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Serial Investing and Strategic Commitment in Markets With Unknown Competitors

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how serial investors who regularly face unknown competitors attempt to make their projects dominant. Innovating in new markets often involves uncertainty over the nature of the final product and who the key competitors will be. Such projects also have long‐term funding needs, so a commitment to provide the necessary funds imparts a ...
Naveen Khanna, Richmond Mathews
wiley   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Saving Disgorgement from Itself: SEC Enforcement After Kokesh v. SEC [PDF]

, 2014
Disgorgement is under threat. In Kokesh v. SEC , the Supreme Court held that disgorgement—a routine remedy that allows the SEC to recoup ill-gotten gains from financial wrongdoers—is subject to a 5-year statute of limitations because it functions as a ...
Ahlskog, Stina, Karlsson, Elisabeth
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The Bureaucracy versus Post‐Bureaucracy Paradox in Public Administration: A Historical Perspective on the Selection and Training of Public Managers

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the historical trajectory of public administration (PA), bureaucratic and post‐bureaucratic models have competed and coexisted in unstable relations. Recent studies have put forward the idea that those models constitute two poles of the paradox.
Marta Ingaggiati, Marco Guerci, Giovanni Barbato, Renato Ruffini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 7-22, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Guided by intersectional feminism and symbolic interactionism, the purpose of this study was to document the untold stories of women with incarcerated spouses in India. Background When a family member is incarcerated, the task of emotionally and financially supporting the family often falls upon women, who are likely to be ...
Shivangi Gupta, Caroline Sanner
wiley   +1 more source

Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 1, Page 28-62, January 2026.
An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced legal bans on so‐called ‘conversion therapy’ practices. Yet significant uncertainty and disagreement persist among legal scholars, policymakers and advocates about whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in this area and, if so, how it should be used.
Ilias Trispiotis, Stuart Goosey
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

When Heather needs her second mommy

Juvenile and Family Court Journal, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 4-25, December 2025.
Abstract Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) appeared to settle certain issues in family law by allowing same gender individuals to marry. Unfortunately, Obergefell left some areas of inequality between same gender and heterogeneous households, including visitation and family support rights and obligations, especially rights outside of and before
Daniel R. Fruit
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“Love conquers all?”: Women's narratives on polygyny as an internal critique of intersecting patriarchies

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract This article unveils how gender inequality and colonial dichotomy became visible in the practice of polygyny among Muslim‐Christian intermarried couples in the southern Philippines. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Iligan, it documents the lived experiences of Christian wives, Maranao Muslim women, and female Muslim converts.
Asuna Yoshizawa
wiley   +1 more source