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In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
wiley   +1 more source

A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Washing? Examining the Effectiveness of Corporate Gender Equality Initiatives

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing political backlash and the rollback of DEI initiatives in the US and abroad, we explore whether voluntary gender equality programs produce measurable reductions in workplace gender discrimination, and how the political context mediates these effects.
Yvonne Ehrstein, Stefano Maiani, Geoffrey Wood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Gender Antagonism to Inclusive Solidarity? Trade Union Membership and Attitudes Toward Women's Employment

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why and to what extent do union members differ from non‐members in attitudes toward women's employment? This study argues that a masculinized conception of work has historically underpinned gender antagonism in trade unionism, and that the rise of right‐wing populism may have hindered recent progress toward gender equality among union members.
Jianxuan Lei
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Nostalgia Widens the Gap Between Obsessive and Harmonious Passion in Support for Political Violence

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collective nostalgia—a longing for a group's shared past—carries both a sweet pull toward ingroup connection and a sour potential for outgroup hostility. We propose that these divergent associations depend on the form of passion people hold for their political cause. Drawing on the dualistic model of passion, we distinguished obsessive passion,
Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Daniel Snook, Danaiym Talantbekova, Jais Adam‐Troian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forming European Political Awareness and Facilitating Civic Engagement? Mainstream Europarties in Social Media

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how mainstream Europarties utilise social media to communicate with the public. According to EU law, Europarties are expected to strengthen the EU's legitimacy, mainly by fostering European political awareness and facilitating civic engagement.
Stefano Greco, Tapio Raunio
wiley   +1 more source

How and Why EU Institutions Promote the Digital Euro: The Politics of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of money is a crucial issue in the digital age, and the emergence of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is widely recognised as a transformative development. However, despite its significant implications for monetary sovereignty, regulatory governance and strategic autonomy, we know relatively little about the political ...
Sebastian Heidebrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Technocracy, Supranationalism and Right‐Wing Populism: The Variegated Sheltering of Western Assets in East Central European Countries

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) governance has become more tolerant towards national policy adaptation and experimentation. Right‐wing populist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have used this increased flexibility amongst other things to develop various economically nationalist strategies to reassert ...
Gerhard Schnyder, Andreas Nölke, Dorottya Sallai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source