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Misconduct complaints and agents’ incentives: Evidence from housing transactions
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the impact of misconduct complaints against agents on their self‐interested incentives and examines how agents attempt to shield themselves from the associated adverse effects on their reputations and career prospects.
Lawrence Kryzanowski, Yanting Wu
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Embodied Learning: Why at School the Mind Needs the Body
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Despite all methodological efforts made in the last three decades, Western instruction grounds on traditional principles. Most educational programs follow theories that are mentalistic, i.e., they separate the mind from the body. At school, learners sit,
Manuela Macedonia +2 more
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Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Studies of early case processing outcomes in the United States typically assume that decisions are made unilaterally by the prosecutor, such that prior contact with the legal system is universally associated with harsher outcomes for defendants.
R. R. Dunlea, Miranda A. Galvin
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LE POUVOIR JUDICIAIRE DE LA LANGUE: VERS UNE SEMIOTIQUE DE LA PLAIDOIRIE
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2020 PUTEREA JUDICIARĂ A LIMBII: SPRE O SEMIOTICĂ A PLEDOARIEIPrezentul articol se referă la discursul judiciar și în special la pledoariile analizate din punctul de vedere al metodei semiotice și al geometriei gândirii.
Ana GUȚU
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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira +2 more
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Styles of CommunicationThis research work is a sociolinguistic study of business conversations among traders and buyers in selected markets in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
GRACE O. PREZI
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the EU's evolving narratives concerning the governance of digital technologies, focusing on the intersection of geopolitical challenges and internal policymaking through the lens of the strategic narratives approach. This compares two key EU narratives relating to digital policy: on the one hand, the narrative on ‘digital
Flavia Lucenti +4 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rise of independent oversight of the accounting profession has attracted considerable research attention. Much of this research has studied how professional accounting bodies and the Big 4 firms have shaped the mandate and capabilities of independent oversight bodies.
Brendan O'Dwyer +2 more
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