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Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The literature on the relationship between leader behaviours and effectiveness is a jungle of complementary yet often conflicting leadership theories that perplexes researchers and practitioners alike, as indicated by various theories of bright and dark side leadership (i.e., leader behaviours reflecting widely considered positive and negative
Jianyun Tang, Mary Crossan
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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The Role of the Legal Profession in Europe

Copernican Journal of Law
This text explores the evolving role of lawyers in the European context, at both national and supranational levels, in light of the integrated system for the protection of rights.
Silvio Pittori
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Machiavelli

This repository contains two companion works examining Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince through textual reconstruction and organizational analysis. The Lucid Prince is a Lucid Conversion of The Prince designed to increase accessibility while preserving the dependency structure, argumentative relations, and important terms of the source ...
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Klasik Elit Teorisyenlerinde Makyavelist İzler

Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2022
Bu çalışmanın amacı Siyaset sosyolojisi disiplini içerisinde ele alınan elit teorileri ve seçkinci yaklaşımların klasik temsilcileri olan Pareto, Mosca ve Michels’in yaklaşımlarına İtalyan düşünür Machiavelli’nin etkisini incelemektir.
Muhammed Akif Yalçın
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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 1606-1620, October 2026.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 321-330, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
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