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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
wiley   +1 more source

Christian truth and political power in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
The novel Helena (1950) is analyzed as Evelyn Waugh’s profound statement on his most significant problems: the possibility to resolve the crises of the 20th-century consciousness through Christianity and on the nature of power.
Kabanova, Irina Valeryevna
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What is the relevance of Karl Popper's Critical Rationalism to Management Studies and Practice? Part one: Anti-authoritarianism

, 2010
This paper revisits some recent contributions on ‘Why Management Theory Needs Popper’ to the journal Philosophy of Management. It proposes that those discussions provided an appraisal of the relevance of Popper’s falsification schema to management theory,
Thomas, Rod
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

“For REASON […] is nothing but Reckoning” : the Postulates of Hobbes’s and Descartes’s Rationalism

Revue LISA, 2014
Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes are contemporary authors whose rationalistic approach means to emancipate science from theology. Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637) expound a method which is supposed to account for ...
Jean-Marc Chadelat
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
wiley   +1 more source

Why Social Egg Freezing for Single Women Should Not Be Prohibited: A Confucian Perspective

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beginning with a recent high‐profile case in mainland China, this paper argues that the current prohibition on social egg freezing for single women cannot be justified from a Confucian ethical perspective. We first explain why Confucian ethics provides a normatively appropriate and socially salient framework for evaluating reproductive policy ...
Rui Deng, Ruiping Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Creator or Tool? (To the Consciousness Origin) [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2017
The problem of subjective consciousness genesis is investigated: whether is it a product of creatively conceiving brain or of transcendental consciousness, external in relation to a brain. The consciousness is considered from positions of rationalism (in
Vladimir Gukhman
doaj  

From Assemblies to Institutions and Back Again? Cycles of Democracy and Representation in the Spanish Labour Movement

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in union renewal, worker voice and new forms of labour organisation, industrial relations scholarship has paid limited attention to assemblies as an organisational form in their own right. This article argues that assemblies constitute a historically recurring democratic repertoire through which workers negotiate the ...
Martí López‐Andreu
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source