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Teoria Polityki, 2023 The aim of the article is to present the history of research on the categories of “political actor” and “political agency” conducted by Polish political scientists.
Piotr Borowiec
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Social Movements and Political Agency in the Digital Age: A Communication Approach
Media and Communication, 2016 Digital media pose a dual challenge to conventional understandings of political agency. First, digital media destabilize long-held assumptions about the nature of collective action, about social movements and their capacity to effect change.
Anastasia Kavada
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Structure, Agency and Political Liberalisation in Africa [PDF]
, 1996 The purpose of this essay is to suggest an empirically based model to be used as a framework for analysis in studying contemporary political transitions in Africa. The discussion is founded on the leading assumption that the factors which catalyse regime
Edmond J. Keller
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Rethinking Resilience: Reflections on the Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010 and 2011
Ecology and Society, 2013 Resilience has emerged as a policy response in an era of public concern about disasters and risks that include fear of terrorism and environmental or economic catastrophe. Resilience is both a refreshing and a problematic concept.
Bronwyn Mary. Hayward
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From trauma to apathy: on the hegemonic force of European authoritarian liberalism
European Law Open, 2022 Michael Wilkinson’s Authoritarian Liberalism puts forward a challenging and controversial claim: the history of European integration and the trajectory of the constitutional orders of the founding Member States have always been driven by authoritarian ...
Marco Goldoni
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Agency and responsibility: The personal and the political
Philosophical Issues, 2023 AbstractIn this paper, I review arguments according to which harsh criminal punishments and poverty areundeservedand thereforeunjust. Such arguments come in different forms. First, one may argue thatno onedeserves to be poor or be punished, because there is no such thing as desert‐entailing moral responsibility.
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Yardstick Competition and Political Agency Problems [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 This paper analyzes the role of yardstick competition for improving political decisions. We examine how performance comparisons across jurisdictions affect the agency problem resulting from uncertainty about politicians (adverse selection) and their policies (moral hazard).
Paul Belleflamme, Jean Hindriks
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Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2010 The effect of reelection intention on public health expenditures: An analysis based on reputation models. The political model of reputational-building argues that if the incumbent politician aspires to be reassigned, he/she must act in the voters ...
Lucas Novaes, Enlinson Mattos
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Citizenship and Political Agency. A Focus on Forms of Participation for Immigrants at Local Level
Phenomenology and Mind, 2019 Immigrants’ political agency is undermined by political marginalization and disenfranchisement. Standardly citizenship acquisition is considered the key to improve immigrant’s exercise of political agency. By contrast, I propose, following Bauböck (2015),
Silvia Mocchi
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Feminism and the Critique of Violence: negotiating feminist political agency [PDF]
, 2014 The acute sensitivity of feminism to violence, in its many different forms and contexts, makes it a particularly interesting case for the examination of the relationship between politics and violence in theory and practice.
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