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Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
wiley   +1 more source

The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies: Comparing Differences in the Creation of Academic Programs With Ties to Social Movements in US Higher Education

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
wiley   +1 more source

From Envy to Radicalization. [PDF]

open access: yesEvol Psychol Sci
Moncrieff M, Lienard P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
wiley   +1 more source

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