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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
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The role of moral identity in ideological obsession and violent extremism
British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract This research examines how ideological passion shapes moral identity and support for political violence, drawing on the Dualistic Model of Passion to distinguish between obsessive (OP) and harmonious passion (HP). Across six studies with diverse ideological groups, OP consistently predicted the adoption of a villainous moral identity, whereas ...
Jocelyn J. Bélanger +3 more
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Economics &Politics, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 446-459, July 2026.ABSTRACT The electoral effects of natural disasters have gained increasing importance in recent research. This paper analyzes the impact of an unprecedentedly strong tornado on the electoral results of coalition government parties in the 2021 Czech general election.
Jakub Jusko, Peter Spáč
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 286-295, June 2026.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.This article analyses the experiences of using restorative practice of New Zealand school staff, from primary and secondary schools in the Wellington region. With data collected from 12 participants in semi‐structured qualitative interviews, it examines the barriers to restorative practice in New Zealand schools.
Claudia Murdoch, Ti Lamusse
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Modeling Determinants of Individual Punitiveness in a Late Modern Perspective: Data from Japan. [PDF]
Asian J Criminol, 2021 Mukai T +3 more
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 167-179, June 2026.ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 190-199, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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Gangs, violence, and fear: punitive Darwinism in El Salvador. [PDF]
Crime Law Soc Change, 2023 Rosen JD, Cutrona S, Lindquist K.
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