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Normative Political Theory

open access: yesTeoria Polityki, 2017
Normative political theory was developed in ancient Greece and provided the foundations for political research. Its role was never questioned until the rise of logical positivism and empirical social science with its claims to be truly scientific’ that is, value neutral.
openaire   +2 more sources

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does accountability for reasonableness work? A protocol for a mixed methods study using an audit tool to evaluate the decision-making of clinical commissioning groups in England

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2015
Introduction Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England are tasked with making difficult decisions on which healthcare services to provide against the background of limited budgets.
Sarah Clark   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The great invigilator: Is interference over polities ever justified? [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo
This article assesses if interference over polities is unjust due to its possibility to structurally undermine the freedom of polities. The thesis of this article is that the global processes’ interference over polities is unjust unless it does not ...
Varda Milan, Anđelković Nemanja
doaj   +1 more source

Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Political Theory [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Politics, 2019
AbstractThis paper separates Wollstonecraft's critical concept of “machiavelian” power and the capacity for domination, from a neutral concept of politics as the complex processes surrounding the power to govern, from her normative account of popular sovereignty which emphasizes collective political power to ensure the discharge of natural duty by way ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political theory: the state of the art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
For much of its history political science has been political theory. As political science begins to establish a stronger sense of identity, political theorists have become more concerned about the point of their activity.
Kelly, Paul
core   +1 more source

Governing Platform Work in the Digital Economy: Comparative Policy Models in Southeast Asia and Pathways to Inclusive Labour Protection

open access: yesEconomies
Platform work governance has emerged as a pressing policy challenge in emerging economies, yet comparative scholarship remains dominated by advanced-economy cases and tends to analyse regulatory instruments in isolation rather than as interdependent ...
Nguyen Thi Giang
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Voting after transition: Political preferences of Serbia’s transitional losers [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo
Economic crises create specific social conditions that affect voter preferences and behaviors. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 reached Serbia a year later, causing a major shock to the fragile Serbian economy, already burdened by the ...
Jović Nikola, Bursać Dejan
doaj   +1 more source

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