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Childism and the Politics of Social Empowerment

Sociedad e Infancias
The argument made here is that childism advances a new critical theory for understanding what is involved in social empowerment. Like feminism, decolonialism, and other critical perspectives, its aim is to reimagine human relations not just for one ...
John Wall Wall
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Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
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Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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Social Theory and the Sociology of Clientelism: Groundwork for a Gramscian Alternative

Sociologica
The category “clientelism” captures a very wide variety of political phenomena, wider perhaps than other peer concepts. It also harbors the potential to serve as an alternative to both liberal institutionalism and power elite theory. But recent trends in
Simeon J. Newman
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Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray, Alexandra E. Hill, Iman Haqiqi, J. Edward Taylor, Thomas W. Hertel   +4 more
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CHALLENGES OF WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOURTH REPUBLIC

International Studies Journal
Research problem: The vital study problem of this study is to observe why Nigerian women stay to involvement low levels of political participation and representation regardless of the representative chances on condition that by the Fourth Republic, and ...
MARIAM GAMINANA AHUOIZA
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O konformite a autenticite. Náčrt vplyvu fundamentálnej ontológie na dielo Hannah Arendtovej (On Conformity and Authenticity. A Sketch of Fundamental Ontology Influencing the Work of Hannah Arendt)

Ostium, 2011
The article provides a sketch of Heidegger’s influence on Arendt’s concept of vita activa. The author focuses on the problem of authentic political action and conformity which, despite Arendt’s criticism towards certain elements of fundamental ontology ...
Michal Zvarík
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Broadening the “Problem-Space” of Political Theory

The Review of Politics
Pineda's book is an original and imaginative reconstruction of activist strategy and political theory, upending the orthodox account of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Against liberal and democratic theorists who domesticate civil disobedience in the United States, with the aim of legitimizing the nation's ...
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
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Intuitions in political theory: problems and alternatives

Politica
How can we answer normative questions in political theory? A common answer in analytical political theory is by seeking a reflective equilibrium based on normative intuitions (or “considered judgements”). Is this a good method? This paper presents an established objection to the intuitionism that characterizes this method: It is hard to reconcile the ...
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