns about autonomy and concerns about beneficence.
Stephen John
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